The Category is Summer Movies Answer: “Year One” The Question: Name the movie that is written and directed by Harold Ramis (of “Ghostbusters” and “Stripes” fame), co-produced by Judd Apatow (of “40 Year-old Virgin” and “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” fame), and stars Jack Black, Michael Cera, Oliver Platt, David Cross, and Hank Azaria. With talent such [...]

ERIK BUCKMAN: Romantic comedies, like nearly every film in the horror genre, have a small playing field and a list of guidelines in which to play from. Here’s a list of some of those guidelines: 1. You must have an “airport scene.” You know, where the guy sprints to the airport to declare his love [...]

Is there really no escape from the living dead? Zombies have found their way to school curriculum (Max Brooks’ masterful novel World War Z can be found in the required reading section of your book store) and they have always been a part of mainstream cinema from The Night of the Living Dead right up [...]

In the Italian language, the word Il Divo means bluntly ‘the male star’ or ‘male diva’. Within the seven terms that Prime Minister and Christian Democrat leader Giulio Andreotti reigned upon Italy, he took the spotlight politically from the late seventies to the early nineties. Forming during his career a wide range cabinet of people [...]

Screw you, I like Michael Bay. Yeah, the guy made Pearl Harbor and likely he’ll never get over that one but the guy knows what he is (as evidenced by the awesome Verizon commercial.) Whether it’s the pure hilariously badness of Armageddon or the greatness that is Bad Boys II, Bay has mostly delivered on [...]

I’m not sure what’s worse: the direct-to-disc Donnie Darko sequel, S. Darko, or the troubling prospect that 20th Century Fox will begin production on another sequel to the cult favorite? But for those who viewed S. Darko and left with a bitter taste, fear not Bunny People, original Darko scribe Richard Kelly is reportedly back [...]

How interested are you in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? Interested enough to read technical yet fascinating  tidbits from Industrial Light & Magic regarding  the film’s presentation? You are one interested mutha’. Check out the below fact sheet. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is due out June 26th. COOL FACTS 14 robots last time, 46 [...]

Finally. Something else I can add to my wall. The new international poster for Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds has hit grandma’s interwebs and we are lucky enough to find it. Maintaining the true international poster style, this one-sheet is mostly lame with a side of a haunting Eli Roth. But, with that said, it appears [...]