I know. That's exactly what you think Margaret Thatcher would look like in a movie.
Sure, her skin and hair are better, but it's the movies after all.
I will be forever amazed by how Meryl Streep becomes these people she plays. She certainly looks like her and you know that Meryl will have the performance down.
This is a TV blog. I know. I love Meryl Streep.
Follow the movie's progress at the official blog at this link.
Actually, the might stop him from walking out the door with this, the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, from where it is right now at WonderCon in San Francisco.
Just tweeted from the Game of Thrones Twitter account from that very event, where Wilson is doing promotion and press for his film opening this weekend, Super, co-starring Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon and Nathan Fillion.
Video in support of both projects right here by clicking this link (Game of Thrones, a behind the scenes) or this one (Super, the theatrical trailer), because who cares? Well, besides CBS, I mean.
Me, I care. Deeply.
You love her on Eureka, and now Salli has a new film out that's getting released in an innovative way and I thought it would be good form to give it a little play.
It's a drama about cancer, and I know that's, uh, heavy, but when you think about the films that get financed through the major studios you don't see a lot of dramas with African-American leads. Frankly most of the films from the studios with people of color in the leads that get any sort of wide release are broad comedies from Tyler Perry and Ice Cube.
BTW, For Colored Girls ... is the exception that validates the rule. And from what I'm heard (haven't seen it, though I saw it twice on Broadway) it wasn't a success.
CNN's Don Lemon talked to Salli, co-star Omari Hardwick, who is hooooooooot, and writer/director Ava DuVernay. The film also stars Traci Thoms (Rent & upcoming in NBNC's Wonder Woman) and I'm under the impression there's a cameo from Blair Underwood.
More about DuVernay and the film at this link at IndieWire.com.
CNN clip and the trailer for the movie after the jump.
Continue reading "CNN Video -- Eureka Star Salli Richardson-Whitfield's New Film" »
And there's a video bonus clip after the jump where Bill Hader explains the origins on Stefon on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, but first ...
Jeff Labreque in Entertainment Weekly this morning has an item about Hader and whether there are negotiations going on for him to take a role in Ghostbusters 3:
“I don’t know where that [rumor] came from. I have not gotten a call. I don’t know anything about the plot. I was very flattered to have people talking about me online in conjunction with that project. I love the Ghostbusters franchise and was so excited to hear there might be another one.”
(snip)
The good news? Well, he’s game… and available. Asked whether he’d be interested in fighting slime, Hader left no doubt. “In a heartbeat. Oh my god. Are you kidding? Do you have to even ask? It’s f—ing Ghostbusters. Classic. And if the rumors on the Internet are true that it would start shooting this summer, I would like to remind everyone that I am available, as that will be during my hiatus.”
But could you imagine Stefon as the new receptionist in that converted firehouse? That would be epic. "Ghostbusting? It's got everything ... sliming, Zuul, a dog that calls himself the keymaster ..."
I just hope they can fit in a reference to Puerto Rican Screeches, "Tranderson Cooper" or "Blingo." (watch it by clicking this.)
Your bonus clip is after the jump.
Yeah yeah, I don't do movies. But I'm doing this movie.
Pegg, Frost, Rogen, Bill Hader, Kristin Wiig, Jason Bateman, Sigourney Weaver, Jane Lynch, Blythe Danner, Jeffrey Tambor, David Koechner.
It's after the jump.
Continue reading "Coming Soon! Meet Paul: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen -- February 2011" »
And they all have dirty filthy disgusting mouths, too, even Kathie Lee's good close personal friend Hammer (great grandson of Armand Hammer).
Watch them talk to Carrie Keagan (yeah, again with the Carrie Keagan, you gotta problem with that?) after the jump.
Also after the jump I've posted the Myspace live webcast interview with Eisenberg, Garfield and Justin Timberlake done by Olivia Munn, who often these days take time off from her job at Attack of the Show and the person who fills in is ...
... Carrie Keagan. See how it all comes around? See what I did there?
And one more thing, the Justin clip from SNL this week (because ... you know, the whole threes thing).
Clips post jump.
Hey, Carrie (image below right) had to convince you that Emma's breasts felt like cake. How do you know unless some media watchdog checks these things out for you?
That's right, No Good Television is a fact checking organization that hires a hot blonde with big boobs to feel up the starlets of Hollywood to figure out how much those breasts feel like ... cake.
I'm now totally in love with Emma Stone. You know, in a GBF (gay best friend) kinda way.
And I'm in love with Stanley Tucci, but in a different, more prurient way. Always have been, there's just something about Tucci. Penn Badgley? He's okay and young and hot and all but Tucci is ... well he's Stanley Tucci after all.
I would love to post this clip here for you but a can't. Still it's just a click away and here's the link.
Later in the clip from the screengrab above a jar of honey comes out. Carrie, Emma, and honey.
Hey, it's Friday. No one's doing anything at the office anyway, you might as well just click over and live in No Good World for a while.
