One year turns to the next, and while we make lists of stuff related to the year we’ve just finished, we also look breathlessly ahead. Movies are tough to hit on — release dates can change pretty quickly (for example,… Continue Reading
It’s the end of the year, so a lot of those “best of” lists are coming out. When you get into film, you don’t often see comedy movies crack top 10 lists — but here, via The Atlantic Wire, we have The… Continue Reading
The Black List, which is an annual (since 2005) list of Hollywood’s best as-of-yet-unproduced screenplays, is now out. There are some good things from some big names — i.e. Leo DiCaprio producing a movie about the creator of Calvin and Hobbes… Continue Reading
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty comes out on Christmas Day in the U.S. (and much of the rest of the world). Basic facts, if you’ve never heard of it: it’s based on a James Thurber short story that appeared in… Continue Reading
Let me start with this: when I sat down to write this, news broke in the U.S. that Nelson Mandela passed away. I’m on an e-mail thread with some of my best guy friends, and we had a quick exchange… Continue Reading
Hunger Games: Catching Fire comes out tomorrow at midnight, so The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has an article today entitled “Lawrence is Hollywood’s modern everywoman,” referencing, of course, Jennifer Lawrence. She’s the star of those films (the first one made about $692 million worldwide, and was… Continue Reading
Pratt killed it in Moneyball, is an anchor of Parks and Recreation, went serious (and got yoked) for Zero Dark Thirty, just wrapped Guardians of the Galaxy, has a baby, and might be starring in June 2015’s Jurassic World. As you logically guessed, that’s the next film in the Jurassic franchise;… Continue Reading
Two new trailers dropped today for Anchorman 2. You can watch both at this link, although I’ll embed one below as well. Oddly, Harrison Ford — arguably one of the five biggest movie stars of the last 40 years in the… Continue Reading