Today from the Los Angeles Times industry column Scriptland we get the GREAT news that forward-thinking Hollywood producers have developed a not-sequel, un-prequel, re-versioning, content-leveraging, character-revisiting, genre-regenerating, story-retrofitting look at the tour de force character study Bad Lieutenant, a 1992 film that flung the genitals of Harvey Keitel into our national consciousness.
And I say it’s [...]

It’s really pretty amazing the way that Hollywood works. When a long-running franchise has run itself right into the ground, the always-dependable studio executives somehow discover how to breathe new life into old characters and storylines, inevitably finding amazingly new and spectacular ways to thrill and amaze us, the generous and patient moviegoing American popcorn-munching [...]

Hands-down, one of my very favorite actresses working today – or, truly, ever – has to be Keira Knightley. Her unique and fresh presence, exemplified by not only her dazzling and varied acting performances but also her stunning, natural beauty, should be an inspiration to other troubled starlets of Hollywood. And now we find out [...]

By all means, please read and enjoy Tales of Blogging Passion, Part I here. This is a new ongoing series in which I’d like to focus on bloggers I read who are extraordinary to me in one way or the other.
As I pass in and out of the various blogging communities that I frequent [...]

I know what you’re thinking. Isn’t it time once again to play a round of Photoshop Phun – everybody’s favorite film game brought to you by Burbanked?
Here’s an iconic image from one of our favorite movies, The Godfather – but what’s going on here? Something in this picture has been very subtly changed using Photoshop! [...]

Please please please oh please tell me that Jessica Alba’s upcoming movie The Eye will have this wonderfully clichéd scene in it in which she – as one of those Physically Challenged, Wise And Sublimely Prescient Movie Characters© – casually rescues some clueless skateboarding dope from getting run over by a bus.
Click the dopey [...]

I’m hopelessly conflicted over the self-sustaining nature of the Chad Vader phenomenon.
On one hand, each new installment, blog, vlog, YouTube video and other Web-flotsam related to Chad Vader is fresh and new and bizarre and just brings me such a smile, such a bright spot to my otherwise gray and mundane corporate existence. They [...]