What filmmaker would you choose to bring F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" (back) to the big screen? Scorsese? Spielberg? Fincher? Ratner? Well, Warner Bros. went with a pretty interesting choice in Baz Luhrmann, the visual lunatic who gave us Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, and Australia. (Did that last one ever hit […]
This past Saturday marked the Saturday Night Live season finale, as well as Kristen Wiig's final SNL appearance as a regular cast member. It was kind of a big deal, and so this week's after party (there's an after party after each new episode) was, as they'd say in party-speak, off the hook. A few videos are beginning to surface on YouTub […]
For months, if not years, the rumors were that Men in Black III was fated for disaster -- reportedly starting before a script was written, caught up in red tape as to whether or not Tommy Lee Jones would return to the franchise, with a multi-million budget that ballooned into the rumored range of $350 million like the national debt under Bush and so on and s […]
#612 CERTIFIED COPY (dir. Abbas Kiarostami) 2010. “Everything is true, and everything is invented.” - Juliette Binoche THE FILM (97 / 100) : Okay, so let’s just get the orgasmic platitudes out of the way up top: In my occasionally humble and typically perverse opinion, Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy is perhaps the best film of the last twenty years. Ind […]
Which Will Smith movie do you watch most often with your kids? (Please don’t say Bad Boys II, please don’t say Bad Boys II, please don’t say Bad Boys II…) I ask because even though he’s arguably the biggest star on the planet, my two sons -- ages 8 and 4 -- don’t have a Smith movie in heavy rotation. Hancock? Too surly. I, Robot and Enemy of the State […]
Check out what's new to rent and own this week on the various streaming services such as cable On Demand, Amazon, iTunes, Vudu, Blockbuster and, of course, Netflix. Cable On Demand Cable offers VOD programming (same-day-as-disc releases, older titles and pre-theatrical exclusives) for rent, usually for 24- or 48-hour periods at prices from about $2.99 f […]
Back in October we brought you news that Dutch director George Sluizer (The Vanishing) was in the process of completing production on his 1993 film Dark Blood, which came to an abrupt halt 10 days prior to the end of shooting due to the untimely death of its star, River Phoenix. Thus, the film was never released or heard about again until Sluizer decided to […]
When This Means War, about best friend spys (Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) who bring their gift for subterfuge into the dating world when they both fall for the same romantically-challenged gal (Reese Witherspoon), hit theaters, director McG (Terminator: Salvation, Charlie's Angels) revealed in an interview that at one time they had considered releasing two […]
We've been there: You're all settled in to watch your high-priced 3D movie at your local movie theater when someone near you is making noise. And they don't stop. You politely ask them to keep it down, and they refuse. From here the right thing to do would be to exit the theater, inform a manager and ask for a refund. However, one guy decided […]
Hot on the heels of the new poster that arrived yesterday come six -- count 'em six! -- new character posters for The Dark Knight Rises, three of which appear to be domestic and three international. The posters make it clear who the three lead characters are this time around, giving Batman (Christian Bale), Bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway) […]