I know that I’ve sung the praises of the thugs and miscreants over at The Rec Show a number of times before, but today they’ve got something going on that is truly inspired. Do yourself a favor and don’t even finish what I’ve got to say about it. Just click the link as soon as [...]

Chris at Movie Marketing Madness is, as usual, right – this Fred Claus one-sheet is better than the teaser poster, if only because we’re not subjected here to a massively creepy, all-seeing and perversely staring eyeball of Vince Vaughn. I think that we can all agree to be grateful for that.
And while the image on [...]

Sorry for the long title, but I wanted to get the first silly irony of Variety Cranky Old Editor Peter Bart’s most recent anti-blogger tirade out of the way as quickly as possible so that I could move on to other things. In the article, Bart laments the fact that his “blogger friends” are “all [...]

I find it very difficult to get through most of Matthew McConaughey’s movies. Sure, there’s a Lone Star in there, a Dazed and Confused, but in general I find his delivery, his smug persona and his general smarminess to be real cinematic turn-offs.
So it’s with an exuberant sense of “bleh” that I read a piece [...]

In a recent item from Chris at Movie Marketing Madness, we learn that the Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper has rejected plans to drape its building (seen here on the left; click it for a larger version) in the component parts of a marketing campaign for Jerry Seinfeld’s upcoming animated dud feature Bee Movie. Apparently some community [...]

OVER BLACK: “Nine months ago…”
ring-ring. ring-ring.
“Hello, this is Morgan Freeman. When I first answered the phone today, I didn’t think much of it. The truth is, it could have been anyone on the other end of that line; I just didn’t want to know. That was my first impression of that call.”
“Oh, hi, Warren, sorry [...]

It’s not that parents in Hollywood are all stupid. In fact, I’m sure that there are pockets of celebrities here and there who have actually put some thought into how their kids should best be raised in a morally bankrupt and virtually rules-free environment like show business. One never hears tabloid stories, for example, about [...]