The digital shorts done by Saturday Night Live have been pure win, so this take on “The Fast and The Furious” from Andy Samberg and Seth Rogan is without a doubt 100 percent awesome. Go ahead and watch the clip below. While you do that, I’ll wipe the Diet Coke off my computer moniter from the laugh-induced soda eruption that just took place in my nostrils.
Month: April 2009
Happy weekend! Early. Three wide releases. One succinct, if not overcrowded, summary. Here we go. Observe and Report: Omnipresent Seth Rogan and cute but always subversive Anna Faris wield their hilarious ways in this not-so-feel-good comedy tribute to gratuitous male nudity. Mr. Rogan plays an overzealous mall cop with aspirations of real cop success. He’s also and overzealous mall cop with aspirations on winning the keys to a shallow beauty-counter girl’s heart and pants (Ferris). All his wildest dreams come …
Remember back in February when Joaquin Phoenix was on The Late Show with David Letterman and appeared as if (a) aliens had abducted him and replaced him with the biggest doped out nerd from their planet or (b) was under the influence of some extremely heavy pain medication – most likely because his new beard was so heavy, or (c) suffered some mental trauma after staring at Reese Witherspoon’s chin while filming “Walk the Line.” Your guess is as good …
Lord Voldemort, aka Hollywood actor Ralph Fiennes, has been tapped to play Hades in Louis Leterrier’s (“The Incredible Hulk”) remake of “Clash of the Titans.” Chances are you don’t remember the first one, but I do and it was awesome. Not only because it told the story of Perseus, but because it was chock full of nudity. Yay for early 1980s PG movies! As a side note, it looks like Liam Neeson, most recently of the pissed-off-dad movie “Taken,” will …
Over at this one blog, I gushed profusely about the trailer for the upcoming film adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. It went a little something like this <cut/paste>: I know I’ve already pontificated once today, but I couldn’t NOT post this. If you read Where The Wild Things Are as a kid, you’ll understand why I say it’s a childhood touchstone – the kind that morphs into a generational pass-along. Whether it was the dark and charming Caldecott …
Rumors of a fourth “Pirates of the Caribbean” film set to sail in 2010 with Johnny Depp will no longer carry the name Gore Verbinski as director. According to Variety, the filmmaker has told Disney and producer Jerry Bruckheimer he won’t be back as to helm the franchise and play with Davey Jones’ crazy tentacle beard. Instead, the director now shifts his attention to the big screen adaptation of the popular video game “Bioshock.” Having thought “Pirates of the Caribbean: …
I missed the screening of “Observe and Report” yesterday, so Plan B was mobilized today. And, as you can see by the photo to the left, Plan B includes a screening of Miley Cyrus in “The Hannah Montana Movie.” I don’t know about you, and maybe I’m a big douche because of this, but I’d rather punch myself in my own soft parts and/or watch those mop-headed twins Zack and Cody on the Disney channel before subjecting myself to a …
So, I’m not a sucker for the singing/dancing genre. While I don’t discount it wholesale and appreciate the skill and craftsmanship behind a musical production of any kind, I’d rather spend movie time watching things get blowed up real good. Preferably in space. I’m sure I have my 3-year-old Star Wars viewing in 1977 to blame for that, which explains my fontanelle for the oft-punched Chronicles of Riddick, monster movies and an inability to totally discount most of the truly …