Author Archives: AaronOOF

Sir Peter Ustinov dead at 82! I’m sure at some point within the next couple weeks TCM will air a tribute day, or at least an evening. I’m not sure what’s in their library, but if you want to have your own little Ustinov film festival, start with the films that gave him his twoContinue reading “R.I.P. LENTULUS BATIATUS”

During my days lliving in Los Angeles, I worked for a couple years at a small, but very well-respected, talent agency. The agency represented a variety of talent, mostly character actors and a few big-names everyone knows, although not necessarily “A-list” stars. My old boss had been around the business a while, and back inContinue reading “YAY FAY!!”

OK, so he’s not actually fat, or at least he wasn’t last time I saw his bushy mustache attacking my TV, but I took inspiration from Mr. Franken. And he most definitely is a putz. If you don’t know who Medved is, you’ve probably seen him on TV once or twice. He’s a film criticContinue reading “MICHAEL MEDVED IS A BIG FAT PUTZ”

I’m just going to say it now: If the next Batman film/prequel/whatever-you-want-to-call-it (and currently the title is Batman Begins) is not one of the best action films of all time, I’m going to be shocked. The old news is that Christopher Nolan of Memento fame will be directing. The script is being written by NolanContinue reading “HOLY BAT-CASTING!!!”

Tonight in New York is the beginning of the 2004 edition of MOMA’s and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s annual New Directors/New Films Festival. With MOMA’s main location in midtown still under reconstruction, for the second year in a row the screenings are being held at both Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall and MOMA’sContinue reading “NEW NEW”

I’m not sure what I make of this Hollywood Reporter story, but it seems that Frank Darabont has signed on to write the next installment of Mission: Impossible. Apparently, Tommy Boy must not have been too happy with the work being done by veteran scerenwriter Robert Towne, who not only wrote the first two films,Continue reading “A DIFFERENT MISSION“

In no particular order: While this certainly isn’t good news, aren’t a few too many people dying while seeing The Passion of the Christ? Maybe the film needs to carry a surgeon general’s warning. And you know, I meant to mention this in my dissertation-length post the other day, but why doesn’t this movie carryContinue reading “INTERESTING BITS OF TID”

That’s a loaded headline, and this is actually old news by now since The Week is already several days old. I usually receive it on Saturday, but the lovely USPS didn’t deliver to me this week’s issue until yesterday, which is really upsetting because there are two priceless entries on page 4 under “Good weekContinue reading “BEST OF THE WEEK“

Movie audiences have suffered big screen adapatations of little-screen favorites for some time now. Some good, some bad, but most of the time at least the idea of these reimaginations make some sort of sense. The Brady Bunch, Charlie’s Angels and most recently Starsky & Hutch are examples of adaptations that, great or not, mostlyContinue reading “AND NOW ANOTHER INSTALLMENT OF “NO THANKS, THERE’S REALLY NO NEED””

The battle royale brewing between two a top production company and the unions of a top-five metropolitan area seems to be cooling off, and thank goodness. Had the unions not come around to the wishes of said company, we may have been deprived of a potentially the greatest pop culture moment yet in the historyContinue reading “OH SO REAL“