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John Cusack is ready to send you all to hell. The long-anticipated trailer for James McTeigue‘s “The Raven” has hit the web today and looks to be a healthy combination of horror, murder mystery and action. Basically, if someone took parts of “Sherlock Holmes,” “Se7en” and ABC’s “Castle” and threw them in a blender, this…
Cameron Crowe went to the Television Critics Association press tour last month to talk about his upcoming documentary “Pearl Jam Twenty.” But one statement the director made about a twenty year old movie ended up garnering all the headlines. Asked by a reporter whether he’d ever consider a sequel to 1989′s teen rom-com classic “Say…
Way back in 1988, John Cusack and Tim Robbins starred as two security guards with MTV dreams and a love of The Swanky Modes. They start making music videos in their spare time and their eventual success is marred by some light political intrigue. It’s a fun movie for those who grew up in the…
I never had a strong opinion on Tom Cruise. He seemed an amiable enough actor, his movies tended to be better than those of many other marquee names’ (Cruise is good at knowing and working within his range) and that was about it. And then Cruise starting ranting about Scientology, jumping on couches, calling psychiatry…
While the public serenading of someone’s object of desire is not a gesture you tend to see all that often in the real world, at least outside of karaoke parlors, it is a reliable cinematic stand-by. This is probably because it’s a gesture so fraught with the potential for embarrassment and humiliation that it’s safer…
At a certain point in your life, there’ll be a moment in which you find yourself in a beautiful house, or behind the wheel of a large automobile, asking yourself well… how did I get here? Or at least that’s what the movies (and, of course, David Byrne) have taught us. This week on the…
Reviewing today’s much-anticipated-by-ironists romantic drama “Remember Me,” the AV Club‘s Scott Tobias notes in passing that the film attempts to turn Robert Pattinson “into the millennial James Dean.” That’s an interesting thought — Dean is one of those icons rooted in his time, not someone who created a living archetype that people still try to…
Right now, much of the east coast is effectively snowbound. Since we’re all stuck here in front of our computers while the rest of the country, here’s seven memorable on-screen snowstorms to wile away the long hours. “The Fatal Glass of Beer” (1933) A Canadian Mountie walks into W.C. Fields’ cabin, with a big gust…
Though it feels like it’s been advertised since 2005, “2012″ doesn’t come out until November 13: John Cusack, buildings get destroyed, humanity struggles against itself, the nuclear family survives, etc, etc. And now we have a music video to go with all that rote destruction: Adam Lambert’s “Time For Miracles.” As a song, “Time For…
As part of the giant marketing campaign behind the latest Roland Emmerich apocalypse porn extravaganza “2012,” Sony Pictures released a five-minute clip of the film showcasing just a few of the no doubt many ways mass destruction will be wreaked within its full run-time. And no sooner was that accomplished than some pseudonymous smartass used…
By Aaron Hillis Cult author Mark Leyner hit his stride in the ’90s with meta-fictional novels (“Et Tu, Babe,” “The Tetherballs of Bougainville”) and short story collections (“My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist,” “Tooth Imprints on a Corn Dog”), all hilariously overstimulated, fantastical parodies of mass culture and ephemeral trends both highbrow and low. He created and…
