As I’ve mentioned and speculated again, writer-director Frank Darabont’s rejected Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods draft has reached near-mythic heights of speculation around the bloguverse over the last year or so by fanboys such as myself who wondered why Lucas rejected it and what would come of the final product.
Of course, now [...]

I’m about to lead off with a spoiler, so if you haven’t seen the movie, don’t read this article.
There’s a scene right after the extended opening sequence of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull that, I thought, was the best, most perfect jumping-off point for what was to come and I was [...]

What a bummer.

“But then they proceed to vomit out a movie so thoroughly incomprehensible and complicated that it can do nothing but bore/ alienate/ lobotomize kids everywhere. I will not attempt to summarize it simply because it cannot be understood. I defy anyone to completely explain this film that isn’t either the Wachowski Brothers or [...]

Hopefully my newly-coined term “foodgrab” is soon to enter the film blog venacular. That being, of course, a screengrab from a classic or new movie which represents the first time the filmmaker shows us - wait for it - food.
In screenwriter/blogger John August’s film The Nines, we see food for the first time at the [...]

About two weeks ago, I was preparing to head out to the movies, and to help me choose my best bet for a presumptive award-winning movie, I asked for your help. You told me to go see There Will Be Blood, and I did exactly as you asked.
Part of my disadvantage of seeing movies 1) [...]

Apologies for the light posting this week, movie snark fans. I’ve been pretty tied up with freelance work, so I’ve been pulling late nights and early mornings - which SERIOUSLY cuts into my precious blogging time. I’ll be back up and running regular-like again soon.
But here’s the deal: throughout this year we’ll be looking at [...]

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 [...]