One day, we'll mythologize these early years of Twitter lawlessness as if it were some latter-day Old West. (Except in this case, the outlaws don't rob banks -- they tweet fake messages about dipping a toe in bisexual waters from their account "TheREALJudgeJudy.")
Appearing on Late Show with David Letterman last night, fleshy kvetch-artist Jonah Hill described how he himself has fallen victim to the popular online white-noise-generator's unregulated wilds.
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If you walked out of The Hangover -- Warner's $200 zillion comedy blockbuster about three friends bound by their inability to remember how they lost a tooth, a groom, and a Mercedes during one fuzzy night in Las Vegas -- and yourself felt the tickling of a faint, recessed memory, that might be because the film owes much of its central premise to Dude, Where's My Car.
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The Frisky is on to something in its new collection of great cinema orgasms, invoking Katherine Heigl's skeevy, child-induced, vibrating-panties scene in The Ugly Truth as a huge backward leap of the form. But their superior selections aren't really doing it either, with the obvious exception of Meg Ryan's When Harry Met Sally pseudorgasm and the Orgsamatron sex surrogate from Sleeper. But Swordfish? American Pie? Hellooo? Hasn't anyone seen Team America? Click ahead for the video -- and your own ecstatic contributions.
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I think we can all agree that sometime within the last year, James Franco ascended to the title of "Liked By All." Pineapple Express, Milk, gay student films, the Apatow segment during the Oscars...it was a great run there, wasn't it? And certainly, in theory, his latest endeavor sounds like it should be a gas, too: a Funny or Die video poking fun at the UCLA commencement he famously backed out of.
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If you remember David Letterman's visible ambivalence about interviewing Borat in 2006, it makes all the more sense that Sacha Baron Cohen would return to The Late Show last night in a rare promotional appearance as himself. And while I suppose the star could just have easily have shared his Brüno war stories in character as the flamboyant Austrian pseudo-star, let's face it: There's really no substitute for the more relaxed, down-to-earth details of how exactly to nab a terrorist for your summer blockbuster.
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If the trailer to 2012 left you feeling just a bit inured to the images of spectacular destruction foisted upon us by Roland Emmerich, the Cecil B. DeMille of truly awful CGI-driven disaster cinema, perhaps all you needed was a shift of tone. And now you get one, courtesy of i09.com contributor Garrison Dean, who envisions the John Cusack-outrunning-a-rolling-Vatican-in-a-speeding-Winnebago movie as something closer to what it actually is: a '70s disaster-porn movie, replete with bongo-fortified funk soundtrack and BIG SCROLLING WORDS explaining THE KINDS OF DISASTERS YOU ARE LOOKING AT.
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MSN's Cinemash series launches today, giving contemporary actors the opportunity to reinvent their favorite scenes from old movies. As per their marketing witchcraft, Fox Searchlight took full advantage of the opportunity to depict (500) Days of Summer stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the title characters of Alex Cox's 1986 classic Sid & Nancy. Except, you know, respectively: Bewigged, knife-wielding Deschanel as the Sex Pistols bassist (or at least Gary Oldman's version of him), and bewigged, sweatshirted Levitt doing Chloe Webb as Nancy Spungen. All of which is itself a riff on a scene in Summer. Got it? Oh. Well, read on for a few more specifics (with helpful video aids).
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You've endured his films. You've read his angry e-mails. Now join Michael Bay for a little multitasking. The reigning box-office champ (or at least a very, very skilled imitator) had some time to catch up online recently, offering fans a NSFW sneak peek behind the scenes of his Mac. If penis-shaped explosions, Ben Affleck wallpaper, critic payola and other Bayian surprises are worth six minutes of your morning (and trust me, they are), tag along with Mike after the jump.
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It's been a bounteous day for new trailers here at Movieline, beginning with Megan Fox's penetrating work as a razor-toothed, castrating cheer-demon in Jennifer's Body, and continuing with the perfume-infused froggerie that is Coco Before Chanel. The third and last preview to withstand the scrutiny of our esteemed Two-Minute Verdict judging panel is for Jim Sheridan's Brothers -- a domestic love triangle in which Spider-Man and the guy-who-threatened-to-replace-Spider-Man fight for the affections of Queen Amidala.
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The idea of French superstar Audrey Tatutou playing designer Coco Chanel makes plenty of sense; if anything, it's as on the Gallic nose as Michael Bay's idea of Paris as a place solely occupied by escargot-adjacent mimes. Still, even we were unprepared for the sheer, dangerous levels of Frenchiness present in the new trailer for Coco Before Chanel.
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Anybody who's followed the aftermath of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen knows that inside Megan Fox's lithe, photogenic frame, there's the soul of a serious actress waiting to captivate Hollywood. And this morning, with the red-band trailer for her horror comedy Jennifer's Body debuting online, we know that we'll have to wait at least one more film for that takeover to occur.
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Hey -- you know what would be really bittersweet and slightly macabre? If there were some way to watch Michael Jackson putting on the comeback performance of a lifetime 48 hours before his death, only it's a dress rehearsal, so instead of cheering throngs, you just hear a stage manager going "hold for applause...hold for applause." What's that you say? There is?
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Movieline wants to wish everyone a very Happy Fourth of July Weekend. We'll not be posting tomorrow -- save for Part 5 of our Sundance Labs series -- but will be back on Monday ... with a very special surprise! (No hints, sorry.) In the meantime, we thought we'd celebrate America's birthday with something of a listy standby: a round-up of terrible, weird, and generally noteworthy performances of "The Star-Spangled Banner." We've eliminated some of the clichés from the regular rotation of greatest patriotic, ear-raping hits (sorry, Roseanne), and thrown in a couple of curveballs.
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From the beer-soaked couches of Silver Lake hipster dives, to the Great Furry Happenings of New Mexico's finest fetish ranches, to the oak-walled children's playrooms on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side, not a corner of this great land of ours was left untouched by the Arcade Fire-scored trailer for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are . As the director dabs the final touches onto his magic-hour-drenched love letter to the wonders and perils of childhood, virtually no emergent detail is too small not to pass along to you, the Wild Things-curious readers.
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1) In 1989, Bollywood put out a movie entitled Nafrat Ki Aandhi, which the All Movie Guide describes as a 160-minute epic about "a police inspector who befriends [a] gambling house owner." Well, sure, that would explain why the film shuts down for a nearly six-minute musical number about action figure/children's cartoon He-Man!
2) Apparently, He-Man was big overseas in the 80's.
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