I’d heard that Craig’s List was a good place to find a “masseuse” but how about this ad seeking another sort of hand job: Attention Film Critics (Los Angeles): “Hi. We just finished a film and need to buy a one sentence quote from someone who calls himself a film critic. Thanks.” Happy ending for Roger Freidman? ...
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Believing they had come to see 1982′s Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, fans at the the Alamo Draft House in Austin last night got an early look at the J.J. Abrams reboot. EW reports: …the reactions range from wildly ecstatic to only barely less ecstatic. On his AICN site, Austin’s blogging poobah Harry Knowles dedicated about 40,000 words to the screening,...
Ron Weasley, all grown. Gryffindodgy or Gryffindishy? IMDb: Cherry Bomb follows teenagers Luke, Malachy, and Michelle as they embark on a wild weekend of drink, drugs, shop-lifting and stealing cars. But what starts out as a game turns deadly serious when the three discover that they can’t get off the wild ride they’ve set in motion… …as the...
Everyone is linking today to an interview with Avatar star, Laz Alonso, on collider.com, and everyone is humping on the same couple of paragraphs: Christina Radish: What can you say about the film and who you play in it? Laz Alonso: Unfortunately, I can’t say anything because that was part of what we signed. None of us are allowed to talk at all about the script...
Warner Bros. has picked up ‘Dumped,’ a comedy based on Andrew Gottlieb’s novel ‘Drink, Play, F@#k’ as a vehicle for Steve Carrell. The book is a spin on the self-realization memoir, Eat, Pray, Love — but of course when it comes to fucking in ads, the marketing mantra is Flinch, Ban, Shush, so the terrific title had to go. The premise...
Writer-Director-Actress Rebecca Milller discusses writing, directing and acting, and touches on her worst fears. (You had me at, “a deep anarchic void inside of us.” Happy Monday!) Miller adapted Proof for the screen, and most recently directed The Ballad of Jack and Rose (sensitive, literate, under-appreciated). Opeing in Europe before it appears here,...