If you enjoy the halting, semi-detached, half-ironic, superior snark-enese spoken by that “endearingly off-beat” and shockingly pale woman who runs the Kubrick-ian retail store that serves as the set for those Progressive Insurance commercials, you might make it through “Easy
What’s not to love about Hollywood? They know exactly what the American people are looking for in a thriller: negative commentary about a war we’re presently engaged in. And it’s not just that we American moviegoers are absolutely panting for
The television ads comparing “The Town” to “Heat” and “The Departed” are more than a little misleading. Though it does have its moments, director/co-writer Ben Affleck’s sophomore effort is nowhere near as operatic as “Heat,” and unlike “The Departed,” this
—– Jonah Goldberg put it best: Oh, Dear Lord. The musical debuted in Germany back in January: Barack Obama and his dramatic ascent to power has inspired a raft of books and articles. Now a German musical is set to
Character actor Harold Gould is probably best known for his showy turn as the dapper Kid Twist in “The Sting,” Rhoda Morgenstern’s father in both the “Mary Tyler Moore Show” and later “Rhoda,” and his recurring role as a suitor
Just two months after the murderous attacks of September 11th and on behalf of the Bush administration, Karl Rove went to left-wing Hollywood to meet with top entertainment executives in the hopes of enlisting them to help with America’s war
This, the fourth entry into one of my favorite ongoing film franchises, more than does the job in satisfying those of us who count the days to the next chapter documenting the post-apocalyptic adventures of Alice (Milla Jovovich) as she
As a teenager watching “The Snake Pit” on the Late Late Show some thirty years ago (probably on a school night), this is the scene that hit hardest. At the time, because teenagers don’t know shit, I took the song
According to yesterday’s Hollywood Reporter (more below the fold), even though actor James Brolin might have attempted to forever cement the world’s memory of Ronald Reagan as a “shallow thinker, indecisive, lost in the past and easily manipulated” through the
UPDATE: Gawker also wonders if Jay Leno was in on the “joke”: After Louis C.K.’s drunken ‘twitter rampage’ in which he called Sarah Palin a “C*nt-Face Jazzy Wonder Girl”, we were surprised at the little amount of fanfare that erupted
Do the math. Instead of someone with the last name Rodriguez telling the tale of noble, sympathetic Hispanics victimized by white American southern rednecks — all of whom are portrayed as murderous racists, what if we had a white filmmaker
Director Robert Rodriguez’s spoof trailer for “Machete” was easily the best part of his and Quentin Tarantino’s failed attempt to return to those glorious days of early ’70s exploitation flicks with 2007’s “Grindhouse.” And it made sense that the fan
—– First off, David Letterman should never feel the need to remind us he’s ignorant. And good for Donald Trump, who hits the nail on the head when he says that the Ground Zero Mosque builders would engender a tremendous
At a gut level most left-wing environmentalists know that they’re liars. Intellectually they might have somehow convinced themselves that Mother Earth is in some sort of man-made peril, but deep down inside where the truth won’t be denied, these liars
Yes, I know. This post is a few weeks late. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to see everything as soon as it comes out and only caught up with “Salt” and “Eat Pray Love” this last week. So please
Here’s a handy-dandy guide to help track the excuses James Cameron’s used to cluck-cluck-cluck his way out of two (that we know of) global cooling global warming climate change debates – debates the director himself requested (through his proxy Richard
—– “Narrated by Matt Damon.” Yawn. Did anyone hear the words Freddie or Fannie in that clip? How about toxic mortgages. Community Reinvestment Act. ACORN? No you did not. Don’t misunderstand me, I’m no Wall Street fan, and Obama bailing
—– Hollywood A-listers avoiding Obama at fundraisers, Jon Stewart declaring the Race Card maxed out, and now the President’s number-one Late Night Palace Guard sees that he has no other choice other than to point to the vacationing elephant in
Like 1999’s “Blair Witch Project” and 2007’s “Paranormal Activity,” “The Last Exorcism” (which opens everywhere this Friday) effectively utilizes the concept of a single camera pseudo-documentary style to tell the story of Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian), a fire and brimstone
If nothing else, you have to give the entertainment media credit for its inability to hit bottom. There is no low low enough for these people and just when you think they can’t possibly sink any lower, somehow they always
To meet audience expectations — better still, to fully satisfy those expectations, a good filmmaker comes to terms with the fact that their primary job is to understand and appreciate the storytelling target they’ve been charged with hitting. Whatever the
You might call him Governor Moonbeam, but I prefer Governor Double Dip, and there’s nothing harmlessly moonbeamy and charmingly hippie dippie about his doing business with Jode Evans, co-founder of the obnoxious anti-American group Code Pink and someone with a
Only in present-day Hollywood would a filmmaker have to try and cut off the media-created narrative that his creation was too patriotic. And it was this article written by left-winger Steven Zeitchik of the L.A. Times that created the kerfuffle
There are three important things going on in “The Tillman Story” (in selected theatres today), two of which almost make the conspiracy-mongering documentary worth your time. The first and best is the opportunity to get to know better the extraordinary
