My blog-love affair with cartoonist Doug Savage’s terrific daily Savage Chickens (find a random strip here) continues unabated and – grievously – unrequited. Here’s another recent great one:

This is how you do it, movie marketers. I thought the first Hellboy was fine, not great, but this is one gorgeous, iconic-looking poster and the trailer delivers, too. Del Toro’s stock is quite a bit higher than it was in 2004, so I’m hoping that Golden Army has got the goods. It opens July [...]

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 [...]

Some excellent, regular-Joe film commentary can be found at Flickskinny.com (via Hollywood Elsewhere) – and the fact that it’s delivered via hilariously scribbled comic strips (that’s a small excerpt of Brokeback on the left) is just short of brilliant. Be sure to check out their big archive of film reviews.
Wish these guys would do some [...]