G.I. Joe: Retaliation (trailer)
Another Michael Bay(TM) Hasbro(TM) movie for 2012…
Bruce Willis
Melancholia (review)
Depression is like an enormous rogue planet entering your solar system and ripping your world apart…
Melancholia (trailer)
Kirst Dunset gets married, and is sad, and that makes the world end. Apparently.
question of the day: What actor(s) would you bring forward or send backward in time so they could work with stars of other eras?
Which noncontemporaries would you pair them with, and what kind of movie would they make?
best and worst movie quotes of 2010
Oh yeah, I’m late with this. I carefully gather them all year long and then I never get around to posting them. So here they are at long last. And for 2011, I’m just gonna post ’em as they come in. So there.
question of the day: Can Michael Bay do justice to Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
Film director Michael Bay announced today, April 1, that his next project would be a 10-part miniseries adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel American Gods. Bay revealed that Shia LaBeouf has been cast Shadow, the ex-convict who unwittingly takes a job as a bodyguard for Odin, who will be played by Bruce Willis…
Nintendo says no to Justin Bieber; Ricky Gervais won’t host Golden Globes again; Michel Gondry not a fan of 3D; more: leftover links
Plus: Kevin Smith was lying about how cool it was to direct Bruce Willis in Cop Out; CBS now stealing ideas from German TV; Joan Rivers gets kicked off Fox for bitching about Sarah Palin; more…
cinematic roots of: ‘Hereafter’
In Hereafter, Matt Damon sees dead people, but doesn’t want to, and is on a collusion course with a French woman (Cecile De France) and a British boy who have also had a taste of the afterlife. This flick sprang from (among other films):
cinematic roots of: ‘Red’
In Red, retired super secret agents including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Morgan Freeman come out of retirement — unofficially — to investigate a nasty coverup at the highest levels of government of a terrible crime. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
Red (review)
Of all the washed-up washed-out over-the-hill too-old-for-this-shit action-hero movies we’ve had thrown at us this year — The A-Team, The Losers, The Expendables — Red is by far the most amusing, the most clever, the most tongue-in-cheek, the most fun (and I say that as someone who mostly liked those other movies).
