My suggested caption: “Unfortunately, Brad’s split-second decision to kill the wrong zombie ushered in a new era of brain-dead Eva Longoria movies.”
What’s yours?
(Diary of the Dead and Over Her Dead Body stills courtesy of RopeofSilicon.com here and here)

This might have been a terrific movie one-sheet had it not been for this little detail shot of a typically clichéd Hollywood ugly-adorable dog, dressed up in a moronic football uniform, added to the poster for…what, exactly? (click to see the whole one-sheet) It’s not a bad poster at all; it’s got a nice sense [...]

There’s a simply spectacular article – yes! An article, not a blog post! Imagine! – over at Smithsonian.com in which actor-novelist-playwright-comedian Steve Martin describes his early efforts as a comic in cross-country clubs and more than a dozen appearances on The Tonight Show before he felt he’d “made” it. I can’t tell whether or not [...]

While it’s true that I usually use Logline Freebies to suggest a high-concept movie idea, free for the stealing by any screenwriters of loose moral character who stumble across my little site here, today we’ll try something a little bit different.
Because I’m convinced that if no one has snapped up the rights to the story [...]

I find this to be a tough time of year for movie watching.
On one hand, it’s an embarrassment of riches because the Oscar nominations usually mean that I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. I don’t see as many movies as I did long ago in my pathetically lonely bachelor days, but each [...]

It’s a good time to be a young, aspiring filmmaker. You may have heard that striking Writers’ Guild scripters have created “Teaching Thursdays” at Warner Bros. Gate 2 (John August mentions it here), in which industry veterans set aside their picket signs for one day each week to counsel and otherwise illuminate their experience-challenged brethren.
Yeah, [...]

I love food. That’s not a revolutionary statement and it’s nothing that I ever thought I would or should be announcing to the bloguverse, but I do love food for all of its obvious pleasures as well as its more subtle, sublime and symbolic ones.
Everything in movies happens for a reason, a deeper context [...]