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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“

The best news to come out of the release of the “Mel Gibson Version” of The New Testament appears in today’s Daily Variety. “‘Christ’ re-begats ‘Brian’” reads the headline (subscription needed). It seems that thanks to all the hoopla surrounding Mel’s attempt to become “king of the world”, the brilliant Monty Python comedy Life ofContinue reading “I GUESS THE PASSION IS GOOD FOR SOMETHING”

Time to talk a little biz-i-ness. Briefly. Some of you out there, myself included, had probably hoped for a slightly better box office showing from Eternal Sunshine. The good news is that it’s sixth place finish was actually a very strong showing, especially when one takes into account a more important number if one wantsContinue reading “IT’S CALLED SUPPLY AND DEMAND; OR THE BOX-OFFICE HORSE-RACE”

It’s not quite as good as the Reuters headline Cinetrix posted this weekend, but “U’s ‘Dead’ Reckoning: With $27 mil bow, zombie remake topples ‘Christ’” leads off Variety this morning, and after finally actually seeing Mel’s medieval passion play Friday night, that was definitely the best news I’ve heard in just about three weeks. IContinue reading “IT’S A NEW DAWN (PLUS MEL’S PASSION: RELIGIOUS EPIC OR THE SEQUEL TO “JASON VS. FREDDY” – DISCUSS)”

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind opens today. If you’re not working, go see it now. If you are, go see it after work. And please, help this film be a commercial success and finally topple Mel.

Yesterday I mentioned some casting news about the new film Sin City from director Robert Rodriguez. Rodriguez calls his production company Troublemaker Studios, and he has always been a bit of a vanguard, making his films in his own complex (why do I want to say it’s an old castle or something … I mayContinue reading “STILL A TROUBLEMAKER”

I don’t know why I do this to myself, but last night I got home a little late after work at the “new” job and some let’s-be-a-team drinks, and I was really tired. But I still decided to sit through not one, but two episodes of the new WB shitcom The Help which I hadContinue reading “I DON’T NEED THIS KIND OF HELP“