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Writers Strike Set for Monday
It’s official, folks, Hollywood writers are set to walk the picket line on Monday, tomorrow. This means film and TV writers will walk off the job (or actually, just not go to work) in...
Read More »Hollywood Writers Strike Update
I have to tell you, every time I hear about the impending Hollywood writers strike, my eyes start glossing over. I can’t decide whose side I’m on, or if I’m even on anyone’s side....
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Nicolas Cage in Muslim Drama The Vanished
You can call Nicolas Cage a lot of things, but “lazy” isn’t one of them. The star of “Next”, who has just wrapped the Pang Brothers’ remake of their own movie “Bangkok Dangerous”, is...
Read More »Michelle Rodriguez Gets 180 Days in Jail for Probation Violations
We’re used to seeing Michelle Rodriguez play tough characters in the movies, girls who don’t take crap from anyone, but real life is another story. Reuters reports that Rodriguez (“Lost”, “Resident Evil”) has been...
Read More »The Warner Bros./Movies with Female Leads Debacle Continues
Oh boy, I bet Warner Bros’ Jeff Robinov is regretting that he ever woke up and put pen to paper when he (reportedly) put out the decree that Warner would no longer make movies...
Read More »Uwe Boll: If You’re Going to Bash Me, Pronounce My Name Correctly!
There is really no movie news value to this post, but I just love posting anything about German filmmaking wunderkind Uwe Boll. I can’t help it; any news, nevermind how minor, about this guy,...
Read More »Die Hard’s John McTiernan Sentenced to Fed Prison for 4 Months
Oh boy. It looks like action director John McTiernan needs a little help from his pal John McClane, because the big-time Hollywood director has found himself in a bit of a pickle. That is,...
Read More »The Wachowski Brothers is No More — Larry Becomes Lana
This is interesting. There’s no real movie movie news here, but since the Wachowski Brothers are such giants in the movie business, something as monumental as one of the brothers no longer becoming, well,...
Read More »Did Owen Wilson Attempt Suicide?
Wow, this is a major shock. Apparently actor Owen Wilson (“Shanghai Knights”, “You, Me, and Dupree”) may or may not have attempted suicide (no one has confirmed or deny that part yet), but what...
Read More »John Singleton Struck and Killed Woman with SUV
Friday was a bad day for John Singleton. The “Boyz in the Hood” director accidentally struck a woman with his SUV when the woman failed to use a designated crosswalk while trying to cross...
Read More »Steven Seagal vs. the FBI — WHO YA GOT???
You won’t like Stevie Seagal when he’s mad, and the FBI has made Stevie boy mad. Steven Seagal says the FBI ruined his career, and turned him from an A-list Hollywood star making millions...
Read More »Worst Action Movie Cliches
It’s funny, but I’ve actually started writing an article similar to this one (“Worst” this and that lists), but I’ve never finished one. I think it’s because, as I write them, I get really...
Read More »RIP Michaelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman
(Article by Yorgo Douramacos) An event passed this week in the world of film, comparable to the impact felt in patriotic and political circles over the simultaneous passings of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams...
Read More »No Japanese Release for Evan Almighty
Well this is a bit of a surprise. Apparently Steve Carell’s “Evan Almighty” won’t get the September release that it was supposed to in Japan. In fact, the studio has canceled all future releases...
Read More »Movie Preview: Albert Pyun’s Bulletface
I know people who hates Albert Pyun with a passion. I don’t know why, I never understood it, because unlike another much-hated director (cough*Uwe Boll*cough), Pyun has done a couple of movies that I...
Read More »Oliver Stone Gets Pwned by Iran’s Ahmadinejad Over Doc
You gotta love it, don’t you? Oliver Stone has become such a self-hating American piece of shit that he’ll even go so far as to make a love letter to Fidel Castro, a leader...
Read More »I Call Bullshit on the AFI’s Best 100 American Films List
This list is yet another reason why the average moviegoer thinks professional movie critics are full of crap. In their three-hour CBS special “100 Years, 100 Movies, 10th Anniversary Edition” telecast, the American Film...
Read More »Die Hard Tops Best Action Movie Ever List
Just in time for the fourth entry into the never say die franchise (har har, get it?), 1988′s “Die Hard” was voted by the editors and writers of Entertainment Weekly as the Best Action...
Read More »Canadian Author Sues Judd Apatow for Stealing Knocked Up Idea
I don’t think anyone saw Judd Apatow’s romantic comedy “Knocked Up” doing so well at the box office, and I suspect no one saw this lawsuit by Canadian author Rebecca Eckler coming, either. Eckler...
Read More »New Line Cinema vs. Everyone Who Worked on the Lord of the Rings Movie – WHO YA GOT???
Coming on the heels of “Lord of the Rings” writer/director/guru Peter Jackson suing New Line Cinema for stealing his just-earned money (and come on, who doesn’t think the big guy earned it? He spent...
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