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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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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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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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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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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Project Runway's long, litigious journey from Bravo birthplace to its new home at Lifetime Television for Decidedly Un-Ferosh Women ends on August 20th, when the fashion design contest debuts its sixth season. In order to ease their audience into the proceedings, the cable network created a promotional campaign that tweaks, ever-so-unsubtly, the image of Runway as a show made by and for Bluefly-wall-accessorizing BravoGays™.
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We'll admit to having had a knee-jerk reaction to some of the early teaser footage released by Disney of their forthcoming and much-ballyhooed return to hand-drawn animation, The Princess and the Frog, which struck us as hopping a little too close to the outdated-caricature pond for our tastes.
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In a week when Michael Jackson and Michael Bay share top billing in the zeitgeist, it seems only fitting that some overlap of the two would soon emerge to blow everyone's minds. Leave it to a Movieline tipster to find the Rosetta Stone, pointing us back to that glorious day in 1988 when Jackson's film Moonwalker featured the King of Pop in an epic, bittersweet transition from man to machine, saving the world from Joe Pesci and defending Sean Lennon's (among others') innocence in the process. If you've got about 10 minutes -- and for this kind of milestone, you'd better -- grab some Kleenex and flash back with us after the jump.
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It's recruiting season again at the Church of Scientology, where three stylish new TV spots make all the drama of life -- including love, chocolate and "kids on trampolines" -- seem insurmountable without the aid of a gauzy camera filter and, I presume, a dogeared copy of Dianetics on your nightstand. But is Hollywood's greatest indigenous religion pushing the wrong message? Are paper clips really a gateway office supply to OT-VIII glory? Judge for yourself and join the debate after the jump.
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Yesterday was not a good day -- not a good day for anyone, but particularly not a good day for guerrilla character comics with massive movie premieres at the Chinese Theater that blocked access to the Walk of Fame star of the victim of the most shocking and monumental musical icon death since John Lennon's. Add to that fact that the movie itself had a scene in which the victim's sister is humiliated for comedy bloodsport, edited out at the eleventh hour, and you start seeing why Sacha Baron Cohen was so subdued on last night's The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
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Videogum posted a trailer that's been making the rounds -- Sarah Silverman tweeted about it recently, and it really started to catch fire -- for a film called Gooby, but which has affectionately been dubbed Pedobear: The Movie by the YouTube commenting community.
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So a demi-Vulcan is walking his dog with his buddies -- a walking steak and a butcher, no big whoop -- and the dog goes after some paparazzi, causing the demi-Vulcan to take a tumble and get very upset. Got it? Now, you could enjoy this clip for what it is -- a delightful bit of impromptu celebrity Dada theater -- or you can be like me, and seek answers:
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