The Last Stand (trailer)
It’s nice to see that Arnie has landed on his feet now that that political thing didn’t work out.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Expendables 2 (review)
What this dumb movie wants you to find absolutely hilarious is random 80s action heroes — this flick is lousy with ’em — now puffy with age and sporting embarrasingly bad dye jobs popping up in deus ex actioner situations…
celeb news of the week: Arnold Schwarzenegger museum opens in Austria
Arnie will just have to make do with this until the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library opens in 2023.
Maria Shriver leaked Arnie’s shame; Alan Rickman’s awesome open letter to J.K. Rowling; Disney abandons ‘Seal Team 6’ trademark; more: leftover links
Plus: Pirates of the Caribbean for Dummies; The Hangover and the rise of the jokeless comedy; HuffPo employees fleeing…
blame Twitter for Wil Wheaton’s nonblogging; ‘Shit My Dad Says’ shitcanned; Catherine Tate may take over ‘The Office’; more: leftover links
Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…
question of the day: Another ‘Terminator’ movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger: a good idea or a machine uprising to be put down?
I’m really beginning to think that Hollywood is hopeless, that it will never again give us another original idea, and perhaps we should welcome the robot apocalypse.
cinematic roots of: ‘You Again’
In You Again, Jamie Lee Curtis must confront her high-school nemesis (Sigourney Weaver again) while her daughter (Kristen Bell) does the same on the occasion of a family wedding. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
action hero-ing while California burns…
Arnold Schwarzenegger must be saying to himself, ‘Ronald Reagan never had to deal with this shit’…
The Expendables (review)
‘Bad Shakespeare,’ one badass notes with a sad shake of his head at a particularly cheesy revelation about the other badass standing in front of him, and that’s the moment when a little bell in my head went off: Bingo.
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Despicable Me,’ ‘Predators,’ ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Despicable Me: “It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!” is my new go-to phrase for when I’m excited about anything. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • The Incredibles (2004): the last great animated movie about supervillains (and the superheroes who thwart them). • 101 Dalmatians (1961): For one … more…
