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Ahh, another romantic comedy to go along with the Wedding Crashers and Knocked Ups of the world. Following the same basic formula of those movies, Good Luck Chuck provided a decent, though not excellent adaptation of the popular genre. Starring Jessica Alba and Dane Cook, we delve into the relationship between a cursed […]

Well, I told you it would be a race, and it did turn out to be a close one this weekend — and an upset. Confounding most of the prognosticators including myself, The Game Plan finished on top with 22.6 million. So it’s victory for The Rock over The Kingdom, which wound up second. We should have known.

David Cronenberg made a vast improvement from his overrated A History of Violence with Eastern Promises. Paul Haggis, on the other hand, has made only a marginal improvement from his ridiculously overrated Oscar Winning Crash with In the Valley of Elah. In the Valley of Elah is essentially a political and condensed version of Crash and while it works well sometimes and there is nothing overall that’s bad about the movie, Haggis still doesn’t seem to be covering all the bases.

Apple finally found a way to seduce me into joining iTunes. I despise their service for both practical and personal reasons, but they’ve recently joined forces with the one person who could successfully force me over to the dark side. Natalie Portman.

To a certain degree, I was dreading The Kingdom. The first reason was that I’ve never been a big fan of Peter Berg’s films. I haven’t liked his garbage movies like Very Bad Things, and I haven’t liked his critically-acclaimed films like Friday Night Lights. I was also a big leery of seeing The Kingdom because I know how Hollywood can be with politics.

For some, the war in the Middle East is enough to drive someone to drink. Soon, the glut of modern war movies are going to drive people to drink. We’re getting a jump on this trend by offering a rock-solid drinking game for the new action drama The Kingdom. So drink up, because by the time the fall is over you’ll have had a few too many “sobering” moments.

On this week’s show, we explore the topics of the entertainment industry in the comfort of a newly redesigned Magical Studio in the Sky, all while attempting to stay awake. We continue to explore the “Dane Cook Acting Experiment”, causing Kevin to launch a campaign against Cook’s involvement in feature films. We also debate the dynamic range of Rosie O’Donnell — lookout kids, she could be the next Wonder Woman.

That, my friends, is a long title. Much longer than the original “Plane Dead,” but it’s kind of snazzy. I’d personally stay away from conjuring up memories of that awful bit of excrement called Snakes on a Plane but hey, whatever.

Every time I sit down to the day’s movie news, it seems I’m getting excited over something. Maybe it’s an exciting time we’re living in for films or maybe I’m just too geeky for my own good, but when a great concept has a great director and a slew of notables for a cast, it’s a solid reason to get excited.

There seems to be a certain career path that muscle-bound heavies take. First, they come onto the scene as a villain, as Arnold Schwarzenegger did in The Terminator. Then, they step up to the action hero, as Schwarzenegger did with films like Commando. Then, they do the fish-out-of-water family comedy, as Schwarzenegger did with Kindergarten Cop.

This weekend we’ve got a genuine fight at the top to see who is the box office champ. In one corner we got The Game Plan, starring former WWE superstar The Rock. And in the other corner, we got the Jamie Foxx action thriller The Kingdom. So who’s gonna be the box office champ? We got quite a fight shaping up this weekend from the looks of it.

OK, there’s been no actual catfighting or clawing, but Moviehole is reporting that both Chlo« Sevigny and Rachel Weisz are jockeying for the part of the female lead.

While we all know it was only a matter of time before the return of Freddy and his Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, we wondered “How long?” and “What form?” And while it’s not definitive on how he’s coming back, I can tell you straight from the horses mouth that a new Nightmare on Elm Street movies is coming your way with, of course, Robert Englund as the titular slasher.

The Academy might as well hand it over now. Morgan Freeman is developing a Nelson Mandela biopic through his production company, Revelations Entertainment, the story might as well have been that Freeman was giving away free puppies and bars of gold to Academy members.

Who watches the Watchmen? No-one…….yet. But Zack Snyder is in the process of making Watchmen, so that we can all watch them on the glorious silver screen. Take a look at his first video diary direct from the set of the 2009 release.