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Judd Apatow to Jerry Lewis: "'F@&# You!"
Jerry Lewis deserves every insult people throw his way in retaliation for telling the crowd at a 2000 comedy festival, “I don’t like any female comedians.” It's a slap in the face to Lucy, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Lisa Lampanelli, …
"We’ve Never Had the John Wayne Treatment"
That's Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder, swooning over the George Lucas-produced Red Tails, a film about the Tuskegee Airmen. The full quote reads like this: "This movie kind of represents the last barrier of equality for the black fighting man. We’ve …
Colorado Man Dies in Multiplex Bathroom, Body Not Found for FIVE Days
Have you ever noticed a small clipboard hanging in the entryways of movie theatre lavatories? There is a checklist attached to the portable writing surface for theatre employees to initial while making their hourly bathroom rounds. It took the crack …
The Disappearing Golden Globes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_OnK0SrtC8 So Ricky Gervais brought his acid wit and razor tongue to the Golden Globes last night... Why the hangdog look, Mr. Gervais? Oh, dear. Well, I'm sure they can't have got far... Hm. Well, better luck next time.
Golden Globe Awards Live Blog
Marty is there. Let's do it! Ricky Gervais is so concerned with referencing his own irreverence he forgot to be funny. When did Johnny Depp get the faux British accent? And in case you're wondering why a star of his …
Join in The Big Screen's Live Golden Globes Blog Tomorrow Night
If I'm going to watch the poor man's Oscars, it might as well be on company time. Join me tomorrow night for The Big Screen's first live blog. (Expect more of the same on Oscar Sunday.) I'll be bivouacked at …
Latest Dark Knight photo is, um...
Well, see for yourself. Gotham I'm in Gotham And the plans I made to rain chaos from above Seem to vanish in a snowy fog of love When we're out together, dancing hand in glove... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeisCvjwBMo
Reviews!
Reader critic John Rubio has the Captain's chair today, and our first destination is...France! Land of wine, food, and conservative politicians in the middle of simultaneous messy divorces and political campaigns! Rubio says the film creates a "thematic paradox that …
David Elliott on The Big Screen: A Review of The Iron Lady
Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome lead movie critic David Elliott as he crosses the Great Digital Divide and presents this Internet-only review of The Iron Lady: Some iron was lost by filming Margaret Thatcher through a glass darkly. As the …
Part 3 of A Closer Look at the Clip from Red Tails
aka Cuba Gooding Jr.'s Master Class in Pipe Insertion.
There Is Something Haywire About Releasing the First 5 Minutes of Haywire
Earlier in the week, Matt mentioned the internet debut of the opening 5 minutes to Haywire, arriving January 20 at a megaplex near you. (The reviewing duty falls on my watch leaving Br'er Lickona to sink his fangs in Underworld.) …
At last.
Remember Ricky Gervais? Razor-sharp wit, often used for self-evisceration - and by extension, the evisceration of all showbiz, the very world he inhabited? I'm talking about Extras, of course: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv6mEv_rDdE Bloody brilliant. Yeah, that Ricky Gervais is gone. He's thinner …
Anthropomorphic Yidlach? Only at This Year's San Diego Jewish Film Festival!
The San Diego Jewish Film Festival rolled out its 2012 lineup and it includes an event to end all events: a Jews in Toons seminar! No, not Jews in Tune (who can afford Streisand?), but an evening dedicated to celebrating …
Part 2 of A Closer Look at the Clip for Red Tails
Okay, let's continue our look at Red Tails. Specifically, let's ask ourselves why George Lucas would decide to take on a producer role on a project like this one. Go ahead and watch the rest of that initial train attack …
A Closer Look at the Clip from Red Tails
Oh, man. So much to see here. But let's take it slow, baby. We've got time. Beginning, then, at the beginning, in which the Tuskegee airmen attack a train. Just the first 30 seconds or so. http://vimeo.com/34818823 Okay, first thing. …
They Should Have an Oscar for Best Credits
So I'm sure everybody knows the story about how an enterprising soul went and made some credits for the Tintin movie, which credits somehow made their way onto director Steven Spielberg's online video playback device and subsequently got the animator …
The Continuing and Ever-Expanding Wonder of YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIURYDKfSvg&feature=relmfu Apparently, Two Thousand Maniacs is the picture for which H.G. "Godfather of Gore" Lewis would like to be remembered. And so naturally, it's available on YouTube. Along with The WIzard of Gore and The Gore Gore Girls. Oh, and …
Shinebox TV? AMC Readies Goodfellas: The Series
You gotta' be kidding me. A television series based on Goodfellas coming to American Movie "Classics?" During their commercially-interrupted airings of Marty's 1990 masterwork, the profanity is either bleeped or replaced with something close, like "freaking" or "shoot." Why not …
Haywire: The First Five Minutes
See, if you become a big enough deal in Hollywood -- a slick enough director, an arty enough auteur -- you can make something that looks like a student film with oddly well-trained fighters and everybody will say Hooray. Me …
Better Than All Six Episodes of Star Wars Combined!
Q: What do you get when you combine Spielberg's lisp, Lucas' chins, and Carrie Fisher's mammary glands? A: Jabba the Nut! Thanks to my friend, former student, and eternal teacher Ward Porrill for slapping this on my Facebook wall. You …