For No Good Reason

Timur Bekmambetov Explains My Gall for You

I could've been harder on WANTED. Or I could've simply quoted the director (via this L.A. Weekly interview):

Bekmambetov, who’s based in Moscow, talked to a lot of young Americans like Wesley about their situations and their dreams. "Unfortunately," he says, laughing, "their imaginations are very bloody, very violent. They don’t say so, because people never say what they think, but there’s a lot of aggression and anger. But I like this generation, they’re very smart, and I’m very sorry that they are spending their lives in such predictable ways."

Part II AICN

Sammy & Fosse

I'm Still Here

I Was Always a Believer

A link to my December 6, 2006 post about Daniel "Boobie" Gibson.  How in the hell did it take Mike Brown this long to realize he had the solution to his Eric Snow problem?

Jim Reardon's "Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown"

Screengrab posted this the other day.  Twenty years later, it's still damn funny.

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I was goofing around the other night, and it looks like I broke my blog.  I'll have to holler at TypePad to fix the shit.

And it looks like I fixed it just by posting.  I guess it was just lonely.  Sorry, blog, but daddy's got to make a living.

I Always Dug This Trailer

The CHUDding Has Begun

And I've already pissed off Jeff!  And, most likely, AICN talkback legend, ABKing!

Updates around here... well, we'll see.

That Great, Great Polish Actor?

The credited writers of Roland Joffe's (!) Captivity are Larry Cohen and someone going by the name of Joseph Tura.  And If I need to explain to you why that's the greatest thing I've read all week, then there's a huge gap in your film education.

12:17 Addendum:  I've idly snooped around the trades, and it seems Larry Cohen was the only credited writer on Captivity throughout its production, meaning that someone did enough script doctoring to warrant a credit from the WGA and was quite satisfied to not be the, uh, co-father of this apparent turkey.