2009 Oscar Live Shorts piece is up! Check back SOON for Animated! YOUR OSCAR POOL: LIVE ACTION SHORTS Again trying to give you an edge to you Oscar Pool, I recently got to check out the Academy Award Nominated Live Action shorts. While each of these quickies are good, not a single one really knocked […]

2009 Oscar Live Action Shorts piece is up now. Animated going sometime this week! Check Back! You know that person that who always wins the Oscar Office pool? That New York refugee who dresses in black, smokes cloves, bemoans the loss of “the theater” and will only go see flix (I’m sorry “cinema”) when Jim […]

RIpped off From WireImage A boss once gave me some great advice: “Sundance is for B-Listers and Hacks.” Well like most things (like, “If you quit, you will be making a huge mistake”) he was right. In fact, Sundance isn’t even for B-Listers and Hacks anymore. Ever since its Tarantino, Rodriguez, Smith, “Bottle Rocket”  heyday […]

Jack and Snack Hello, Smitty (assistant to the Talent Agent to the Stars) here1  Ah, the Globes. Mother loves the Golden Globes. For the longest time she wanted me to be the first “Mr. Golden Globes” and follow in the footsteps of the Grand Dames of the Golden Globes like Helen Hunt, Laura Dern and […]

Editor’s Note: This story is not made up. Dozens of pickets lined Main Street in the tiny rural town of Baylord in Recession suffering Michigan.  No they weren’t with any union against the massive lay-offs and downsizing the state had been suffering do the short falls of the car manufactures, namely Ford and GM.  No, […]

ROMANCE AND CIGARETTES is an absurdist blue collar melo-musical featuring a Rockstar cast. James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Christopher Walken and a scorching Kate Winslet sing and dance their way through a tale of a dysfunctional family that is way beyond tuning up.  While the characters (not the actors) have less than perfect voices and moves, […]

The Tim Burton/Johnny Depp Sondheim adapt serves up a bloody good time. While the tone does feel a bit too familiar (i.e."Nightmare meets Scissorhands") the gorefest tuner delivers. Based a rumored story, Benjamin Barker returns to his lethargic London roots after spending 15 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. Bent on avenging […]

Now I am not one to Blog Bash but the heavily traveled “The Movie Blog” (The Home of Correct Movie Reviews) has really gotten in my craw.  Their recent rants against the WGA strike show a complete lack of general information of how Hollywood really works. These normally good natured Canucks, with an overwhelming love […]

It has been tipped off to us by the always accurate (when sober) Dick “Partridge” Hollywood that Oscar Winner Quentin Tarantino was driving his bright yellow Mustang down Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood last Friday. The street had been temporarily closed off and Tarrantino hastily summoned a cop to allow him to flip a U-iee and […]

Director Julian Schnabel’s (“Basquiat”) new film "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Le Scaphandre et le Papillon)” is top notch triumph in the exploration of an extremely claustrophobic subject. Winner of the Best Director Prize this year at the Cannes Film Festival this is a visually engrossing film, but watch out– it's not all eye […]