With a depression inches away and hurricanes and terrorists and pirates in Somalia and madmen running Iran and all the assorted whatnots and goings-on of the world around us, it’s hard to imagine how things could get any worse. Certainly, how things could get any weirder.

And then a new horror movie was announced.  This by itself would mean almost less than nothing–such things are announced every couple of hours without the world exploding.  So what’s got me so bent out of shape on this one?  SImple.  It’s the star of this particular horror movie, called Against The Dark, that’s set my head all a-spinning.

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Remember what I was saying a couple months ago about Blockbuster getting just truly desperate?  Yeah…that hasn’t changed.  No, not at all.

They’ve allied themselves with LiveNation to start selling their concert tickets in Blockbuster outlets.  For the next three years, Blockbuster will have exclusive blocks of seating to various concerts and kick back a portion to LiveNation.  And the funny part is?  It’s not just Blockbuster’s desperation driving this deal–it’s Hannah Montana.

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Call it schaudenfreude if you must, folks, but I’m all sorts of tickled that that miserable piece of crap of a vampire film, Twilight, is losing a whole LOT of steam at the box office.

How much is “a whole lot”, you ask?

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Apparently, they’ve got a writer for the Planet of the Apes prequel, a move that has me somewhat baffled.

They’ll be bringing in Scott Frank, formerly of Minority Report, to handle the scripting duties on that one, suggesting that if nothing else the script should turn out solidly enough.  But that’s not where my concern is–my concern is in the existence of this movie in the first place.

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There are times when I’d love–LOVE!–to slap a celebrity.

There are usually several REASONS for that kind of teeth-grinding rage, of course, from their sanctimony to their holier-than-thou behavior to why they’re getting paid criminally monstrous sums of money for work they do that can be done by absolutely ANYONE ELSE for much less money. And sometimes, it’s their sheer out-and-out stupidity that makes me long to slap a bitch.

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