Universal Pictures emailed me this one sheet for Sacha Baron Cohen’s new movie “Brüno,” due in theaters on July 10,2009. That’s two days before my birthday, so I suppose I can expect a Borat-sized gift of male nudity, dominatrix outfits, akwardly humorous bits involving unsuspecting real-life people (see: Ron Paul) and probably enough hype over perceived offensiveness to fill a summer’s worth of blog posting. Yay! Happy birthday to me! To see a bigger version, click here.
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Good grief, Twilight just won’t stop giving. More news today– while Stephanie Meyers scratches her head over Deseret Book pulling her Twilight books off store shelves*, she’s responding to the news of David Slade being chosen as director for Twilight: Eclipse. “I am thrilled that David Slade will be directing ECLIPSE. He’s a visionary filmmaker who has so much to offer this franchise. From the beginning, we’ve been blessed with wonderful directorial talent for the Twilight Saga, and I’m so …
The following photo is one that will probably make the Twi-hards (Really? That’s what Twilight fans have named themselves?) swoon while their male partners find retribution and solace in breaking out a quick list of homophobic insults. USA Today has premiered a promo shot for Twilight: New Moon. No, it’s not Edward– it’s the “Wolf Pack” boys exposing eight nipples, four belly buttons and a Photoshop workout that would make Tony Horton sad. Once again, the image is an exclusive. …
Word on the streets is X-Men Origins: Wolverine is all kinds of shabby– bloated, loosey-goosey and vapid. You know, just like the rest of our favorite summer movies. Of course, those streets may be populated with mouth-breathing comic book purists, but they’re streets nonetheless. I’m going to wait and see– and while this trailer is somewhat trite in the way it’s cribbed from a sweaty locker room full of sport icon/rehydration drink commercials, I couldn’t help but feel some gid. …
Andy and I had a little disagreement a while back. He said the 90’s Costner vehicle Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves was crapola. I disagreed. After viewing it again a few nights ago, I think I might have to acquiesce… it might be a little dated and a little silly. Or maybe I wasn’t feeling 90’s action vibe at the time. Either way, I’m sorry, Kevin Reynolds. I’ll still go to bat for Waterworld and Count of Monte Cristo though… …
Academy Award-winning director, and veritable hottie, Sofia Coppola is reuniting with Focus Features, the company behind her highly decorated “Lost in Translation,” for her next feature entitled “Somewhere.” Coppola both was the writer/director for “Lost in Translation” and won an Oscar for best original screenplay. She will be writer/director for “Somewhere,” as well. According to the Focus Features press release, “Somewhere,” set in Los Angeles, “is the story of Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life …
As a 10-year-old kid in the middle of the Cold War circa 1984, Red Dawn freaked me the crap out. Hollywood’s first wide-release PG-13 movie, Red Dawn earned it’s 13 with enough surprisingly violent and grounded in enough realism to make it both bleak and frightening. Red Dawn also has the honor of being the film that originally coined the now legendary “Wolveriiiiiiiiines!”– a war cry I shout out every time I think about having to enter a Wal-Mart. While …
It was announced today “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” will not release on July 17, 2009 as originally planned. Instead it will release on July 15, 2009. Now Harry Potter nerds can don their wizard wands and magic cats two days earlier. This is the best news ever! To celebrate, take a peek at the most recent “Half-Blood Prince” trailer below (the second international trailer, to be exact).
I’m pining for Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglorious Bastards” August 21, 2009 release date like I’m pining for Old Man Winter to stop douching snowstorms on Cache Valley (that’s a pristine chunk of Northern Utah for all you non-Utah readers). Get on with Spring already, damnit! However, this brief “inside” look at “Inglorious Bastards” shown during “American Idol” last night is absolutely, unequivocally, 100% lame. So, if you’re into lame teasers that give you nothing of value, check it out. Loser.
Right now, even as you read this, there’s a grundleload of highly anticipated movies lining up for their crack at your summer dollars. I’m all kinds of jazzed about seeing one in particular and can’t wait to toss my dollars in its face: Moon. Yes, Moon! I know, huh. Thing is, I love this stuff– the somewhat pessimistic and spooky stencil of human insignificance against the cold, black unknown of space. The spartan existence of the men and women who …