Lazy Hazy Crazy Days
What a week at Movieline, where we wound down summer in style with a gang of our closest pop-culture pals. Sure, one of them brought along Anne Heche as his date, but…
In Search For Oscar and Audience, Public Director Ondi Timoner Goes It Alone
There used to be only one real way to qualify your documentary for an Academy Award: Sell the movie to a distributor at a major film festival (unless a studio financed…
Men Who Stare at Goats Likely the Best Military-Psychic Film Ever
George Clooney and Grant Heslov's collaborations to date have proven to be pretty hit or miss -- which bodes well for The Men Who Stare at Goats, Heslov's…
Rob Zombie Wants You to Take His Blob Seriously
· Having sworn off the rebooted Halloween franchise, Rob Zombie has found another deadly horror villain to revive: The Blob, which first threatened Steve McQueen's town…
The Feel-Good Weekend of the Year!
Welcome back to Movieline Attractions, your regular guide to everything new, noteworthy and/or left for dead at the movies. This week a pair of horror epics duel for…
Jason Biggs Attacked by Monkey
And it gets better. The Barbary macaque attack reportedly occurred while Biggs and his American Pie co-star Eddie Kaye Thomas visited the Gibraltar region of Spain -- to…
In Theaters: Taking Woodstock
I doubt Ang Lee approached Taking Woodstock with the same sense of historical timing that the rest of culture exploited this summer, when the music festival's 40th…
Beer in Hell College Tour Runs Aground in North Carolina
Since its publication in 2006, Tucker Max's testosterrific book I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell has made its reputation as a polarizing bestseller about the truth and…
Today's Match Made in Heaven: Michael Bay and James Frey
Worn out from grueling, back-to-back slogs wrangling jive-talking robots and lingerie models, Michael Bay may pick up the young-adult alien novel I Am Number 4 as a…
Cheetos + Obama + Execution Squads = Victoria Jackson's Best Rant Ever?
Every now and then, SNL alum and born-again neocon commentator Victoria Jackson will break out with a screed about America's fraying sociocultural fabric. Some are…
Oh, the Humanity: Heathers Updating May Live Yet -- On TV
· Sure, we've already dashed your Heathers sequel hopes. But would you take an updating from Fox and Sony TV as a consolation? All of the principal characters from the…
LACMA Film Program Bailed Out After Weeks of Protest
Following a sustained chorus of protest comprising everyone from its grass-roots loyalists to Martin Scorsese, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art reversed course today…
Taking Woodstock's Ang Lee and Demetri Martin: The Movieline Interview
Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is as much a confluence of chance, mood and timing as it is an actual movie, one of those meant-to-be phenomena not so unlike the historic…
Megan Fox is Catwoman. Right.
If for no other reason than the accompanying "spot of computer wizardry," here is today's, ahem, unassailable British tabloid rumor that Megan Fox has been cast as…
Jennifer Anniston [Sic] Among Stars Cited in Girls Gone Wild Case
Likely without their knowledge and almost certainly without their approval, Jennifer Aniston, Vince Vaughn, Hugh Hefner and other celebs are among those featured in the…
