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Jack Valenti, hero and villain to the American film industry, died today at the age of eighty-five, three years after releasing his viselike grip on the Motion Picture Association of America. I hope he enjoyed his brief retirement, but I'll hazard a guess and… Continue reading
One of the most intriguing films of 2005 is shaping up to be one of the most promising remakes of 2008. Yes, even better than All of Me. Susanne Bier's Brothers (fancy Dutch title: Brødre) was a punishing tale of a family torn apart by the return of a… Continue reading
The depressing irony of Adam Shankman producing an All of Me remake with Queen Latifah in the Lily Tomlin role is that I guarantee you their number one choice for the Steve Martin role is Steve Martin. Desperately searching for a new Peter Jackson after Bob… Continue reading
The Crop: The Dirty Dozen The Studio: Warner Brothers The Director: ? The Producers: Joel Silver The Writer: Scott Rosenberg, Andre Nemec and Josh Applebaum The Actors: None attached. The Premise: The journalist daughter of a supermarket magnate gets… Continue reading
Hey, America! Hollywood thinks you're all fucking idiots! Want to prove them wrong? Awesome. Don't go see Old Dogs next year when it passes through your local megaplex like last night's Olive Garden. Because you're inured to the implied insult of studio… Continue reading
Slyvia Plath's The Bell Jar, the book that makes every guy cringe when they find it adorning a female conquest's bookshelf, is getting dragged out of women's lit class again, this time by Julia Stiles and the Plum Pictures trio of Galt Niederhoffer, Celine… Continue reading
Undeterred by his association with The Last Mimzy, Rainn Wilson, best known as the socially awkward Dwight Schrute from The Office, is bravely forging ahead with his big screen acting career, and may very well have found a pair of worthy collaborators in Mark… Continue reading
When Nick Frost celebrates his birthday, hotel toilets are put to the test. Deport this man now before we're neck deep in backed-up torte. The floating cigarette butt in the second video is a classy touch. For more of the same… go see Hot Fuzz in… Continue reading
This headline is completely misleading. Unlike nearly everyone I know, I rather enjoyed Scott Smith's The Ruins, the incredibly bleak follow-up novel to his equally bleak A Simple Plan. Though the book doesn't quite do "for vacations in Mexico what Jaws did… Continue reading
Though I personally get a kick out of driving easily flippable SUVs, it's my understanding that most of the country would rather keep all four wheels fixed firmly to the road*. One such person is Donna Bailey, a single mother who was nearly killed when her… Continue reading
That three-year break the Coens took between The Ladykillers and No Country for Old Men must've been quite the bracer. Principal photography is still a few months away on Burn After Reading, and, already, the brothers have lined up their third post-hiatus… Continue reading
Would you believe "The Script Stinks"? Actually, I'm not sure I would. Though IESB, the site currently running neck-and-neck with the hard-charging Collider for this year's "Oh, Don Piano!" trophy (carefully judged by our own Devin Faraci), is citing… Continue reading
