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After 31 Years, Miramax Films is No More
Although it comes to no surprise to those who have followed the slow decline of the company over the past few years, The Wrap is reporting today that Miramax Films, founded by The Brothers...
Read More »Charlize Theron And David Fincher Join Forces To Hunt Serial Killers
Charlize Theron And David Fincher are digging in to produce “Mind Hunter, for HBO and Fox 21, based on the book “Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit,” by John Douglas and...
Read More »Seth Rogen And Michelle Williams Sign For Take This Waltz
Seth Rogen (“Superbad”, “Knocked Up”) And Michelle Williams (“Brokeback”, “Shutter Island”) are about to star in the Sarah Polley directed feature “Take This Waltz”, based on her own script. “Take This Waltz” made the...
Read More »Five Ways To Improve The Theatrical Experience
I go to a lot of movies. There’s nothing like a big screen, big sound presentation. Because I am childish, I must usually see a movie I’m interested in within a day of it’s...
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Alec Baldwin Quits While He’s Ahead
“I consider my entire movie career a complete failure,” says Alec Baldwin, the man who has just about acted in more films, sixty-five, than ER has episodes. The quote is taken by Reuters from...
Read More »Nicolas Cage is Broke aka This Explains a Lot, Doesn’t it?
Nicolas Cage does, on average, 4 movies a year, and he’s usually got 4 more in the pipeline. You can usually count on 3 of the 4 ranging in quality from Godawful to “meh”,...
Read More »Martin Scorsese Imparts the Knowledge of His Craft to Younger Filmmakers
Cinematic evolution – the ability to take what has come before and advance it – is rarely a direct or strictly generational process. Filmmakers will usually have their own personal epiphanies in solitude, while...
Read More »Bronson Pinchot Opens Up About Life and Co-Stars
I admit that I do like a good public disclosure. It’s cathartic, in a way; perhaps not for the stars, but for my perceptions of them. I don’t know if there’s any backlash for...
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Okay, Who Replaced Megan Fox with a Stepford Robot, and When Can we have the Real One Back?
You know the best part about Megan Fox? She’s 23 years old and she hasn’t learned the concept of filters or even what “burning bridges” mean just yet. It’s not her fault, really; the...
Read More »Everything You’d Ever Want to Know About James Cameron
Avatar always seemed to me an odd film with which to attempt to foment a 3D revolution. On paper, it is the antithesis of a mainstream hit. And yet James Cameron has always had...
Read More »Never Before Seen Interview With Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock expressed himself simply and slowly and yet was eminently emotive. I’ve heard many impressions of the man – they are easy to do – but they always leave out his soul. That...
Read More »Tarantino Discusses What’s to Come After Basterds
Quentin Tarantino has already discussed his plans for Kill Bill 3, but 2014 is still five years away, giving him time to direct one more film in between. Variety reports that Tarantino shared some...
Read More »Well, At Least his Criminal Characters Will be More Authentic From Now on
Oscar winner or not, Roger Avary is about to do a full year in prison, with a 5-year probation period after pleading guilty to manslaughter charges back in August. The entire ordeal stems from...
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Brett Ratner Desires to Make Sequel to Roman Polanski Documentary
“Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired” is a film that methodically documents the director’s famous trial nearly thirty years later and the way in which it transformed into a scene out of one of his...
Read More »I Saw A Bunny: R.I.P. Henry Gibson
I was incredibly saddened to learn this week that Henry Gibson, “Laugh-In” favorite and an extremely versatile character actor, passed away on Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 73. Gibson, who I...
Read More »If You Could Ask James Cameron One Question, What Would it Be?
Because Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (who has appeared on such shows as “The Colbert Report” and “NOVA Science Now”), like the man who asks the genie for an ice cream sundae, would waste not...
Read More »R.I.P. Patrick Swayze (1952-2009)
Can’t say as if I’ve been following Patrick Swayze’s recent trials and tribulations, especially his fight with cancer. Celebrity tabloid stuff like that bores me, and I never want to be one of those...
Read More »Oh Snap! Megan Fox Says Michael Bay is Like Hitler, Only Socially Retarded
You gotta figure that no one has ever told Megan Fox to “Shut the F— up” at least once in her life, right? If you’ve seen pictures of her from high school, you realize...
Read More »R.I.P. John Hughes: 1950 – 2009
Sad news from the world of Hollywood, with news that director John Hughes, most famous for his High School-set teen dramedys of the 1980s like “Breakfast Club”, “Sweet Sixteen”, and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”,...
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Seth Rogen Recounts his Megan Fox Diss
Now this is funny. To be perfectly honest with you, I’m not the biggest fan of Seth Rogen. Okay, I kind of think he’s overrated and giving him The Green Hornet to star, produce,...
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