Easy A, the movie they're all talkin' about, opens today. Go! Watch the trailer by clicking this link.
BTW, Carrie will be on Headline News' Joy Behar Show this coming Wednesday, and I'll remind you of that next week.
And another Carrie surprise, she's hosting a new show for VH1 Classic called Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp from Mark Burnett starting October 16. Read the press release by clicking over the jumperoo.
Continue reading "Easy A Star Emma Stone: "Thank You, Carrie Keagan, For Feeling Me Up!"" »
This is a fine example of news being reported by the cloud, so to speak. Lotsa people with cameras on them means anyone can be a TV news reporter, at least on YouTube if nothing else, and from the comments I've read on the various clips posted their authors all rushed to the web to be first.
I have my own personal 2001 story, a family favorite in fact ...
In 1969 an eight-year-old Joe Bua (moi) put on his Navy pea coat and went with his family to what was at the time the Century Green Acres Theatre in Valley Stream, NY to see the big space epic from Kubrick. Had no idea who Kubrick was, of course, as I was eight years old.
Movie starts, young Joe freaks out. Space. It's ... so big ... vast ... I'm nothing compared to space, and especially in a dark theater with a flawless 70 mm print of the movie.
And the music ... loud, foreboding ... screaming inside ... too much to handle all at once.
So I picked up my coat, my Navy pea coat from the Army/Navy store that I begged my mom for instead of another parka (because I had seen hot Navy guys wearing them in stories of "shore leave" on the teevee) and I held the coat to my face and looked through a buttonhole at the screen so that it wouldn't be so overwhelming.
And that's how I watched most of the rest of the movie.
This guy had a completely different problem. Most everyone seems to agree this looks like a bad acid trip though one commenter at YouTube who claimed to be a row behind said it was something more violent, like meth, and that the guy struck a child in the crowd.
People, we have DVDs now and Netflix on demand and a gazillion cable channels. If you need to experience media while you're frakkin' wasted, stay at home.
Clips after the jump (I added a Hal clip from the movie, too, just for fun).
Clips from orchestra level (dark, shot with an iPhone, decent audio) and balcony level (much better visually).
Continue reading "Video (3 Clips) -- 2001: A Space Odyssey + LSD = Egyptian Theatre Freakout" »
Is the town P-town? If so, I'm so there.
So Jon Hamm is a bottom? Okay, I get it, Affleck's the director, after all. You would think that would make Ben the bottom, controlling at work and wanting to give up control at play.
I can dream, there's no harm in that.
Watch the trailer for this film (which sadly is not about Provincetown or Boystown for that matter) by clicking this link.
Photo courtesy Twitter user @jfuentes.
I used this Lifehacker post as a guide to fixing the lastest FB security hole created when they decided to get all Foursquare on your ass and add a locations function.
There's a clip, too, and it's at this link.
And, just for giggles ... let's post the trailer for The Social Network, the movie that Mark Suckerberg doesn't want you to see (at least I assume he doesn't). It's viewable by clicking this link.
My only question about this movie ... will the Justin Timberlake (pictured above with star Jesse Eisenberg) movie curse end with this film? Seriously, the guy's track record in film (IMDb link) is not good.
But he's awfully cute and he can kill an SNL sketch. Then again, so can Rachel Dratch and I don't see her getting a lot of movie roles lately.
Today's film critic is Glenn Howerton who plays "the devastatingly handsome" Dennis Reynolds on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which returns for it's sixth season on FX on September 16.
Compiled from his tweets, check all of them out at this link:
Expendables. Amazing body mass index. So much steroid use. So hard to watch those men try and walk much less run. Nips were hard as glass none the less. Stallone appears to be wearing a mask of his own face over his face.
And that was the Your Fave TV Stars Review Movies on Twitter post for today. There will be one tomorrow if I find one. Or maybe the next day. Or, send me tweets from your fave TV stars when they review movies on Twitter.
And to thank Glenn for playing our game (though he didn't even know he was), we have a few It's Always Sunny ... season six behind the scenes clips for you, and they're in a Hulu widget after the jumperoo.
I have to think this year the show is going to explode, especially after it's Summer vacay on Comedy Central. Note to producers ... this is a great way to expose your show to new fans, and we love getting four episodes in a row. It gives us a great chance to catch up and to get to know the characters.
An homage to Barbra in the upcoming Harper's Bazaar, the Fall fashion issue.
See all the pics and their inspiration, at this link. Check out the video from the magazine's site by clicking this link.
From the interview accompanying the photo feature:
Jennifer first met Streisand, 68, at a New Year's party a few years ago. "I've loved her since I was a kid, and all of a sudden there she is, and she's just like someone you've always known," Jennifer says. "You know when you meet people you idolize and then you walk away from the conversation thinking, 'Well, that was a disappointment; they were kinder and more fabulous in my mind'? Well, she was wonderful, and you could talk to her about anything." She starts to laugh. "So, I happened to be talking to her and Jim [Streisand's husband, James Brolin] when it struck midnight. They said, 'Excuse us,' kissed each other, and then, very politely, kissed me."
