Spike Lee vs. Italy — WHO YA GOT???

In stunning news from the world of moviemaking and International diplomacy, American filmmaker Spike Lee has managed to piss off Italy with his World War II movie, “The Miracle at St. Anna”. At issue is Lee and writer James McBride’s plotting of the film, which has an Italian partisan...

September 30th, 2008 | Read More

Samuel L. Jackson is King of the Motherf*&$ing World

Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio was pretty decent in James Cameron’s “Titanic”, and frankly, it’s hard to picture anyone else in the role now that the movie has gone on to gross, what, a bazillion dollars? But what IF someone else had played Jack Dawson? Someone like, say … Samuel...

September 11th, 2008 | Read More

The Man is Still Trying to Keep Spike Lee Down

Originally, when Spike Lee spoke up against the lack of black soldiers in World War II movies, igniting a feud with heavyweights the Coens and Clint Eastwood in doing so, you could almost pass it off as Lee doing what he does best — trying to get some free publicity for his own upcoming WWII movie...

September 11th, 2008 | Read More

Christian Bale Will Not be Charged for Assault

His mom and his older sister said he assaulted them while they were at a London hotel; he said he didn’t do it. And now the officials agree — with Bruce Wayne. A spokesman for the Crown Prosecution Service (which I guess is like the District Attorney over there or something — what am...

August 15th, 2008 | Read More

Celeb News: George Still Hates George, Paris is Shy, Iron Man Disses Batman, and Corey Feldman

These aren’t exactly Earth shattering celebrity movie news, but I found them kind of fun, but just not fun enough to devote an entire post to each one. So, I’ve clumped them together into a single Celeb News posting. We’ll start with George Clooney, who is gearing up another movie about...

August 13th, 2008 | Read More

UPDATE: Christian Bale Assault Case

I am posting this under the headline of, “Caveat Emptor”, as I never take these tabloid fodder stuff too seriously, but according to one of the biggest tabloid sites out there, TMZ, Christian Bale’s London assault-arrest case may be the result of familial jealousy, an attempted shakedown,...

July 24th, 2008 | Read More

Forbes Ultimate Star Payback List

When it comes to movie stars that are good deals, names like Angelina Jolie, Johnny Depp, George Clooney, and Brad Pitt immediately springs to mind. But according to Forbes magazine, while all four names mentioned above are indeed on their list of top movie stars that, on average, provides a nice return...

July 23rd, 2008 | Read More

Christian Bale Arrested in London for Assault – UPDATED

Damn, this is pretty disturbing news out of London. I wake up to hear that Christian Bale may or may not have been arrested (although it’s looking like he was arrested) on Tuesday for assaulting his mom and sister in a hotel. Yes, his mom and sister. Because London police policy is not to identify...

July 22nd, 2008 | Read More

Art Imitates Life: W. Cast Busted for Boozing and Bar Fighting

Oliver Stone’s “W” is about a President known for being not all that bright, and for, once upon a time, being a major boozer. The main character is played by Josh Brolin, who recently, along with co-star Jeffrey Wright and other members of the “W” cast, got themselves arrested...

July 14th, 2008 | Read More

Stan Winston: RIP 1946 – 2008

If you’ve ever watched movies, chances are you’ve probably seen the handiwork of special effects and make-up guru Stan Winston. Besides pioneering make-up special effects, Winston was the creator of some of cinema’s most timeless creatures, counting among them the Predator, the Terminator,...

June 16th, 2008 | Read More

Spike Lee to Clint Eastwood: Slave Owner Racist!

Spike Lee thinks Clint Eastwood is a slave owner, and shouldn’t be telling him to “shut his face”. Or at least, that’s what ABCNews.com reports Lee as saying, in reply to Eastwood’s previous comments, in regard to Lee’s racism-tinted accusations against Eastwood, via...

June 9th, 2008 | Read More

Clint Eastwood to Spike Lee: Shut Your Face

Clint Eastwood didn’t get old and all wrinkly and such by taking crap from people, especially midget filmmakers obsessed with basketball. He got to be where he is by kicking ass and ignoring names. As you’ll recall, bothersome filmmaker Spike Lee called out Eastwood and the Coens during a...

June 6th, 2008 | Read More

Is Brett Ratner the Next Uwe Boll? Directing God of War?

I swear, I haven’t seen this much hate directed at one man since, well, Uwe Boll came onto the scene. Fanboys really, really, REALLY don’t like Brett Ratner. I don’t know why myself; sure, he’s a middling filmmaker, and like Paul W.S. Anderson, he usually turns what should have...

May 29th, 2008 | Read More

Clint Eastwood Puts the Kibosh on a Dirty Harry Sequel

Straight from the horse’s mouth, kids: There will be no more “Dirty Harry” movies because, at his (Clint Eastwood’s) age, it wouldn’t make sense for him to still be on the police force. That’s according to Dirty Harry himself, who put the kibosh on any possibility...

May 21st, 2008 | Read More

Spike Lee Calls out the Coens and Eastwood

Wow, here’s a shocker: Spike Lee is not happy with a couple of his fellow Hollywood directors, and one reason involves race. The latest targets of the perennially wronged director is Clint Eastwood and the Coen Brothers. Lee took the opportunity to insult the award-winning directors during his...

May 21st, 2008 | Read More

Michael Bay is Awesome Again?

If you’ve been reading this site for the last month or two, you know that we’re pretty obsessed with gauging the awesomeness that is Michael Bay. Is he awesome? Is he less awesome today? Wow, he was really awesome last week! You know, that sort of stuff. Here’s another proof that Michael...

May 8th, 2008 | Read More

Awesome Re-Defined: Uwe Boll vs. Michael Bay Throwdown

I can’t be sure, but I’m pretty certain I’m developing something of a man crush on German director Uwe Boll. I used to hate the guy, like all of fandom, based on the fact that every one of his movies I’ve seen, I’ve hated. And of course, when all of fandom tells you that...

May 1st, 2008 | Read More

Is John Cusack a Douche? You Decide.

Wow, who would have thunk it: an actor who plays mostly good guys on the big screen turns out to be not so much in real life? Someone call the “Duh Police”! But seriously. Apparently John Cusack is a bit of a douche bag, at least according to Australian actor turned writer Paul Leyden, who...

April 27th, 2008 | Read More

Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years in Prison for Tax Evasion

Wesley Snipes fought the law and the law kicked him all over the place, then when they were done with him, slapped the “Blade” star with a 3-year prison stint for failing to file taxes from 1999 to 2001. This, after Snipes’ lawyers spent the entire day in court offering up character...

April 24th, 2008 | Read More

Michael Bay is Not so Awesome Anymore?

Like the guys over at Film School Rejects, I’ve always been a fan of Michael Bay, despite all the bitching people usually do about his style over substance, etc etc. The way I see it, you either like the man’s movies, or you don’t go see them. What’s there to complain about? In...

April 22nd, 2008 | Read More