Screenwriter John August, who I have been reading (on his blog and IMDb) for many years, and have been watching lazily since Charlie’s Angels and more closely since Big Fish has a great post on his blog today about an overused film cliché (I copied and pasted that accented ‘é’ because I have no clue how to type it!). Read More »

The Writers Guild of America (WGA)- i.e. the labor union for screenplay writers- just released their picks for the top 101 screenplays of all time as voted by members of the guild. Read More »

This is an idea that was made for the internet age: the Movie Timeline.

This is not a timeline based on when the movie was released but rather based on when events within the movie ocurred! That means that in the same month in 1990, Dr. Hammond built the Jurassic Park while seven strangers hid in a farmhouse as the bodies of the recent dead reactivate and attempt to eat them in Night of the Living Dead. Yeah, that kind of movie timeline- one that spans from the beginning of time (when God created the heavens and Earth from The Bible) to 865,427,810 A.D. when Hartdegen briefly visits future earth in The Time Machine and one that you can contribute to. Enjoy!

• Jamming Cell Phone Signals at the Movies (261)
• Netflix Ratings (128)
• King Kong (2005) (108)
• My Best of 2005 (104)
• Before Night Falls (2000) (100)

Last week I chronicled my search for a Hindi song that I had been tracking down for ages. This week, I found another one. This time, the search has been 11 years in the making. Read More »

So far, 2006 has been a dull month. With not many Oscar hopefuls in the marketplace and January sluggishness now extending into March sluggishness, the only people who have had anything to cheer about this year have been Horror fans.

And I am not a horror fan.

So, here are the movies I am most looking forward to in 2006: Read More »

According to reports, today marks a “watershed event for Hollywood in the digital age”. Starting this week, Movielink and CinemaNow are going to offer digital movies to download the same day as DVDs hit retail outlets. From the article: “Both sites will allow consumers to copy digital movies for backup use. Those copies will be software protected so they can not be burned onto DVD discs and replayed on DVD players.” The prices range from $10 to $30. Read More »

Yesterday was April Fool’s day and here are a few of my favorite movie-related pranks from the day:

• Madea as Hell and Not Gonna Take It! at ComingSoon.net : How Hollywood is bending over backwards to build the Madea franchise.
• The Wookiepedia had Earth as a Featured Article :

  Earth was an Outer Rim planet notable for its biological diversity, which could be compared to other Human worlds like Corellia, Alderaan and Naboo, and its inhabitants’ claims that Earth was the origin of the Human species.

  Was?
• Music And Film Industry Association of America

  Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) chairman Dan Glickman and Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) president Cary Sherman today announced the historic merger of the two organizations. The newly-created entity is being called the Music And Film Industry Association of America, Inc.

Of the couple of thousand movies that I have watched in my life, 30 of them were directed by Woody Allen. This is, without a doubt, the most movies I have watched by any single writer or director.

While Allen usually chooses to cast himself as a version of Alvy Singer- the nebbish, once in a while he makes a movie without himself. Here are the greats from among them: Read More »