Amazingly, she's done something where she's not naked or close to it, she's not on a talk show with a skirt so short you're sure she wants you to inspect her vagina and she's promoting a movie that just might not be so horrible (see the trailer for The Switch, starring Jen and Jason Bateman, Jeff Goldblum, Juliette Lewis and Patrick Wilson at this link).
Oh, and word is she may or may not (check this E! Online Kristin Dos Santos piece) be showing up on friend Courteney Cox's ABC comedy Cougar Town this season. Nothing concrete yet, but they're talking.
Congrats, Jen and Jen's team, on finding a way to promote the film without having to talk about Brad but without teasing the men of America into thinking they can see your snatch.
I'm tough on you because I love you, girl.
Actually, what he says to Carrie Keagan is, "Please, just get that dick outta your butt." I think he just wants to make sure it's not in there while you're driving to the theater to see The Other Guys, which opens Friday.
Watch Will and Mark and Eva Mendes (sex tape star) and Carrie by clicking here. More Carrie and Shark Firestone at No Good Television (NGTV.com) at this link.
Seriously, do not drive while engaging in anal sex. In fact, anal in a car probably isn't a good idea at all. Preferred: Rooms that are near hot running water, condoms, appropriate lubrication, towels, and maybe an instructional video for the newbies.
No link to the aforementioned instructional video. You're on your own there.
I don't usually just post a movie trailer because I saw it on TV. But I'm posting this movie trailer because I saw it on TV.
Great cast, really really great cast, actually. Emma Stone becomes a big big star the weekend this releases (Sept. 17). And this is a really well-produced trailer, too, doesn't make you feel like it's shooting the movie's comedy load in 2:30.
It's at this link. Yeah, it's pop up right here, just click.
Oh, and it's Amanda Bynes' comeback film. You remember, how she retired on Twitter and then unretired? Hey, like I said, she gets one, but just one.
Watch it by clicking this. No, not this, this is the GQ.com profile of Emma with very hot AND FUNNY pics.
This (LINK) is what you wanna click.
Not this link, that's the link to watch the trailer for Easy A, Emma's new film co-starring the now retired Amanda Bynes and Lisa Kudrow.
And not this link, either, which will open a clip of Emma with my pal Carrie Keagan from No Good Television.
Just so we have that straight. Okay, then.
... this guy.
No, I didn't know him, either. His name is Andrew Garfield and you can tell he's British from the big ol' crop of hair up there on top of his dome, just like Matt Smith!
And, because he's British he'll cost almost nothing and won't make noise on the set when they suspend him from some rig with dental floss, just like Matt Smith!
Speaking of Doctor Who, of course he did a couple of eps of the show, he played Frank in the two-part Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks in series three.
He's also in the upcoming Sony Pictures Facebook movie.
More details on the casting from TheWrap.com when you click here.
I still would have preferred Donald Glover.
OMG! It's the lead story at the Hollywood Reporter's TV homepage right now! The biggest deal going on in the television industry today? Only in my dreams have I thought about what could've been last year when both Deb and Tiff starred in their own Syfy Channel movies.
Now news today that it's gonna happen, and I have to believe it's because the people just had to have it. They demanded, Syfy is delivering.
The network promises an epic battle between the former teen pop stars, who will co-star in "Mega Python vs. Gatoroid."
Gibson will play a fanatical animal-rights activist who frees illegally imported exotic snakes from pet stores, sending them into the Everglades, where they grow to mega sizes. Tiffany will play an overzealous park ranger who uses dangerous methods to save endangered alligators.In the script, the pair brawl at a party, then take matters outside into the swamp.
Oh great glorioski Dynasty Alexis and Krystal my God I can't believe it.
More as we get closer. Clips and key art as soon as they become available.
Thank you, Syfy. I always say if you're gonna do it go all the way. I admire your juevos.
See clips from each of their previous Syfy movies by clicking here (Gibson) or here (Tiffany).
One question, though ... shouldn't Gatoroid be a combination of Gatorade and steroids?
And a comment, I hope those who detest the phrase "whole 'nother level" have stopped by, feel free to complain in the comments.
Yeah, Jess, but if it really was I'd be standing in line right now to see what happens when Bradley Cooper and Liam Neeson get to the activity in question.
So, no cock-knocking, I don't think, but watch Jess, Liam, Brad, Sharlto Copley & Quinton "Rampage" Jackson tell NGTV's Carrie Keagan about their new one, opening today at theatres everywhere.
And, Carrie's VH1 Classic series One Hit Wonders, season two, is still running on cable, so check that out.
It is amazingly simple to see and incredibly obvious that the man who should direct a Doctor Who movie written by Russell T. Davies and starring Doctor 10 David Tennant and Billie Piper as Rose has been, is and will always be Guillermo Del Toro.
(Sorry Euros Lyn, I know you'd like to get the call.)
