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My Dinner With Herve - DA FILM! DA FILM!
Last October, Variety announced that Sacha Gervasi (Anvil! The Story of Anvil) was set to write and direct a biopic based on the life of Herve Villechaize, Ricardo Montalban's assistant, Tattoo, on Fantasy Island. Gervasi conducted the last interview with …
Phew!
Good thing Marks got that Texas Chainsaw Massacre post up; it was starting to get mighty Jesus-y up in here. Let me help bring the tone down a notch with this excerpt from Jeffrey Sconce's Sleaze Artists: Cinema at the …
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to get 3-D Leatherface-lift
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Tobe Hooper's ultra low budget 1974 horror opus, has generated three sequels, a remake, a prequel, a video game, and countless imitations, as well as holding the dubious distinction of giving rise to the foulest genre …
One last thing.
One more word on Christian movies and I'll stop. (Maybe we can talk about Tyler Perry next!) This trailer for Courageous ran before Soul Surfer. It's from the makers of Fireproof, which was not a movie so much as an …
Comment: Soul Surfer
“You give and take away/You give and take away/Still I choose to say/Blessed be Your name.” That’s a line from the song that gets sung during the Sunday morning church scene near the beginning of Soul Surfer, and it’s a …
Review: Soul Surfer
Bethany Hamilton made national headlines on October 31, 2003 when a 14-foot tiger shark bit off the 13-year-old Hawaiian surfer’s arm. Instead of having its world premiere on the Christian Broadcasting Network, this faith-based biopic erroneously found its way to …
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver decide to terminate marriage?
Just two weeks after the royal wedding (and their 25th wedding anniversary), America's power couple, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, have decided to separate. It was a union of opposing political parties and many were shocked that the marriage lasted …
The story of a boy, a girl, and a universe...
Oh, Lordy. "Somewhere in space, this may all be happening right now" is a long, long way from "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..." For me, the most interesting thing about this godawful trailer is the …
Thor Minimalist Movie Poster: Who Did It Better?
I'm a big fan of minimalist movie posters. This one, Ibrahim Youssef's Kill Bill Vol. 2 is flat-out amazing, don't you think? Yeah, you need to have seen the film to really get the reference, but if you hadn't seen …
Q&A with Hesher director Spencer Susser
I’m thirteen years old and Groucho Marx is coming to Evanston, Illinois to perform “An Evening With“ at Northwestern University. Nothing will keep me away. A friend’s older brother and one of his fellow upperclassmen offer to drop the two …
Double Features from Hell: Flipper and The Manchurian Candidate
I've been spending far too much time on Google Newspapers pouring through back editions in search of vintage movie ads. Dig deep enough and you will eventually hit paydirt. This ad from the June 9, 1963 edition of The Lakeland …
SeaWorld ushers in new motion picture division
It's not just about theme parks and penguin cams anymore as the newly formed SeaWorld Pictures today announced the hatching of “Turtle: The Incredible Journey.” The 3D family documentary is directed by "National Geographic Explorer’s" Nick Stringer. The 81-minute-long feature …