Film is a fickle medium. In any other industry if you take two of the top performers in their respective spheres and put them together you’ve got a hit. Derek Jeter and A-Rod, peanut butter and jelly, vanilla and chocolate. Like Captain Planet, their combined powers create something greater than the sum of their parts. [...]
You may have seen the trailer for the latest Jim Carrey comedy, I Love You Phillip Morris. If so, I’d advise you to quit while you’re ahead. Like most comedy trailers, it cannily includes most of the film’s funniest moments. This has always struck me as a kind of misrepresentation: the trailer is supposed to [...]
Ever since the announcement that a new film adaption of the classic television show, “The A-Team,” would be made, speculation and rumors have soared about who would fill those iconic roles. Already cast in the project are Liam Neeson as Col. John “Hannibal” Smith, and Bradley Cooper as Lt. Templeton “Faceman” Peck. It was once [...]
The Beatles’ seminal animated film and subsequent album, “Yellow Submarine,” is coming to the big screen once again thanks to Disney and Robert Zemeckis, according to Variety. George Dunning’s orginal “Yellow Submarine,” released in 1968, took place in an undersea wonderland called Pepperland guarded by Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. The anti-music villains, the [...]
After Sean Penn announced he was backing out of the Farrelly brothers’ modern take on “The Three Stooges,” (citing “personal reasons”) the online film community was sent into a tizzy of speculation about who would replace him. Well, it turns out that Paul Giamatti may just be up to the task. The Boston Globe is [...]
After Will Ferrell’s surprisingly adept foray into the realm of straight-faced cinema with Marc Forster’s “Stranger than Fiction” (2006), I had expected continued, and increasingly fruitful artistic diversification from the comic icon, much in the way that “The Truman Show” (1998) effected Jim Carrey’s escape into drama. Of course there would be missteps, e.g., “The [...]
Sean Penn’s busy shooting schedule is suddenly not so busy anymore. Penn recently caught Universal, MGM, and Imagine by surprise announcing that he will no longer star in Asger Leth’s “Cartel,” or the highly anticipated comedy, “The Three Stooges,” citing personal reasons, according to Variety. His role in the Peter Craig-penned script, “Cartel,” about a [...]
Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol” will be adapted again, this time by Disney and Hollywood funnyman, Jim Carrey will play the infamous party-pooper, Ebenezer Scrooge. After playing another Holiday hater, The Grinch, in Dr. Seuss’ beloved “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” it’s not surprising that Carrey would more-or-less reprise that role in another anti-Christmas [...]
How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d. Labour and rest, that equal periods keep; “Obedient slumbers that can wake and weep;” Desires compos’d, affections ever ev’n, Tears that delight, and sighs that waft to Heav’n [...]
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