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KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando Hosting Alexander "Bring The" Payne* Retrospective, Starting Tonight
Starting tonight, KPBS Film Critic Beth Accomando and Reading Cinemas are joining forces to build buzz for director Alexander Payne's upcoming feature, The Descendants (starring George Clooney!) by hosting a four-night retrospective of Payne's previous films. The series kicks off …
Brett Ratner Fun Time IV: Lindsay Lohan Edition
The man is on fire. [Relevant section begins at around 9:50 mark of first video.] Related.
Brett Ratner Fun Time III: Director of 2012 Oscars promises totally unscripted telecast!
"I'm picturing a huge banner across the back of the stage, very stark, just black letters on a white background: 'Rehearsal is for fags.'"
Brett Ratner Fun Time II: Plus Ca Change...
Frankly, Ratner wins on economy of expression. The coffee bit just seems superfluous in comparison. Source [language alert!] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AXTx4PcKI
Brett Ratner Fun Time: Deja Vu Edition
Before the Tower Heist director made his unfortunate statement and subsequent apology, he went through a similar experience on the set of X-Men: Last Stand. Related.
NBC Eyes Munsters Reboot
It can't be any worse than The Munsters Today, the mercifully ill-fated 1987 syndicated attempt to reassemble the family. Even John Schuck's furrowed brow and malleable jaw, so well put to use as the Painless Pole in Altman's MASH*, were …
De Niro to Play Bernie Madoff in TV Movie
Robert De Niro had a lot in common with Bernie "I Screwed Spielberg" Madoff. For the past 15 years, Bobby D. has made off with bushels of moviegoers money in exchange for dirt like Stardust, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Hide and …
The Title or Trailer Game 2: The New Batch
Today's festive crop of title art and/or trailer legends yields coke in the budget, coke in the floorboards, a decapitated tourist, vikings, gremlins, a big bad mama (and the even more suffocating Midge), hoofers, surfers, a colossus (and I don't …
Anatomy of a Press Photo: First Look at Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham
Okay, so this is totally gratuitous - Tim Burton is not even directing this production of Great Expectations - but I couldn't help myself.
Dig A Hole: Cynthia Myers, One of Russ Meyer's Dolls
As time passes, and my one-handed "dates" of yesteryear slowly move on to their rewards, I promise not to fill this blog with news of dead bunnies. Cynthia Myers was different. She was a "Doll." Her airbrushed pulchritude and pronounced …
West Side Story Returns to the Big Screen for One Night Only
While heading to Fashion Valley's Box #4 for this morning's screening of J. Edgar, I happened upon a lighted poster case that featured this graven image: Photo credit: Saul Bass. Little Scotty was but a pup when Aunt Fay dragged …
Review: Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story
I'm a raving sportsophope, that's a given. But if we were to swap passions, and Jay DeMerit put as much energy into absorbing all there is to know about movies as he does kicking a soccer ball, I could kind …
Reviews!
John Rubio takes up the task this week, and doesn't hate The Rum Diary. "Much like Thompson’s writing, the film meanders aimlessly, achieving fleeting moments of majesty." He has much, much better things to say about the harrowing war doc …
Dueling Hoovers: Larry Cohen vs. Clint Eastwood
It started with this image I shared on my Facebook wall: Go, Clint! J. Edgar, Clint Eastwood's biopic on the controversial FBI director that stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role, opens next week. With that in mind, I posted …
File Under: I Don't Know How, Er, Why She Does It.
Oh, Sarah Jessica Parker, your career continues to mystify Tea Leoni fans everywhere...
Harold Heralds HK3D: An Interview With John Cho
John Cho walked past me as I sat in the lobby of the Hard Rock Hotel awaiting our interview. My immediate reaction was to smile. Initially, I came for the White Castle -- what I wouldn't give for a freshly …
Publicity Roundup
Well, let's take a look at what's going on in the world of publicity photos, shall we? Oooh, looky here - an image of Matthew Modine on the set of The Dark Knight Rises... Hm. Maybe we should look into …
Snark Week: Amber Heard profiled in the Chicago Sun-Times
The Powers That Be prefer that we keep The Big Screen's snark levels well below toxic, and trust us, we do our best. But then a publicist throws a piece like this over the transom, and it's just chum in …
Happy Halloween from Ben Cooper, Moe Green, & Your Pals at The Big Screen
Remember these sparkly, cheaply made, kiddie surgical gowns that came boxed in one-ply cardboard? They were designed from the world's cheapest fabric; one slight shift of the apothecary would result in an irreparable rip up the side. After an hour …