Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | yesterday
….and welcome to it! At least we think so…. Maybe it was running across Paul Verhoeven’s sci-fi thriller “RoboCop” recently on the telly, but I thought of that android hero when I watched Juan Martin Del Potro dust his way through another flock of top ten guys in London last week. They could nearly [...]
Hot Chicks with Douchebags (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A subtle pic when it first appeared, the power of Robopud's "Ayyy!" hand gesture and GSR (Groin Shave Reveal), plus the Giggle Hottness of Mona and Kate, was too pungent an HCwDB combo, and took the Weekly. The voters speak: Wedgie: I gotta go with Robopud. GSR is an automatic vote getter in my book. Like Baggie a couple of weeks ago, the newest douchie maneuver tops all others in pushing...
Mae West (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
A new TV documentary on sex in cinema will include clips of MAE WEST — — which makes perfect sense. • • Denver Post TV columnist Joanne Ostrow writes: Expect a spicy clip assemblage when Starz recounts the sexiest, most sex-obsessed, sexually boundary-breaking and sexually shocking movies of all time. • • From "Lolita" to "Caligula" to "American...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Once upon a time, Milla Jovovich was set to star in a movie called THE WINTER QUEEN, with director Paul Verhoeven helming the adaptation of the novel about a young woman in 1876 wrapped up in a mystery that involves the suicide of a young student and unravels into an international conspiracy. But that project was said to be dead in the water once Verhoeven walked before production even began. But...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I love a well-told story. That's why I really enjoyed a small film called Stephen Tobolowsky's Birthday Party (hereafter abbreviated as STBP) which made the rounds at many film festivals a few years ago. The film features a series of short stories, as told by legendary character actor Stephen Tobolowsky on the anniversary of his birth. The stories are funny, profound, and moving, and many of them stay...
Savage Popcorn (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
[T]he question I always ask when a science fiction epic of this calibre is director shopping: What is Paul Verhoeven up to? - Peter Kuplowsky on the news that Peter Berg is no longer to direct the upcoming remake of Dune.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Hollywood is still adamant about turning Frank Herbert's science fiction masterpiece Dune into a profitable franchise, but Peter Berg (The Rundown, The Kingdom) will no longer be in the director's chair. Berg was pegged director a few months ago and had been planning a less intellectual and political take on the series, considering the books to "be more of an adventure tale, more of a muscular...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Ever since Antichrist debuted to jeers at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, we've been breathlessly awaiting the day that we'd get a chance to see it. Well, folks, now that director Lars von Trier has reviewed his reviews , we've counted down the ten most brutalized wangs in cinematic history , and we've warned you about the moments in the film when you should close your eyes , the rest is up...
New Film Dimension (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
The New-Yorker recently ran a rather interesting piece on director James Cameron, the directorial force (of nature in some ways) behind the Aliens movies, Terminator and Terminator 2, Titanic and his latest work Avatar. The writer goes into depth describing not just the work he's done, but the man himself; it paints a rather interesting picture of a man who's both awesome, and just a smidgen on the...
Andymatic (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
From The New Yorker: “Do you want Paul Verhoeven to finish this motherfucker?” [James Cameron] shouted, an inch from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s face, after the actor went AWOL from the set of “True Lies,” a James Bond spoof that Cameron was shooting in Washington, D.C. Schwarzenegger had been giving the other actors a tour of the Capitol. [...]
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Dana Goodyear's profile of Avatar director-writer James Cameron, titled "Man of Extremes," in the current New Yorker is smoothly, beautifully written -- a pure-pleasure, warm-butter read. Cameron "is six feet two and fair, with paper-white hair and turbid blue-green eyes," she begins. "He is a screamer -- righteous, withering, aggrieved. "'Do you want Paul Verhoeven to...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Weighing in at almost 11,000 words, Dana Goodyear's terrific profile of James Cameron in today's New Yorker is nearly as long and ambitious as one of Cameron's films — and twice as exciting. The budget-busting, four-wife-divorcing Avatar director comes off just as crazy and comically unreasonable as you'd expect. Making him seem awesome, too, though, is the way reading Goodyear's feature sort...
A Pack A Day (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
One of the things that made Topps' 2009 flagship product such a critical success this year, but has gone mostly unheralded because of its position on the back of the card, is the bevy of interesting stats Topps included in an arching graphic on the back of each card. I'd like to share something interesting from each card in this pack of 2009 Topps Chrome (retail). 207 Mike Hinckley (RC) - According...
The One-Line Review (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
USA Feature Film Director: Paul Verhoeven Writers: Michael Miner, Edward Neumeier Cinematographers: Sol Negrin, Jost Vacano Composer: Basil Poledouris Cast: Peter Weller, Nancy Allen, Dan O'Herlihy, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, Miguel Ferrer, Robert DoQui, Ray Wise, Felton Perry, Paul McCrane Mixing cartoonishly violent action scenes with unsubtle but pleasing satirical detail, Verhoeven’s first...
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
So what if I'm a few days late catching it . Be patient with me. My week has been a blur of horror... and not of the movie kind. Just pretend you haven't heard this crazy ass news yet and let me scoop my jaw up (before the pole dancing commences) Showgirls 2 ? WHAT ?!? What!? I'm speechless. Even if Gina Gershon, Paul Verhoeven, Elizabeth Berkeley and Joe Esterhasz aren't involved it's still so...
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