movie buzz

The mysterious trailer code-named “Cloverfield” is finally online from a legitimate, non-bootlegged-on-a-cell-phone-cam source: Apple Trailers. It’s cool. I wrote about ‘Cloverfield’ previously here and here. And speaking of cell phone cams, I mentioned in the comments of one of those previous posts that it was only a matter of time before someone made a movie … more…

There’s a party at the Privilege nightclub on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood tonight. It’s to celebrate the release, this coming Friday, of the new film Captivity. There’s gonna be cage fighting, Suicide Girls, and a warren of live torture rooms. I was invited, but of course I’m on the East Coast and no one offered … more…

In my review of the last Harry Potter film, The Goblet of Fire, I snarkily contemplated Daniel Radcliffe’s future as a former child star. And the moment is upon him: when he turns 18 on July 23, he’ll come into his Harry Potter fortune: $40 million currently held in a trust fun for him. And … more…

I gets secret emails from mysterious people… All part of the psy-ops?

You’re all buying into J.J. Abrams’ pop-culture psy-ops. Suckers.

This is how stupid, how pliable, big corporations think we are: Posters outside theaters across the country list Jon Voight, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel and Megan Fox as the stars of the summer action flick “Transformers.” But in the labs and cubicles where General Motors Corp. (nyse: GM – news – people ) workers design … more…

It’s a holiday week, which means no movies for me. It’s not that there aren’t a few films screening this week, but I’ve either seen them already or don’t care to see them. (I think the last week in which I didn’t see a single film was that quiet week between Christmas and New Year’s, … more…

I’m sorry to say that I was not at all surprised to hear that Joel Siegel, film critic for ABC’s Good Morning America, died yesterday here in New York. I cannot say I was a friend or even an acquaintance of his, but I did see him frequently at press screenings, and we occasionally exchanged … more…

It seems sorta odd and mysteriously retro, in an animation era that’s all about technology and using artificial means to create photorealistic imagery without photography, but here it is. Sit through the credits of the new Pixar CGI toon Ratatouille, and near the end you’ll see this: Our Quality Assurance Guarantee: 100% Genuine Animation! No … more…

pscyhed… I thought a press screening of Live Free or Die Hard was gonna come late in the week last week. It never did: it’s tonight, actually, only two days before the film opens… or, actually, only one, since there will be midnight screenings tomorrow night. I’ll head out in a few minutes to see … more…