Spend ten minutes watching clips form Pan's Labyrinth or either of the Hellboy movies and it's obvious he would have the feel for the script and the performances and for the elaborate effects work that would need to be done to bring the show to your local cinemas.
And now, Del Toro has some room on his schedule as he's pulled out of the two-film Hobbit series being produced by Peter Jackson in New Zealand.
So, Jane Tranter (pictured here above right with DT at the BAFTA TV Awards in 2009) I encourage you today or tomorrow (okay, take a day off and eat something fried with cheese, it's a bank holiday ... in fact I'll join you!) and maybe just let the word get out to some close industry friends that a team could be put together fairly quickly for this enterprise and if you work fast we might have something for a 2013 production date.
And just to get you thinking this way, Jane, watch the Hellboy 2 trailer again, click this and watch. He's really perfect for the job and getting him, especially now, would cement the fanboy furvor for the project.
Plus DT and Billie won't be available for this forever, you know. They'll need to get on with it, eventually.
So I've been reading online about the possibility of Joss Whedon getting this new gig rewriting the script and directing a film version of The Avengers ... and getting really excited.
Because Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman really didn't cut it for me. Sorry, Ralph, you can have Liam release the Kraken on me now.
Anyhow, been very excited about Joss getting a shot at this and whistling a happy tune to myself as I spot the various tweets and headlines ... and then, this (The Wrap):
"The Avengers" is the movie Marvel has been building toward for years, billing it as the ultimate superhero movie. It will unite a virtual all-star team of superheroes such as Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), Captain America (Chris Evans), The Incredible Hulk (Edward Norton?), Thor (Chris Hemsworth) and SHIELD leader Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson).
What? Oh frack, my lack of history with comic books gets me again. Damn Marvel Universe!
Well, since I brought it up why not a new TV version of the show? There are plenty of networks that could do it both here and in the UK and I'm for one ready for some smart tv with a side of sexy. I mean, Castle's only on once a week.
How about cable? What about FX or USA or TNT? Who would you cast?
Play with me in the comments. Clip from British TV series by clicking here from the fourth season premiere episode.
So I'm watching Rhoda on American Life TV this week (because they're running the episodes that run up to Joe and Rhoda divorcing and it's better than the Bergman film Scenes From a Marriage, Liv Ullman be damned) and I see this campy li'l promo for an old William Shatner film (really campy considering the owners of the new ALTV include Robert Schuller's son ... hey, maybe that's exactly the reason it's so campy).
Shatner plays twin brothers born to mixed parents. He's a cowboy. He's an Indian. He's spewing some of the worst dialogue ever to see the light of day ... sometimes right at himself.
I did a little homework and indeed White Comanche is one of the most sucktastically reviewed films of all time. Click here for details from the official Razzie Awards site, and they know sucktastic!
From that page:
Some reviews suggest that this film was shot in about one week – And it certainly seems a credible accusation, given the film’s quality. Even on DVD, the print looks like it was tapped-danced on by the entire U.S. Olympic golf team. Instead of Leo the Lion roaring (or any studio logo) we open with a stock shot of a snowy mountain, with a stock sound effect of a wolf howl under it. Then the music comes up – If Sheriff Dillon from GUNSMOKE had ever played Vegas, this is what his pit band would’ve sounded like. Finally, a title appears: “Producers’ International Corporation presents…” With this inauspicious a start, we know already what we’re in for. Made in Spain on a budget apparently under 2,317 pesos, WHITE COMANCHE is supposed to be that country’s answer to the so-called Spaghetti Westerns that were all the rage at the time. Think of it as the world’s first Sangria Western.
Check out a clip by clicking here and set your DVR for some truly amazing cinema on Saturday at 7:30 pacific on ALTV, amazing being that double-edged sword in this case.
Well it's this one noted above. Push was a 2009 release with Evans (Mmmmm ...) Dakota Fanning and Djimon Honsou (Mmmm, again), and here's details from IMDB:
A group of young American ex-pats with telekinetic and clairvoyant abilities are hiding from a clandestine U.S. government agency. They must utilize their different talents and band together for a final job enabling them to escape the agency forever.
Sounds familiar? Well, Summit Releasing (the Twilight people, they have a bunch of money apparently and no place to put it) is calling it the next Heroes.
Have they looked at the ratings for Heroes lately? They might not want to make that comparison.
Summit's not going the traditional route with this one, they plan to cast and shoot a pilot before even approaching a US TV network, hoping that the overseas sales will allow them to make the price for the US more, uh, appealing.
And although the prospects for the show, if foretold by the film, are global in nature it's not always a guarantee that foreign sales will be there. Just because the Eiffel Tower is in your project doesn't mean that the French will watch.
For some reason, the movie Push is being adapted for television. As far as I know, the movie wasn't that great, as I haven't heard anyone say one thing positive about it. Plus, the TV adaptation is being called the next Heroes, so I guess that's a good indication of what to expect. Ahh, whatever. I'll watch it anyway. God I hate myself.
Whatev, I don't hate myself that much. I find it hard to believe that a broadcast net will bite on this. Possibly a US cable network, but certainly not pay cable.
