retro ad: 1970s Safeguard soap ad with John Travolta
Dirty boy. Have a shower.
John Travolta
retro trailer: ‘Carrie’
I’m seeing Disney’s Prom tomorrow morning. I hope it’s as good as this.
question of the day: What would be the ultimate awful summer movie?
The blockbuster season is creeping up on us, and with it comes the specter of really really terrible movies. It’s as inevitable as sunburn, sand in your sneakers, and mosquito bites. My ultimate awful summer movie? I imagine it might look something like this…
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: If Eric Stoltz could have been Marty McFly, what other 80s movies might have been differently cast?
Did you know that Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future? I seem to vaguely recall hearing something along those lines, but now there’s video evidence… because Robert Zemeckis actually shot for weeks before deciding that Stoltz was wrong for the role.
finally! someone apologizes for ‘Battlefield Earth’!
J.D. Shapiro, one of the screenwriters of Battlefield Earth, has apologized for his crime: he was only looking to get laid. It wasn’t as I intended — promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to … more…
February 5: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re busy writing long, flowery letters to the love of your life, who’s on the other side of the planet somewhere where there’s no Internet access. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the … more…
From Paris with Love (review)
The movie is build from bricks of ridiculous mortared together with the preposterous and painted over with the hugely unlikely. But that don’t mean I didn’t have a blast while I was sitting there in the screening room quaffing it.
my week at the movies: ‘From Paris with Love,’ ‘When in Rome’
It’s another slow week, because it’s late January and almost everyone’s at Sundance. But instead of Utah, I get to go to France this week: From Paris with Love (opens in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. on February 5) might make me feel like I’m traveling. A little bit, maybe? Please? Maybe I’ll get … more…
November 25: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this long holiday weekend, but you won’t be able to move off the sofa after all that turkey, plus: football! But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, … more…
