HBO To Air Farrell’s George Bush Broadway Show

HBO has announced that it will air live a performance of Will Ferrel’s upcoming Broadway show, ‘You’re Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush.’ The show is co-written by Farrell and frequent collaborator Adam McKay.  The airdate is unknown, but it assumed that it will be late in the show’s run, as to …

Leno to Host Prime-Time Show

For some reason, Jay Leno just refuses to go away. NBC announced that the soon to be former late show host is going to host a show, five nights a week at 10PM EST, a time slot usually reserved for one hour dramas. NBC has had shows like Law & Order, ER, etc. in this …

LA Film Critics Names ‘Wall-E’ Top Film

In one of the first best-of lists of the year, the Los Angeles Film Critics have named Pixar’s ‘Wall-E’ the best movie of 2008.  ‘The Dark Knight’ was named runner up.  Danny Boyle was named best director for ‘Slumdog Millionaire,’ while Christopher Nolan was named runner up. In case you think it was a case …

Close Up: Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan is arguably one of the most interesting and talented directors to emerge in the past ten years. His films have received both commercial and critical praise, and his latest, ‘The Dark Knight,’ has been receiving so much praise, and is poised to be the biggest hit of the summer. Nolan, a graduate of …

DVD Review: The Dark Knight

With the recent spate of comic book-based movies, we’re in a golden age. It is no longer just okay to throw characters onto the screen with poor dialogue and ludicrous scenarios. The bar has been raised every summer. And the bar is now sky high. Now comic book movies must face the dizzying heights achieved …

DVD Review: Tropic Thunder

Ben Stiller’s second directorial effort is a kitchen-sink affair, no joke is to low, no explosion is too big. Sending up actors and their craft, as well as the ridiculousness seemingly inherent in filmmaking, ‘Tropic Thunder,’ is an assault on the senses that, at the same time, is kinda boring in some spots.

‘Dark Knight’ Fans Campaign For Oscar Gold

Instead of asking ‘why so serious,’ perhaps the question should be, ‘are they serious?’  The answer is a simple one: yes they are. ‘They’ are the fans of Christopher Nolan and ‘The Dark Knight.’  If toppling box office records wasn’t enough, they now have their eyes on a bigger prize: Oscar gold.  A website, Dark …

Is ‘The Transporter’ Gay?

Not that it matters, but word is out that Frank Martin, the main character in the popular ‘Transporter’ films might be gay. In a new interview, director Lewis Leterrier, (he of ‘Transporter 2’ and Edward Norton’s ‘The Incredible Hulk,’) says that he directed the second film, with the thought in his mind that Martin was …

Scott Frank Talks ‘Apes’ Movie

Writer and director Scott Frank, (‘The Lookout,’) has spoken about his latest project, a new film in the ‘Planet of the Apes’ series. There have been rumors that the movie would be a remake of ‘Conquest of the Planet of the Apes,’ but in a new interview with CHUD, Frank says the film is not …