Category: This Multiplexed World

Funniest Part: Jerry Seinfeld advocating movie theater littering, while the crowd laughed uncomfortably. Scariest Part: Jennifer Hudson’s jiggling cleavage during the Dreamgirls number. Strangest PA Comment: That J-Lo is the best reason to upgrade to HDTV (a close second: that the Little Miss Sunshine screenwriter was once Matthew Broderick’s personal assistant). Best Comedy Killer: Tom…

(Note: SPOILERS AHEAD) – The impotent/viral dynamic between Colin (Damon) and Billy (DiCaprio)/Frank (Nicholson) is still the film’s funniest subtext, though I seem to have missed one of its key appearances. After Frank and Colin meet at Frank’s porn theater (where studly Frank waves a dildo at limp-dicked Colin), Colin is chased by Billy into…

• Though Cronenberg claims to have been unfamiliar with the film’s graphic novel source material, his compositions regularly invoke comic book panels – such as a Leone-esque shot from Tom Stall’s hip during his front lawn stand-off with Carl Fogarty (above), or a climactic master shot of the entranceway to Tom’s home in which Richie’s…

To cinema’s everlasting benefit, he fought until the end.

Thanks to the syndicated television gods, I finally remember where M. Night Shyamalan “borrowed” the idea for Lady in the Water‘s hero-with-one-muscular-arm. Lady in the Water The Simpsons, Season 17, Episode 361, “Marge’s Son Poisoning” What was that about the film’s “honesty”? (Images courtesy of Yahoo! Movies and The Simpsons Gallery, respectively)

I appreciate the fact that many of you, my readers, feel compelled to leave comments – both positive and negative – about the many reviews housed on this blog. And most of you seem genuinely interested in having a civil discussion about film. However, given the recent deluge of clownish comments left on this site,…

My two-year run contributing reviews to alt-weekly The Rocky Mountain Bullhorn is over, as the newspaper went out of business in early February. Since I only learned about the paper going belly-up by checking out their site, I don’t have any insider info about the publication’s sudden demise. But it’s nonetheless depressing to know that…

At the urging of those many fans who enjoyed my Golden Globes running diary – well, okay, it was just one person, and it was via an email to my wife – I’ve returned with a similar by-the-minute log for the 78th Annual Academy Awards. The glitz! The glamour! The vapidity! And annoying red carpet…

Some of my colleagues at Slant think it’s the worst movie of the year, if not of all time. NY Press’ Matt Zoller Seitz and LA Weekly’s Scott Foundas (among others) more or less agree. Meanwhile, Roger Ebert and Oprah – to name just two high-profile figures – think it’s phenomenal, brilliant, and the best…

Really bad movies may be a dime a dozen, but really bad movie titles are surprisingly rare. Nonetheless, two upcoming films – one that’s definitely happening, and one that seems to be little more than a rumor – have the potential to make bad movie title history. How studios decided to finance projects with such…