With XMas having passed, the web now turns to it's yearly job of try to "top" the famous "Nintendo 64 Kid" video fro...
What, you were expecting me to take the day off? And here's INTERMISSION, in which I do the year-end top-ten thing:\ http://www.escapist...
Escape to the Movies: "Sherlock Holmes"
Comingsoon has the new trailer for the "Karate Kid" remake, which for those who hadn't heard takes a pretty radical story-devi...
Karate (?) Kid
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=26568 What. The. Fuck? Not much to say about this save that it sucks. She worked so intermitt...
Brittany Murphy, RIP
You were expecting, maybe, "Did You Hear About The Morgans?" http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/133...
Escape to the Movies: "Avatar"
When you're a movie geek, some days look like this: ITEM: After departing the "X-Men" series to make a perhaps-too-introspecti...
2 steps forward, 1 step back?
Apple (and now everyone else) has the Iron Man 2 trailer, already up: http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/ Not much that hasn...
Iron Man 2
Sometimes, it's helpful to remember that all the GOOD points of the Hollywood "blockbuster machine" having been taken over by ...
Alice in Thunderdome
COMING SOON has the first actual trailer (an "international" sizzle-reel type thing) for Ridley Scott's "Robin Hood"...
Kingdom of Gladiator Hood
CHUD points the way to a new, longer trailer for the "Clash of the Titans" remake. It's basically a longer, smoother version o...
Damn The Gods
The critics are starting to see "Avatar," (no, I haven't yet) and the early world is damn-near through the roof... EXACTLY the...
The moment?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1219-Bad-Lieutenant And here's this week's "Intermission,...
Escape to the Movies: "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans"
FYI guys, the new 30th episode of "Game OverThinker," a side-by-side of "Modern Warfare 2" and "New Super Mario Bro...
New "OverThinker" at ScrewAttack
So, folks... what do we make of this trailer for Disney/Bruckheimer's new fantasy-actioner "The Sorceror's Apprentice," a...
Sorceror's Apprentice
Universal's remake of "The Wolf Man," with Benicio Del Toro as the title monster, has had easily the most (publically) problem...
Finally, GOOD NEWS about "The Wolf Man."
File this under "probably strange enough to be semi-true," but Movieline says they know who the new people are in "Spider-Man...
Spider-Man 4 to get it half right?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1155-Ninja-Assassin And here's this week's "Intermission,...
Escape to the Movies: "Ninja Assassin"
Alright, enough is enough. I didn't write anything at first after seeing "The Blind Side" because it left my largely unaffecte...
The Blind Side
The real brilliance of Seth Green and Matthew Senreich's "Robot Chicken" is that it may be the first sketch comedy series to ...
His blood runs through my instrument
I wish it was better. ("Intermission" should be up around 5pm ET on The Escapist)
Escape to the Movies: "The Road"
So I finally saw "Precious: Based On the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," which has become this year's movie that people ju...
Precious: Based On the Watching of the Movie "Precious: Based On the Novel "Push" by Sapphire" by MovieBob
I dunno how many people remember to check it out here and there, but Matthew Taranto and Chris Seward's "Brawl in The Family" ...
WATCH/READ THIS: "Ode to Minions"
Guess how it was. Go on, guess. And here's this week's "Intermission," which is also about "Twilight" though sig...
Escape to the Movies: "New Moon"
Heading out to a "Ninja Assassin" screening and a midnight of "New Moon" - since my press-invite seems to have gotten ...
I wholeheartedly support this unlikely and possibly baselass rumor
To celebrate the release of "Star Trek" on DVD, The Escapist has bumped my theatrical review of the film back onto the homepage. S...
Star Trek, again
And yet MORE about "2012" and Roland Emmerich in this week's INTERMISSION: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/colum...
Escape to the Movies: "2012"
Just got done watching the newest "South Park," titled "Dances With Smurfs." Let it be said for the record that not onl...
This is why South Park still matters
Below, the trailer for the Louis Leterrier directed remake of "Clash of The Titans." I just want to point something out here: The ...
That'll do nicely
Here's a bit of a flip-side "rhyme" entry to the Natalie-Portman-becomes-veganism-evangelist piece from last Thursday: Actor A...
...and you don't even have to play it backwards!
Part of the lead-up to having review-screened "Boondock Saints" last week was the opportunity to sit down for a roundtable intervi...
"Boondock Saints" press event
Points for cojones, at least. Barrie Osbourne is producing a biopic of Muhammad: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/nov/02/matrix-producer-...
I wonder which word they WON'T be using if it underperforms at the boxoffice...
So say The USA Today, Shawn Levy - the Michael Bay of safe, empty family-comedy - will direct a live-action (huh?) adaptation of "The B...
Berentein Bears... really?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/escape-to-the-movies/1051-Boondock-Saints-II And here's my "Halloween Movies You Might...
Escape to the Movies: "Boondock Saints 2"
So, apparently, I must now add "Veganism" to the ever-growing list of "things I have to pretend to like if I ever meet Natali...
Must be tofu, cuz beef don't shake like that
As President Obama continues the Democrat's sisyphean quest for Health Care reform, perhaps he can take some measure of comfort from the...
In other news, I hear Leatherface is stumping for immigration reform...
Apparently, this isn't a hoax: Paul Haggis ( "Crash" ) has publically ditched his 30+ year membership in the controversial Chu...
Haggis quits Scientology
Web personality "That Dude in The Shades" has, quite graciously, featured me in his ongoing series "The Internet Hall of Fame...
Internet Hall of Fame
A friend from YouTube points me to an image that effectively ends a rather passively-undertaken "search" the origins of which date...
cross that one of the list...
Review of "Paranormal Activity," now up at The Escapist: EDIT: Here's this week's "Intermission," as well: http:...
Escape to the Movies: "Paranormal Activity"
One can rest assured that, in the modern Hollywood, the town is currently FULL of producers and executives who's job it is to "opti...
A boy can dream
This week's "MovieBob Intermission" column is about Roman Polanski. Because it's kind of obligatory at this point... http:...
new "Intermission"
Is it too much to ask that a moratorium be called on invoking Michael Vick EVERY FUCKING TIME a celebrity who is NOT Michael Vick get's ...
Is it too much to ask?
I've been extended the opportunity to pen a weekly (I believe) column for The Escapist, in addition to the reviews. Yay! Entry numero un...
"MovieBob: Intermission"
This is a SPOILER-FREE review, just so you know. You will NOT learn "the secret" from me, and if you DON'T see "spoiler-f...
Escape to the Movies: "Zombieland"
Saw the new Michael Moore movie today. Curious to see how it actually does. At this point, "responding" to Mr. Moore's movies ...
Capitalism
Myspace has the HD trailer for Platinum Dunes' "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake up, here's the embedd: http://vids.myspace...
"Nightmare" trailer
Well, this didn't exactly take long even on a Sunday... Predictably, L'Affaire Polanski ceased to be about the particulars of extrad...
Polanski, Part II
In case you were nervous that 2009 was going to close without a big "Hollywood Values vs. Reg'ler Amrrrrc'n Values" dustup...