The rainbow-colored mystery (okay, mostly blue) that is the Smurfs movie continues to deepen. Granted, a Smurfs movie sounds like a perfectly awful idea right out of the box. But then came news that Alan Cumming had somehow been convinced to play the voice of Gutsy Smurf, while Neil Patrick Harris would play [...]

So, the soul-sucking void that is the annual Academy Awards wasn’t quite as sucky as anticipated. In fact, things started off quite well when Christoph Waltz won his well-deserved and much-predicted Oscar for Best Supporting Actor (Inglourious Basterds). Then, things launched into a sharp downward trajectory when Quentin Tarantino got robbed of the Best Original [...]

Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is on my short list of all-time favorite Tarantino movies, and Gogo Yubari is one of my favorite characters. (Based on my track record, she’s exactly the sort of woman I’d be likely to wind up dating. Briefly.) At any rate, it’s nice to report that Gog recovered [...]

It’s been mentioned more than once on this blog that James Cameron is kind of an asshole. An industrial strength, weapons grade, uncut Afghan black tar asshole. And, much like his film career, Cameron doesn’t rest on his past achievements. In the wake of Avatar, now that everyone feels that three is [...]

To raise money for Haiti earthquake victims, The Weinstein Company and Quentin Tarantino have joined forces with SA Studios Global’s Film Marketing Division to sell off “The “Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds.” The entire collection consists of strikingly gorgeous, six-of-a-kind posters, but my favourite just happens to be the upper left version (it’s very Eduardo [...]

Screen Actors Guild Awards, 02/01/2010Eli Roth, Jackie Ido, Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Omar Doom, B.J. Novak

In the past month (give or take), I’ve pestered four people, who had not previously not done so, into watching Inglourious Basterds. All four of them absolutely loved the movie, so what are you waiting for? Incidentally, Christoph Waltz appeared [...]

Vanity Fair has posted its new Hollywood Portfolio, which features actor/director duos who have worked intriguing artistic liasons. Personally, I’m growing weary of “the epic romance of Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz,” but there are some great photos that include Quentin Tarantino with Christoph Waltz as “The Hellions”:
From the raw material of an Italian-made late-70s [...]

Over the weekend, Brad Pitt (after extricating himself from his position at the bottom of the Jolie-Pitt tackle pile) not only attended the Directors Guild Of America Awards but also presented Quentin Tarantino with the “Feature Film Nomination Plaque” for Inglourious Basterds. All appeared to go well except for the moment when Pitt (see below [...]