I would watch if they could cast Evans and promise shirtless scenes each week. Other than that I think for the time being I'm really over regular people who discover their irregular abilities.
Sure I heard about the greenlight for this project. But I just didn't really think it would ever get produced. I thought maybe someone was pulling my leg, yanking my chain, tossing my salad ...
No, not tossing my salad. Sorry. That's ... very different.
I love Will Forte (who also wrote the script with John Solomon) but this isn't my favorite character of his. Still the mullet actually works for him. Then again, so does the really short hair style he's sporting for real these days.
Yes, I have a weakness for a happenin' mullet. Must be my college years in Oswego and all those Canuck hockey players there on scholarship sportin' the biz in front party in the back style.
Watch the clip by clicking here. The movie's scheduled to open April 23.
Check out this pic above. Obviously not an official still from the film, huh?
That's Billie Piper second from left in the really really short shorts. And in the center is a very young Orlando Bloom.
(Note: Billie had an uncredited role in the film version of Evita, so yes, she's already worked with Maddona.)
Jimmy Connelly, an English bachelor milkman, 'accidentally' knocks down his boxing club's champion as stand-in sparring partner. The champ was scheduled for a title fight against the reigning, American world champion. So the sleazy manager decides to substitute him with Jimmy, who is now groomed for stardom. Naive Jimmy does everything the crook says, only to be blamed when it all explodes in their faces big time. Will he keep taking it or stand his ground before his whole career and private life are ruined?
Billie plays a character named Angel. I have no info past that.
Watch it by clicking here. And see Billie again on the 25th when the new series of Secret Diary of a Call Girl returns to Showtime at 10 pm eastern.
Watch a clip from the new series by clicking here.
Sigourney Weaver looks amazing! Absolutely stunning. She is 60 years old this year and she looks no more than 40. And she doesn't look all stretched and filled and frozen by chemicals and doctors.
(That's not to say she hasn't had a little somethin' somethin', but you can't really tell. At all.)
Watch her talk about her new movie, James Cameron's Avatar, at this link.
Learn more about the process Cameron and his staff developed to shoot the film at this link from MakingOf.com after the jump as the clip does not comply with the Apture.com plug-in, they should really fix that at MakingOf.com, someone call Natalie Portman (the site is her baby) and let her know.
Because I know that you all have Natalie's number in your iPhones, right?
Right?
Continue reading "Video -- Avatar Star The Fabulous Sigourney Weaver on The Daily Show" »
Sorry, hoards of women (and some men) who love Alex O'Loughlin, this one didn't work out for him, either.
Moonlight should have hit, I think it was just slightly before its time and suffered because of the network standards and practices departments. Sophia Myles (former David Tennant girlfriend, his co-star in Doctor Who episode The Girl in the Fireplace) was sublime as well.
This show just didn't seem to connect with the audience. And, Sunday is a tough TV night-- it was originally scheduled against Desperate Housewives, which sucks up the female demo to begin with, and all the other folk out there are either watching Sunday Night Football in the east on NBC or the Fox animated shows (the latter is always my first choice).
For Alex fans, you can next see him in the Jennifer Lopez movie The Back-Up Plan in March. And to tide you over until then I've posted a still from that film of Alex apparently driving a tractor shirtless.
I always drive my tractor shirtless, don't you?
Watch an early sneak peek with lots of Alex in it after the jump.
Continue reading "Video -- Updating from Two Posts Ago ... Three Rivers Up The River" »
... it should be from No Good Television.
Now, I don't endorse the whole dealio ... celibate vampires? Give me a fuckin' break with that. Every vampire I've met has been very horny (not including Clive Owen, who is a vampire as well as the guy who's stalking me on Facebook, however he's just evil and out to get me for apparently no reason).
However, if you're looking for Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson to drop a few F-bombs, host Carrie Keagan to ask all those eerewolf boys to take off their pants and more generalized debauchery from this gang, click THIS LINK RIGHT HERE and be transported to the NGTV.com site and make sure you're over 18 and click away (because you would never lie about anything on the Internet, would you?) and enjoy.
(They are in the process of a major site redesign, so no embed codes right now, which gives you every reason to click over there and watch ... everything! Including Carrie interviewing the casts of Precious, Pirate Radio, Gentlemen Broncos and ... Dolph Lundgren. Dolph Lundgren? Yes, Dolph Lundgren.)
I prefer my vampires having sex, same-sex sex, opposite-sex sex (t0 paraphrase a certain Miss California with eight separate sex tapes out there) ... rough sex with tough customers ... but this no sex thing just leaves me dry.
Very dry.
And btw, this is only part one of a multi-part extravaganza from the No Good gang with these kids. Wish they would have gotten Michael Sheen to play but whatev, maybe he shows up in the next one ... and hopefully with a potty-mouthed Dakota Fanning (because it's time, it's just time for her to break out of this kid thing ... we all know she's really a 30-year-old who just looks young for her age).
I couldn't possibly say more about whole Twilighty thing.
