Wednesday, March 26, 2008
An appreciation by Noah Mallin Richard Widmark was the paradoxical nice guy offscreen who played bigots (No Way Out, with Sidney Poitier), right-wing nutjobs (The Bedford Incident as a submarine commander on the brink of starting World War III) and a chilling giggling psychopath (in his breakthrough role in Kiss of Death.) Kiss of Death [...]
Friday, February 29, 2008
New Line, the former independent film studio founded 40 years ago by Bob Shaye, is being shuttered by corporate parent Warner Bros. The New Line label will still be used and its current slate of films will be released but it will no longer function as a separate entity. New Line started off distributing off [...]
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Hey it’s those two guys…and they’re in Hawaii! Judd Apatow has about 20 bajillion films coming out including Pineapple Express at the end of the Summer and Forgetting Sarah Marshall at the beginning in May. As you’ll see from the trailer, Marshall (which coincidentally stars Apatow’s former Freaks and Geek-ster Marshall from How I Met [...]
Friday, February 15, 2008
Paramount Pictures has issued a new trailer for Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull and it looks pretty damn good. Best of all is that Harrison Ford looks properly aged, like a good leather jacket. In other words, not juiced up like human growth hormone spokesperson Sly Stallone. View it for yourself:
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Juno: “I had no idea Chinese adoption was so easy — and so callous! Screw your American baby!” Because we are fast becoming a nation of oversensitive ninnies (apologies to all the ninnies out there) who can’t take a pimp joke, the SFGate online reports that some people are getting bent out of shape by [...]