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This is the second part of what I started last week. The purpose of this column, plainly stated, is to bring the white devil to his knees. Here's how we do…The Crop: Hitman The Studio: 20th Century Fox The Director: Xavier Gens The Producers: Luc… Continue reading
You might remember Adam Shankman from the anti-studio screed I hastily wrote up the other day. You might also remember him as the so-called director who tore open his anus and leaked out The Pacifier, A Walk to Remember, The Wedding Planner, Bringing Down the… Continue reading
I'm going to be completely honest with you guys: this brand new international trailer for Live Free or Die Hard ain't getting along with my Windows Media Player for some annoying reason. But this is a news site, and this is news for anyone who grew up in the… Continue reading
Warning: This review contains spoilers and a rampaging lemur. The tragic misperception of grindhouse movies, furthered by fusty film critics who prefer their entertainment wholly honorable and resoundingly stale, is that they are, first and foremost, bad,… Continue reading
In a column published on the ides of March 2007, the ever cantankerous editor-in-chief of Variety exploded a spray of buckshot into the hindquarters of the nation's elite film critics who'd been temerariously roasting the pandering likes of Norbit, Ghost… Continue reading
On the list of shit I'm not going to get worked up over, the impending remake of Adventures in Babybsitting ranks just below pro wrestling's human growth hormone scandal and the fact that the State of Idaho's Attorney General's office calls my land line every… Continue reading
Patrice Leconte is a masterful director of underwhelmingly perfect movies, and I've a feeling that this innocuousness is going to serve him well in the American market, though it doesn't appear he'll have much, if anything, to do with Hilary Swank's remake of… Continue reading
As if I weren't already looking forward to Death Proof enough, Variety is reporting that writer-director Quentin Tarantino is prepping an extended cut to perhaps screen in competition at Cannes. That his currently eighty-seven minute segment of Grindhouse has… Continue reading
This really isn't movie "news" per se, but once you've read these two stories – the first by The New York Post‘s Lou Lumenick and the second a supplemental anecdote of sorts posted to Livejournal by "moroccomole" – about the Fair Theater, New York… Continue reading
Hollywood conventional wisdom holds that it's been a rough last couple of years for Jim Carrey, which is pretty remarkable considering that he did star in a movie that made over $200 million worldwide. Unfortunately, that movie, Fun with Dick and Jane, was… Continue reading
As a means of introduction, here's an introduction: this is my new column. If you like it, I'll keep doing it. If you don't like it, I'll probably keep doing it until I don't like it. Thing is, I'm not sure if I like it right now, so maybe you'll like it, but… Continue reading
Hot off his '06-'07 Best Actor World Tour, Forest Whitaker has just booked what looks to be his fifth post-Last King of Scotland role in David Ayer's The Night Watchman, in which the hardest-working-survivor-of-Battlefield Earth-in-show-business will star… Continue reading
