Hi, Sharon Stone. It’s me, Burbanked. I figured, as a fellow western Pennsylvanian and an accredited member of the burgeoning Pittsburgh film bloggers community, I would take the initiative to reach out and bestow upon you the kind of true kindness that only kind people can give so freely and kindly.
Sharon Stone, it’s time for [...]

ring-ring. ring-ring.
“Hello, this is Walter Koenig calling. Is Warren available? Yes, of course.”
“Hi, Warren. Yeah, great. Listen, I appreciate all the press notices I’m getting for agreeing to stand in as George’s best man at his gay wedding - ”
“That’s okay, it’s his event, he’s the bride - ”
“No I didn’t.”
“Anyway, what I was wondering [...]

Of course a lot is being said and written about the passing of comic actor Harvey Korman at the age of 81. And from what I’ve seen so far, much of the movie bloggers’ tributes rightly focus on Korman’s terrific turn as Hedley Lamarr in Mel Brooks’ classic Blazing Saddles.
But as it happened, I never [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Hollywood, May 2, 2008
With the June 18 release date for his upcoming blockbuster geo-eco-thriller The Happening, writer-director-actor M. Night Shyamalan is preparing to engage film lovers all over the world in an entirely new, immersive moviegoing experience! Hollywood is abuzz with the introduction of:
The M. Night Shyamalan MEoh™!
Let’s hear the details straight [...]

Last time when I wrote about character actor John Getz and the critical role he played in one of David Cronenberg’s classic gross-out scenes, I approached it from the standpoint that Getz had an everyday kind of face in an industry filled with extraordinary-looking people. My thought at the time was that, while the faces [...]

To link a pair of Hollywood actors not only through the roles they’ve played and the costars to whom they’re connected; and to do so through the fact that one of them was born and the other one died on this! very! day!; and to also connect the relatively small criteria that one of these [...]

Hollywood is a place of extraordinary faces. When we think of our favorite actors and actresses and the movies that have defined them, we immediately think of the kinds of beauty that has been rendered improbably real and larger-than-life on the cinematic screen. The young Tom Cruise in Risky Business. The dashing Harrison Ford as [...]