It was inevitable. The most shameless actor the U.S. partners with the most shameless actor in the U.K. Ever since Sacha Baron Cohen’s flaky, flowery Frenchman Jean Girard broke the arm – and then kissed – Will Ferrell’s Ricky Bobby, these guys were bound to reunite. Yesterday, Columbia Pictures officially announced Cohen and Ferrell will team up to play Sherlock Holmes […]
Ever since Moulin Rouge and Chicago, the movie-musical revival just keeps on rolling along (oh snap! bad musical joke!) Since the most recent hit was the movie adaptation of a Broadway musical based on a non-musical movie (Hairspray), it was about time for a movie adaptation of a musical based completely on ABBA songs. Whew…
In the past couple of years, HBO has offered plenty of programming focused on the Iraq War, nearly all of them painful documentaries: Baghdad Hospital, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Alive Day Memories.
Now the network takes the narrative approach with the seven-part series Generation Kill, based on the first 40 days of the war as seen by […]
While WALL-E continues being hailed the new standard for animation excellence, today’s movie poster is for an alternative animated style: rotoscoping, in which live action footage is “traced” over. The film is Year of the Fish, a Sundance 2007 selection and festival favorite from Boston to Dallas to San Francisco.
Rotoscoping results in a type of “animated […]
What’s more uncomfortable than being a 12-year-old? How about being a 12-year-old preparing for a Bar Mitzvah? Wait, it gets worse. Your Bar Mitzvah is the same day as a major event that has the country in its grip. This is Sixty Six, a 2006 production finally getting a U.S. theatrical release August 1 from First Independent. (click […]
Just wanted to catch everyone up on more goodies from the buzz-nutty Coen Brothers’ dark comedy, Burn After Reading. Clooney, Pitt, McDormand, Malkovich, Swinton… Imagine if these hacks could recruit some real quality talent?!
Brad Pitt and his greatest wardrobe accessory, 1990s hair
George Clooney and Frances McDormand at a Fargo screening (not really)
Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich!
The pillows […]
