Wednesday, January 30, 2008 Rant Archive
AMERICAN IDOL has reached its “loathsome” stage of the season. It started right at the opening of tonight’s episode with a profoundly amateurish parody of the MIAMI VICE credit sequence replete with the Jan Hammer instrumental and continued on through the auditions that were wholly predictable and genuinely boring.
Sophie (Mia Wasikowska) Dr. Paul Weston’s (Gabriel Byrne) Wednesday patient is IN TREATMENT because her mother thinks she attempted suicide. Twice. Sophie, 16, is a potential Olympic gymnast. She’s the U.S. Junior Champ and has been at it for about a decade. But this is not a happy time for her; she seems very troubled.
Latino Review is reporting that Arnold Vosloo—best known as ‘Imhotep’ in THE MUMMY series—will once again team with director Stephen Sommers to play the character of Zartan in the upcoming
G.I. JOE movie.
Find out more inside, Go Joe!
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, based on the 2002 memoir by bestselling author Augusten Burroughs, tells the story of a young man (Joseph Cross) whose divorcee mother (Annette Bening), an eccentric, borderline schizophrenic poet, abandons him into the care of her equally unhinged therapist (Brian Cox).
Did you know that Universal was working on a remake of their 1941 classic THE WOLF MAN? Me neither. Apparently, they are, but the studio has to get over a little snag: the director
just quit. Yes, Mark Romanek, whose directorial debut was the 2002 Robin Williams creep-fest ONE-HOUR PHOTO, has departed the project over the much-cited “creative differences,” which reportedly also included differences over the budget.
Will Smith’s latest summer blockbuster, director Peter Berg’s (THE KINGDOM) superhero comedy HANCOCK, recently got its hype-machine in motion, debuting an amusing and eye-popping trailer, which features a drunken superguy crashing into freeway signs while FUI (that’s “flying under the influence” for you slow-pokes); causing train wrecks while demonstrating that he is indeed more powerful than a locomotive; and playing ring-toss with beached whales
This week Middle America plans to wow the AMERICAN IDOL judges with their singing prowess by journeying to Omaha, Nebraska and probably making a fool of themselves. Thank god AI is around so I have something basic to count on. Since the writer’s strike continues Ryan Secrest’s stupid intros continue to compel me to cross WGA picket lines and give him something interesting to say. This is AI’s first time in Nebraska and I am going to venture that it will be their last since it is Nebraska.
After rounds of
speculation Paramount made the official
announcement today that actor Channing Tatum (STEP UP) has been cast in the role of G.I. JOE leader Duke. The studio went on to then drop the bomb that actor Dennis Quaid would also be joining the JOE cast as Duke’s boss and mentor General Hawk.
Find out more about G.I. JOE inside.
Kyle and his wife decide to visit McNamera & Troy after they survived a treacherous car wreck in the snow where they were trapped for ten days. While waiting for help his wife becomes increasingly ill from hypoglycemia and instead of letting her die he carves out parts of his forearm and feeds them to her. Now he needs the giant wounds fixed up, wounds like the ones in Christian’s (Dylan Walsh) cold heart from screwing stupid Gina off the balcony.
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Ain’t It Cool News recently reported on some rumors that a BATTLESTAR GALACTICA prequel, entitled “Caprica,” may be edging closer to production. Allegedly a script for the prequel was completed some time ago, only to be left on the shelf, gathering dust. However, with the WGA strike still going strong, studios are beginning to revisit their stockpiles of forgotten scripts, hoping to find new programming, ready for production
Want to know when a really lousy time to air your Christmas episode is, even for one of the best scripted TV dramas on air? The end of January. So it went with the return of new episodes of HOUSE M.D. This writer’s strike has to be settled soon. My entertainment digestive system is starting to feel like I’ve been on a three week road trip inhaling diesel fumes for oxygen and burnt coffee for fiber. I’m not working at peak capacity and watching a Christmas miracle is a little tough when the credit card bill rolls in demanding attention for the end of the year follies.
Movie monsters never die, especially not if there’s one more dollar to be squeezed out of them. According to Variety, New Line has finally gotten around to resurrecting yet another horror franchise from the glorious 1980s: Freddy Kreuger. That’s right, Ol’ Claw Hands is coming back, courtesy of Platinum Dunes, the production company tasked by New Line to relaunch the franchise, which has stretched over nine films and two TV shows.