Believe the hype. "X-Men: First Class" is incredible, easily superior to all four previous films in the series and a must-see fo...
...BUT I'm not above aluding to it for attention ;) More after the jump, for benefit of people who have an issue with political stuff on...
I Don't Care About Anthony Weiner's Penis...
THE BEAVER (Dir. Jodie Foster, 2011) So, here's this film's story - a toy company CEO is in a deep dark funk. He's uncommunicat...
A Failed Attempt At Redemption Through Puppetry
Yeah, I'll say it: I wanna see this. George Miller's original "Happy Feet" is easily one of the most bizzare family movies...
"Happy Feet" Returns
HELL. FUCKING. YES. Takashi Miike - one of Japan's most prolific and unusual filmmakers - has signed to direct the live-action adaptatio...
Takashi Miike to direct "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney" Movie!!!
THE HANGOVER PART II (Dir. Todd Phillips, 2011) The sequel to the largest grossing R-Rated comedy of all time is exactly everything I thoug...
THE HANGOVER PART II: The Film Babble Blog Review
Memo to Neil Patrick Harris: You've already proven that you're the coolest cat on the planet, and thus can come out of even the most...
Smurfs Trailer
Via EW... The whole "race to the bottom" story of studios greenlighting a "franchise movie" based on ANYTHING seems to h...
An Epic For Our Age
A new trailer reveals that the new story "Call of Duty" fans will be skipping entirely on their way to engage in online deathmatc...
Modern War 3 Trailer Teases World War III
POM WONDERFUL PRESENTS: THE GREATEST STORY EVER SOLD (Dir. Morgan Spurlock, 2011) Morgan Spurlock made a name for himself with SUPER SIZE M...
Product Place Me
Now this is a puzzle. Why would Jason Segel and Amy Adams - two stars with rapidly-rising bigtime cache - step up for what looks like just a...
Where Did "Green With Envy" Trailer Come From?
I'm back on the Post-Movie Podcast this week, for "Pirates" and other goodies:
Post-Movie Podcast "Pirates"
Drew McWeeny, pound-for-pound the best overall film-journalist to emerge from the "movie-geek boom" of the late-1990s (as AICN...
McWeeny Raves For "First Class"
"Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" is over 2 hours long. Despite that, by the time it's over a HUGE number of seem...
20 Things That Still Don't Make Sense From "Pirates"
...doesn't raise hopes that they've fixed the problem: Good gravy, how AWESOME is the first leg of this trailer? Sombre, epic, power...
Green Lantern's "3D Trailer"...
Pro-wrestling legend Randy Savage (born Randall Mario Poffo) is dead. He suffered a heart-attack while driving, lost control of his car, and...
Randy "Macho Man" Savage has died
Summer 2011 has it's first official dud. The embed isn't working for some reason, here's a link to the site itself again until i...
Escape to the Movies: "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides"
...in as much as he's very big, and has black mask. The obligatory "Dark Knight Rises" viral campaign begins today, with this...
Bane looks more-or-less like Bane...
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (Dir. Rob Marshall, 2011) Never believe the hype. The word was that this was supposed to be the...
On Shallower Tides...
Y'know, the problem isn't that "talking animals help a dipshit zookeeper get laid" is in itself a bad idea for a comedy......
"Zookeeper"
Below, the new(er) trailer for "Friends With Benefits." Might as well be right upfront about this: YES, it is in fact kinda funny...
This again
Of the many crimes the "Twilight" phenomenon has committed against genre fiction and the vampire-subgenre in particular, by far th...
"We Are The Night" U.S. trailer
I'm back on "Extra Consideration" this week, talking the School Shooter Mod with James Portnow and Jim Sterling. ALSO! The Ot...
Extra Consideration (UPDATED!)
This is good, because I was just the other day thinking "y'know what we need another of? Movies where enlightened White People tea...
"The Help"
EVERYTHING MUST GO (Dir. Dan Rush, 2011) Usually the summer movie season is time for a big dumb Will Ferrell comedy, but not this time arou...
EVERYTHING MUST GO: The Film Babble Blog Review
Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" is one of the most controversial movies ever made; and certain parts of it remain a tough sit to...
"Straw Dogs" remake has a trailer
Oh, good. Blogger is back up for a few minutes... Intermission: "What's What In 'Thor'?"
Escape to the Movies: "Troll Hunter"
BRIDESMAIDS (Dir. Paul Feig, 2011) On his highly addictive popcast “WTF,” comedian Marc Maron often talks about comic actors that have a g...
