Doug Jones Eyes Elven King Role For ‘The Hobbit’ Doug Jones wants you to know that he would play a hemorrhoid in a Guillermo del Toro film if asked, that he would follow the visionary “Hellboy” director anywhere he chooses to go. Doug Jones also wants you to know that he hopes that includes “The […]
Disney Unveils BD Live For Blu-Ray…Or Why ‘High School Musical’ Just Got Even Cooler Attention “High School Musical” fans…your Zac Efron parties are about to getting a little more exciting. That’s because Disney is set to launch something called the Disney BD Live Network, coming soon to a Blu-ray player near you. The free service […]
Journalist Starts Blog; Earth Spins Off Axis, Universe Explodes. A journalist starts blogging; bloggers go apoplectic. Also: novice blogger Peter Bart still talking shit about blogs.
When I read that Patrick Goldstein, author of the L.A. Times column The Big Picture, was launching a new blog under the auspices of the paper, I didn’t think it […]
Felon Fest: Notes on Camp Steven Boone on Susan Sontag: “She didn’t know shit.”
Every time a DVD player breaks, we have a panic. How to watch the stack of movies I, Hef and Kid scavenge several times a week from the Mid-Manhattan and Brooklyn Central libraries? Without our movies, what have we got? A bunch […]
Dreamworks’ Bought-and-Paid-For Freedom. Trade Roughage 06/26/08 Though they’ve been carefully tasteful about the use of grotesque images of Heath Ledger in the marketing of The Dark Knight domestically, Warner Brothers execs say the actor’s death “had not altered the marketing of the pic internationally.” The film had an Imax premiere at CinemaExpo this week. […]
Mark Wahlberg On ‘Departed’ Sequel: ‘I’m Not Interested In Going For The Paycheck’ Last year, Mark Wahlberg let slip to MTV News that the talent behind “The Departed” (namely director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter William Monahan, both Oscar winners for the film) were hard at work on both a sequel AND a prequel to the […]
Cyd Charisse Dies at 86 Why didn’t Cyd Charisse––who died in Los Angeles on Tuesday at the age of 86––ever fully become the Ginger Rogers to Gene Kelly’s Fred Astaire? To compare Charisse directly to Rogers would be unfair; the former was an athletic show-stopper who regularly held down solos seemingly designed to draw […]
Kate Beckinsale Seeks ‘Truth’ As Reporter, Finds Jail To Protect Source Interviewing the lovely Kate Beckinsale is always a treat, but we never expected that she might appreciate our chats as much as we do. The “Underworld” star recently charmed us by extolling the common ground between actors and journalists: “There are so many similar […]
Movie Downloads Taking Off. Trade Roughage 06/20/08 Apple is on track to triple sales and rentals of movies on iTunes this year. Their business got a shot in the arm when they began selling new releases early last month, enabling untold numbers of McConaughey addicts to get their Fool’s Gold fix on the go. […]
10 Awful Matrix “Bullet Time” Spoofs The new film Wanted seems like a Matrix ripoff. But it could be worse. It could be yet another lame Matrix parody.
When I first saw the trailer for Wanted, I figured it was just another Matrix ripoff. And I’m sure there are many other people who thought the same […]