Someone owes me cocktails, Kourosh.
Why no pithy Craig Ferguson headline from Joe today? Because there was just so much going on last night on Craig's show that the headline would have started here and ran through eight other blogs until it ended at the great blog Craig Ferguson's Guest List, the proprietor of which is the wonderful YouTube user Malinky2Stoatir, who clips out the show every day so that I can bring you these clips.
First there was Craig riffing on this not widely known news story about his boss Dave Letterman. You may have heard about it, maybe not, something having to do with crime and money and sex and schadenfreude you know how we Americans hate any combination of the four ... not!
Then, Michael Sheen, who stars in the new movie The Damned United, comes out on stage wearing the tightest pants that go with a suit I have ever seen in my life. Must be an Ozwald Boateng suit, I thought, or Sheen is fronting some UK punk band between movie gigs.
Tight pants? Who do you think you are, Sheen, the oldest Jonas Brother, Kevin?
(Sorry there's not a better image here, but watch the clip at this link and you'll see Sheen has to, ahem, adjust, just to sit down. Turns out Michael Sheen was a soccer player at one time and almost played for Arsenal. And he sports the tight pants much better than Kevin Jonas, anyway.)
Then, Viola Davis, who plays the Mayor of Philadelphia in the new film Law Abiding Citizen, comes out in this tight, tight, tight dress that she just owns (not owns as in paid money for, although she might or it might have been borrowed from the designer) but that she wears like nobody's business. I love Viola Davis, have for years, and I've never seen her look so hot.
So hot! Viola, you are smokin'.
Where's the big film that makes Viola Davis a star, anyway? Meryl Streep wants it to happen, I want it to happen ... isn't that enough? Hey, movie execs, get to it!
Watch Viola talk to Craig at this link, if only for her throaty, sexy laugh, which I guess came with the dress.
However, I had to go with the cold opening with Craig's Letterman comments for the clip after the jump because ... well, because I know it's what I know you wanna see.
Maybe Craig will still have a show on CBS tonight, and if he does his guests will be Julia Louis-Dreyfus and The Avett Brothers.
And maybe Craig will try not to be so damned sexy. Because it can be dangerous in his job as late night host.
Continue reading "Give Us This Day Our Daily Craig -- No Pithy Ferguson Headline. Why? Read On" »
As you all know by now, I follow the career of Carey Mulligan because she was first for me the lovely, intrepid and curious Sally Sparrow in Steve Moffat's award-winning Doctor Who series three episode titled Blink.
In fact, from that performance only, a guest shot, she won awards, that's how good she was. If you haven't seen Carey as Sally you should really find a friend who has the series three boxset. For a taste, I'll give you a second clip, after the interview with Entertainment Weekly's lovely (well, I think he's lovely) Dave Karger. They're both after the jump.
(It's from the Doctor Who Confidential, includes footage from the episode, some of David Tennant interviewing Moffat about the episode and David interviewing Carey. Not to be missed if you're a real fan of Doctor Who.)
There's very serious Oscar talk around the film and Carey's performance. I find her absolutely incandescent on camera. Just a lovely, thoughtful actor plying her trade and lucky enough to get a hold of some meaty roles.
Upcoming for her? The Mark Romanek film Never Let Me Go co-starring Keira Knightley, Oliver Stone's Wall Street 2 as the daughter of Gordon Gekko and the UK film Brighton Rock in which she stars alongside Helen Mirren and Pete Postlethwaite.
Big career ahead for this lovely young woman. I could not be more pleased for her, or pleased that I found her before many others.
Clips after the jump.
Of course there is a reason to swear, could you imagine having to sit through these junket interviews without NGTV's Carrie and that mouth that she stole from a longshoreman? I can't. I don't do it anymore, I just watch No Good Television.
The movie, of course, is The Invention of Lying, costarring Jennifer Garner, Louis C.K. and Tina Fey.
Then Ricky turns to the camera to talk to Carrie's mom (who is this very lovely sweet woman from Upstate New York and ... well, I can't even repeat what he says to her.
But only because you should hear it from him. Oh, it's all in fun. No need for the Buffalo metro area to come running at Ricky with pitchforks and torches.
This very high concept comedy will be, in my not-so-humble estimation, the film that puts Ricky over the top here in the US, and if you miss it you're a fucking loser, to steal a word from Ms. Hottie HotHot and her naughty mouth.
Clip after the jump, movie opens tomorrow.
(And, btw, I'm on my way right after posting this to NGTV to meet the creators of FlashForward, so nothing new here until the end of the say. I need to get out and have some fun.)
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Well, how about that, huh? John came in a full eight percentage points in the poll, ahead of runner-up Alexander Skarsgard, 36 to 28.
Torchwood fans really came through on this one.
Jon Hamm came in fourth at only 8% below Jensen Ackles from Supernatural at 10%.
Interesting that the top two finishers aren't native Americans, though Barrowman did spend a significant amount of his youth in Aurora, Illinois.
