One has to wonder if the members of Monty Python, when they hit the BBC airwaves 37 years ago today, could have possibly dreamed of the cultural impact that Flying Circus would have. We are inundated with Python references, from the homages and parodies to the influence on modern-day skit television, to the vast Python-related [...]

Once again, we find ourselves with just too many links, videos and coffee grounds laying about, lingering in the corners and generally cluttering up the place. Hopefully you - our trusting and extremely patient readership - will get some kind of joy out of the items below, if only to alleviate the guilt we feel [...]

The Hollywood threat “you’ll never work in this town again” is just a bit more antiquated than, say, Costner’s status as a viable leading man. In this day and age, the resilience of Tinseltown’s showbiz players is on daily display as they nobly shoulder the betrayals, outrages and routine backstabbings, and then simply return [...]

To us, it seems a little surprising that anyone would claim some kind of rebel-like victory now that George Lucas has responded to “overwhelming demand from Star Wars fans” by graciously taking our money in the “limited time only DVD release” (or, in marketing terms, “in order to meet big Christmas sales numbers”) of the [...]

Inevitably, there comes a time in every celebrity’s life when the trappings of extraordinary wealth and ridiculously foolish amounts of material things are just not enough to create happiness. Feeling curious, lazy or bored, the celebrity turns to projects or assignments that may seem somehow beneath their inestimable talents in an effort to recapture their [...]

A wise man probably once said, “Truth is the first casualty of Hollywood”. We’ll let you in on the best-kept secret in showbiz: every single person who arrives in Southern California with the intent to succeed in the movie industry is detained at the border until Armani-suited goons have ritually and painfully stripped all ability [...]

Read an interesting item at Cinematical today about how New Line Cinema is releasing a special DVD version of the movie Final Destination 3 with a special “Thrill Ride” feature that allows you to choose certain options presented within the movie, thereby determining the characters’ fates.
What I find interesting, exactly, is that anyone thinks this [...]