Author Archives: AaronOOF

I’m not sure how I missed this one. Better yet, I’m not sure how everyone missed such casting news. I just happened upon it by accident and then I scoured all the blogs that would know. I must believe that had it not been for his bandwidth issues, Uncle Grambo would have been all overContinue reading “THE FIFTH SIGN OF THE APOCALYPSE: FIRST THE EAST VILLAGE, NOW RENT — GENTRIFIED”

Geez, were the cinetrix and Filmbrain sitting around watching Variety in anticipation of the big breaking news? Both of them posted last night (as did The Movie Blog) last night … not long after the news hit the Variety web site. To be fair, though, those kings of inside indie info, the indieWire Insider, hadContinue reading “BIG NEWS YOU WON’T HEAR ANYWHERE ELSE!!!!”

Can this be true? It comes from Star Magazine (via iWon), so chances are a solid 50-50, but is Jake Gyllenhaal the final answer as to who will next don the most famous of all superhero tights and a big red S? Does Toby Maguire’s almost-replacement as Peter Parker have enough to masquerade himself withContinue reading “YOU SURVIVE ONE LITTLE GLOBAL WARMING INFLICTED ICE AGE AND SUDDENLY YOU’RE SUPERMAN?”

I don’t know about you, but I’m more than a little nervous about today’s announcement that Mel Karmazin is leaving Viacom and being replaced by two-headed monster Tom Freston and Les Moonves. I can only hope that Freston is there to counterbalance the former-actor Moonves, but as evidenced whenever he makes public appearances, Les isContinue reading “LES IS NOT MORE”

Obviously the big news in the land must be that is Julia Roberts is pregnant with twins. I was fascinated to see no mention of Julia’s husband Danny Moder in the story anywhere, however AP doesn’t mind reporting that the twins will be a boy and a girl. Considering that Roberts is apparently only “nineContinue reading “OBVIOUSLY REPORTED BY THE STAR MAGAZINE SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT”

Tonight is as good a time as any to discover the greatness of Turner Classic Movies. With the beginning of each month comes a new featured star, and starting tonight, TCM dedicates June to the great Cary Grant starting with a brand new documentary about his life called Cary Grant: A Class Apart followed byContinue reading “TCM WATCH: A DAMN GOOD REASON TO NOT TOUCH THAT DIAL”

Thank you NY Times for giving the brilliant Avenue Q its due with your story in Sunday’s Arts & Leisure section. It was a good counterbalance to the useless A.O. Scott Cannes Film Festival wrap-up five pages later. Avenue Q is about to go down (in my book at least) as one of the bestContinue reading “DEAR GRAY LADY: STICK WITH THE PUPPETS — THEY OBVIOUSLY HAVE MORE SENSE THAN SOME OF YOUR WRITERS”

I’m pretty sure Uncle Grambo had this info at least a few days ago, but I can’t check right now because he’s so damn popular his site went over its bandwidth limit and is now down until June comes around. And I know it was on E! online after it was reported by Star magazineContinue reading “WILL THE WHOLE MOVIE SIMPLY BE HER TRYING TO OPEN THE CAR DOOR?”

I’m sure this has been floating around forever, but it just landed in my mailbox today. It’s kind of like the poor “Star Wars Kid” who’s video floated around a while, but this actually made me laugh more. Obviously the result of a Photoshop user with too much time on his hands, I guess thisContinue reading “I SUPPOSE THE OLSENS FINALLY WANTED TO CLAIM MORE INDIVIDUAL IDENTITIES”

Today’s Variety (sub rq’d) reports that Gwyneth Paltrow has decided to only play iconic historical real-life women from now on (thanks Reuters). Following her take on Sylvia Plath (I must confess I have not seen Sylvia; I have heard she was good and the movie was not), Paltrow apparently plans to follow her maternity leaveContinue reading “IN GERMAN, THE NAME WOULD BE “APFEL””