Ed Driscoll THE RAZZIES: With all of the talk about the Oscars, I've seen little in Blogland about the Razzies, their annual competitors, who handout awards for the worst films in Hollywood. This...
Ed Driscoll DUDLEY MOORE DEAD AT 66: The Washington Post is reporting that Dudley Moore, "who became an unlikely Hollywood heart-throb portraying a cuddly pipsqueak whose charm melted hearts in "10"...
Ed Driscoll GEEZ, BILLY WILDER DIED AS WELL YESTERDAY. The Internet Movie Database's home page says: "In an unbelievable boost to those who love to claim that famous people die in threes, Variety...
Ed Driscoll OUR SOURCE WAS THE NEW YORK TIMES: Actually, a reader tipped us to this--The Times has a semi-regular column where they get a director to watch a classic film and comment on it. This time,...
Ed Driscoll TREKKIES UPDATE: As I said here, we watched Trekkies earlier this week. The Digital Bits has an extensive interview with the film's director, Roger Nygard, including how the strange...
Ed Driscoll A while back, I mentioned Black Hawk Down, and that it would be coming out on DVD. Here are the details, from The Digital Bits:We've gotten details on Columbia TriStar's Black Hawk Down...
Ed Driscoll A friend of ours invited Nina and I to see Kissing Jessica Stein today. What a fun movie--with the feeling of a hip Gen-X Annie Hall, the sort of film Woody Allen used to make in the...
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IN THE PAST DECADE, Broadway has been reintroduced to the work of an American dramatist whose worldwide fame never quite translated into proper respect. He was an innovator and a craftsman, and yet his...
Ed Driscoll GEORGE WILL ON HAMBURGERS, CARS AND DEMOCRACIES: Sounding remarkably like my wife's post yesterday on hamburgers and freedom, George Will (by way of Stephen Green's VodkaPundit site)...
Ed Driscoll Roger Ebert buries The Last Waltz,which is being released to theaters as part of its 25th anniversary: Drugs are possibly involved. Memoirs recalling the filming report that cocaine was...
Ed Driscoll My wife and a friend of ours and I saw Robert Altman's latest film, Gosford Park today. She liked it, I wasn't as crazy about it, but it was a reasonably pleasant couple of hours. The...
Ed Driscoll THE EMPIRE HITS A TRIPLE: Hey, at least it doesn't strike out. Bill Hunt of The Digital Bits gets a sneak preview of Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones:Okay... right now you're...
Ed Driscoll "GANGS OF NEW YORK": There's trouble on the set of Martin Scorsese's new film, "Gangs of New York", according to Matt Drudge, who has a sneak preview of a July Esquire article. Here's...
Ed Driscoll WAR & POPCORN: Looking for something to rent from Blockbusters? Several National Review Online writers pick the best war films of all time. I'd add "Full Metal Jacket", and "Apocalypse...
Ed Driscoll Saw Enigma last night, a film completed in 2001, but only released in the US this year. It was produced by Mick Jagger, and Lorne Michaels (he of Saturday Night Live, Wayne's World and...
VodkaPundit Scooby Doo was not a good show. Hanna-Barbera animation at its second-worst, an uninspired concept, annoying voice acting, and tired sight gags. Even as a young'un, I couldn't stand...
Ed Driscoll GREASE IS THE WORD: Fans of John Travolta's late 70s and early 80s dance films Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy and Stayin' Alive, will soon be able to experience disco bliss...
Ed Driscoll MEN IN BLACK II: Nina and I saw MIBII on Friday night. If you're among the five people in America who haven't seen it yet, here's my take: the same formula that made the first MIB work...
Hello. My name is John, and I'm a soap-opera addict. At this point, you're supposed to shout, "Hello, John," so that I will feel welcomed and safe while discussing my addiction. But I know that even in...
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