Rums-found. W. Casting Announcement

Looks like good ole’ Ollie has cast has Donald Rumsfeld.  Stone has announced his next piece on the strange George W. Bush project, so creatively titled W.  Scott Glen (Backdraft, Silence of the Lambs), has been cast as Rumsfeld, Bush’s military cronie.  I think its a pretty good casting choice, as far as looks go, …

Brand Spankin’ New Indy Trailer!

It’s about time, but with only a few weeks to go…here is the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull trailer. I’m likin’ what I’m seeing, and there are a lot and I mean A LOT of cynical people out there who like to rag on every single tiny detail about this …

GG Allin – Rock ‘n’ Roll Terrorist

Every time I see some 17 year old girl wearing a t-shirt that says “I love punk rock boys”, I laugh my ass off. I laugh because I think deeply into the meaning of that shirt. I like to picture these same preppy chicks come face to face with the king of Punk Rock, G.G. …

Oscars: Best Director

This year, for me anway, is a pretty exciting year for the Oscars. The best director category usually has at least one of my favorite directors hanging around. Last year, we had Clint Eastwood and the long long overdue win for Mr. Scorsese. The year before held Steven Spielberg and the win for Ang Lee …

Replacing Heath Ledger

So there have been many rumours abound as to what would happen to the final Heath Ledger film by Terry Gilliam entitled: The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. Apparently, he had shot so much footage in the film, that it would have been a major waste of money and talent to just scrap it. There had …

Retro Review: Donnie Brasco

Martin Scorsese didn’t invent the mafia movie, he merely turned it into pop culture. Even though Coppola’s “The Godfather” is the obvious choice as the possibly be-all, end-all mafia film, Scorsese influenced a generation of directors with his fast paced and more popcorn-ish portrayal of mafia figures. Donnie Brasco is a copy of that portrayal. …

Review: Juno

It seemed the only word that has echoed around my ears the past week has been “Juno!” “Juno!” “Juno!!”. “Okay! I get the picture…Juno is a great movie…” thought I. However, after watching Juno, the only word that rang through my mind afterwards was “Eh…” To the set record straight, I kinda liked Juno, but …