The marketing for Pixar’s Wall-E has been superb thus far. They’ve managed to control who saw the film first (which always devolves into a pissing contest) and I have been wondering for a while now about why they were doing this – why was it not being seen by everyone and what were they hiding? Well, Devin Feraci at CHUD may be onto something when he...
Monthly Archives: June 2008
A Viggo-Works.com has turned some production photos of the new Ed Harris-directed movie Appaloosa. Harris was last seen directing the biopic Pollock, about the life of the troubled abstract painter for which Marcia Gay Harden won the Oscar in an upset. Appaloosa is taken from a novel and is described this way: Two friends hired to police a small town that is suffering...
“These individuals are all incredibly talented and a credit to the world of filmmaking,” said Academy President Sid Ganis. “They exemplify the high standards of the Academy and I welcome each and every one of them to our ranks.” The membership policies that the Academy adopted in 2004 in order to slow the growth of the organization would have allowed...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiMqzVeftww[/youtube] What can I say? I’m enamored, enthralled, and entranced by Mary-Louise Parker. Hotness on a stick. Contrasting Nancy Botwin’s slouching grace with the pent-up anxieties of Type-A control freaks, Salon.com’s Heather Havrilesky gives us her typically offbeat slant on Weeds, Season 4. Her sharp...
Apple has posted a beautiful looking Benjamin Button trailer, chock full o’ great shots of Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. Last year it seemed like Pitt and Angelina Jolie were headed for the Oscars, didn’t it? It again seems like it this year, with Pitt very likely up against, oh, say Benicio Del Toro in Che (should that movie ever get released here), and...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeSSwKffj9o[/youtube] George Carlin was 29 when Lenny Bruce died in 1966 — the same year he recorded his debut album, Take Offs and Put Ons. He picked up the comedic blaze of scathing social commentary Lenny Bruce had lit, and for the next 42 years George Carlin torched the fucking joint. The world is gonna feel way too chill...