Hollywood’s celebrity actors enjoy fame, piles of money, truckloads of scripts for underlings to read, and regular infusions of narcotics legal, psychological or otherwise that feed particular narcissistic addictions. They keep the showbiz hype machine greased up and moving along with flack-placed stories about personal exploits, wacky political opinions, daftly-named offspring and more.
But what happens [...]

On October 1, Evil Eye Theatre will be born. One whole month of horror-inspired rottenness and misery.And may God have mercy on our souls.

Wowie! Matt Holmes at the excellent Obsessed With Film site has taken temporary leave of his senses in inviting me to post a weekly column, and my first piece can be seen there now.Matt and all of his contributors do an excellent job of providing insight and critique into the world of film, and OWF [...]

Whilst enjoying myself at the cinema last night, I got to see the trailer for Gus Van Sant’s upcoming biopic Milk starring Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and others. I’m not a huge fan of Van Sant (or Penn for that matter), although it’s a terrific trailer and the movie looks like decent Oscar-bait.

But the extraordinary [...]

Cool! I’ve just scored an exclusive look at the new one-sheet for Clint Eastwood’s upcoming movie with Angelina Jolie!
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Here’s the logline:
When the ambitious wife of a ruthless Presidential candidate finds that she’s inexplicably growing to an enormous size, she becomes the key to securing her [...]

Starting on Monday 9.22.08 and running for two weeks, writer and film historian Raymond Benson will be posting a series of his top-10 films of 1968 over at the Britannica Blog. Not only is 1968 roughly 40 years old this year, but Benson has chosen ‘68 from the standpoint that the country’s turbulent societal times [...]

I had planned to write nothing on this site about next summer’s crapquel Transformers: Rise of the Bile. After all, my one-blog army that took on Michael Bay and the Geekformers in 2007 had surprisingly little impact on that movie’s box office results, so I had begun to think that the Allspark-like power of my [...]