Also spending a significant amount of their childhoods in Aurora? The two people pictured after the jump.
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If you took all the column inches that the Daily Mail in the UK devoted to either speculating or saying outright that a Friends theatrical motion picture was happening, you could probably circle the globe.
This latest news comes after the latest Jennifer Aniston movie bomb, which only gives fuel to the reports. Love Happens dropped 46% in its second week at the box 0ffice and it's been generally thought that it was Jen who was holding up the deal.
Of course if you need a Friends fix all you really have to do is turn on your TV at the right time or click over the TheWB.com (US only). Every Monday, TheWB.com gives you seven new episodes of the show.
One of my favorites, TOW the Cooking Class, is posted this week and you can watch it right here, I've embedded the full episode after the jump.
And ... I'll keep on this and try to find out more, but I'm reasonably sure this is just wishful thinking.
Continue reading "Full Episode Video -- Another Friends Movie Rumor? UK Daily Mail ... Once Again" »
The movie is the very ill-titled Love Happens.
Yeah. So does shit.
Jen, once one of my favorite people to see pop up on my TV, pops up again, in a really really short skirt, again, to promote a movie that will suck.
Who is picking these films that she does? And why do we have to be on vagina watch every time she shows up on a talk show?
Yet enough of you are still interested that if I post the clip you'll come. It's after the jump.
Was Jennifer on Conan on a Tuesday instead of Jay on a Thursday because she's just not much of a draw anymore? Because certainly if it was a great film and a truly big star the interview would have happened on Thursday in primetime.
Halle Berry is Jay's Thursday guest. She doesn't even have a movie coming out anytime soon, though she is rumored to be pregnant.
And Jennifer doesn't even get top billing in a film where the male lead is Aaron Eckhardt, who I enjoy looking at but who certainly isn't a big box office star.
I have many reasons I can list here to explain why I never really was much of a fan of King of the Hill, from the more esoteric (cartoon characters should have three fingers and a thumb not four fingers and a thumb) to the mainstream (might have been a better show had it been a live action single-camera comedy) to the personal (the show is very much about a father and son not having much at all in common and that cuts kind of close to home for me).
The number of fingers thing is real, check this from TVTropes.org:
I guess it has something to do with my next issue, about how the show would have been if not better at least just as good as a live action version. I always figured that Judge got the deal from Fox for the show based of Beavis & Butthead for the Sunday slot and thus it was a comedy. Thing is, it never used the cartoon format to its advantage in my opinion. Would have been the same show with actors and sets. No one ever blows up or engages in other acts of cartoon violence (at least in my cursory viewing) and they don't leave Arlen, TX much.
(I bet if Office Space would have hit before Mike Judge sold King of the Hill to Fox it might have been a different story and we might be talking about a live action show. Of course, reverence for the movie didn't come upon it's release and it took a while to achieve the cult status it has, so who knows.)
I don't need them to, for example, travel to Ireland (Simpsons) or buy a mentally-challenged horse (Family Guy) or even flash back to when Joseph Smith looked into a hat and created a religion (South Park), but if you're gonna go through the trouble of drawing a half hour a week, do something that real people can't why don't you.
Maybe a propane fire? Something? Bueller?
More, including a clip, after the jumperoo.
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Okay, a little backstory.
As you might remember, my gal pal Carrie from No Good Television recently graced the cover of Jesse James' Garage magazine.
See, it's right here.
Well, this was not going without comment from the wife, of course, who is shamelessly mocking Carrie in the clip after the jump.
Oh, and there's a bit of girl-on-girl buttsmacking for those of you into that.
Thomas Haden-Church and Bradley Cooper, her co-stars in All About Steve, seemed to enjoy that moment.
This is the first of two Bullock as a blonde movies (the other being The Blind Side (scheduled for November release). Why blonde? I'm not sure, but would it have anything to do with who showed up on the cover of Jesse James' Garage issue number 18?
Hmmm.
Watch the whole clip (after the jump) if only for the moment where Sandy puts on the producer hat and explains that anyone who loves gay porn will love a movie starring Bradley Cooper.
And to that I say sure, but there's certainly nothing wrong with Thomas Haden-Church either. And I've been saying that since Wings.
Continue reading "NGTV Video -- Sandra Bullock Showcases Her Heinie for Carrie Keagan" »
Oh, tell me you can resist this.
Okay, maybe you have to be a gay sci fi geek that grew up on Long Island around the time of the Debbie Gibson pop music juggernaut, and maybe that's a very very specific group of people.
Who this De-bo-rah is that they talk about it in promo (after the jump) for Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus is beyond me, though.
I would really like to try the drugs that the producers of these movies for Syfy do when they're pitching these projects.
Bonus clip of Debbie Gibson from Denver Gay Pride 2009, they're both past the jump waiting for you.
The song is Only in My Dreams, and I think she's trying to rap at one point, you gotta see this.
And, I just found a longer trailer for it at an MTV-related site that I'll post, also, because ... you just have to watch it. This kind of web video gold is rare, rare I tell you!
I will continue to sit here and wonder if Debbie remembers running into me at the Golden Reef Diner in Rockville Centre while you enjoy yourself.
Lorenzo Lamas costars. He's looked better, huh?
Continue reading "Eight Legs, 3000 Teeth, Debbie Gibson, Syfy, Saturday, 9 pm" »
Yeah, I mean bush.
And I don't mean George W.
I would be remiss if I didn't remind you that the last time Carrie Keagan talked with Liev Schreiber for No Good Television it was in support of a little movie called X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
And in this film he wears a dress. How John Lithgow/The World According to Garp of him!
And that's just one reason to love Liev Schreiber.
Carrie talks to star Demetri Martin, Schreiber, Jonathan Groff (Broadway's Spring Awakening), Emile Hirsch but not Ang Lee.
Why not Ang Lee? I think between the two of them, Carrie and Ang Lee could solve every problem the world serves up. They are the perfectly-suited ying and yang of the motion picture industry.
After the jumperoo, homepagers.
So there's this little indie film that Cameron's working on, it's called Avatar, made for no money, no money at all. And the buzz? Hardly a peep from the usual suspects.
Just a little film about people and relationships and the questions of the day, you know.
If you believe that, try the following ...
Two clips after the jump, my pals with Cameron at the Con followed by the recently released full teaser trailer.
The movie opens December 18.
Jane Lynch, and they didn't call me. I have already chastised the appropriate people. Not really, I just reminded them that when someone like Jane Lynch shows up, I wanna be there.
Who doesn't love Jane Lynch? Christopher Guest company player, go-to gal for web comedy from Funny or Die and others, star of the upcoming Glee on Fox, and ... for matters of the clip after the jump one of the co-stars of Post Grad, the film opening today starring Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls) and Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights), who joins Jane, Carrie Keagan (with an "ea") and Shark Firestone, who has to stand behind the bar because you would be distracted by his enormous package if he didn't, as I mentioned just the other day (LINK).
Zach Gilford is apparently not related to the legendary Jack Gilford, as I can't find a mention of it on the web. Though he might just be quiet about it. Damn, then I have no reason to tell my story about meeting Jack Gilford outside the Winter Garden Theatre in NYC before a performance of Gilda Radner: Live from New York.
Unless you beg me to. Maybe later.
Watch Carrie and Shark have a party with the stars of this film in a clip after the jump that is NOT for you kids and shouldn't be watched at work without headphones.
This is part one of two. I'll have part two ASAP. It's Jane Lynch!
Continue reading "Video -- The Remarkable Jane Lynch Visits the No Good Television Studios" »
... but no Brad Pitt.
No Brad Pitt? What? Was Angelina afraid Carrie Keagan would steal her man? Or was Brad too busy teaching a class at the Learning Annex on one-handed joint rolling?
A) Carrie doesn't need to steal anyone's man, she is the goddess of the press junket. Men turn to mush in front of her. Why? Because smart beautiful women rule the world.
B) One-handed rolling is overrated. It's not the wrapping, it's the present inside dontcha know.
Make particular note of Christoph Waltz in this clip after the jump. Then read this (LINK) from the Los Angeles Times. This movie will make his career in the US. Mark my words, I have a great instinct for this stuff.
And not just him but Michael Fassbender (not included in the clip, unfortunately), who you might remember from 300 or from his outstanding performance as Bobby Sands in Hunger.
Carrie trades f-bombs and more with Waltz, director Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth (in an acting role here, taking a break from the torture porn biz) and B.J. Novak from The Office in his first dramatic role.
Well there's certainly room, as anyone who has seen the trailer for the movie for humor in this picture. In fact, considering the subject matter it's almost a required element.
Speaking of humor, guess who shows up in this movie? Well, first of all Samm Levine, who you might remember from Freaks & Geeks and is just hysterically funny.
And ... Mike Myers. Mike Myers? You know, that guy who used to make funny movies in the late 90s and is currently filming a remake of the Danny Kaye classic The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which btw didn't need to be remade. The original and Danny Kaye stand as giants.
Now clip over the jumperoo and watch Carrie work her magic. And in the days ahead look for a very very special Carrie Keagan/NGTV giveaway exclusive to this site.
I said EXCLUSIVE! No one else but me will have this. I know you fanboys are out there because you click over to see Carrie all the time. This one will make your head spin.
Which head? We'll just have to see about that.
As always, you watch anything from NGTV.com at work at your own peril. Is your boss a prude? Because NGTV is no good at the DNA level, it's what they do. That's why I love it.
And, you kids, just move along, and on your way tell your Mom she should be watching you when you're on the internet, just like she does when you go to the mall. Or better than that, actually.
Continue reading "Video -- Basterds and NGTV's Carrie: Tarantino, Novak, Roth, Waltz ... " »
Because that's a show I'd like to see, a Patton Oswalt talk/sketch show with a somewhat current events focus nightly. Just a half hour, maybe on Spike TV (though looking at their schedule I don't know if they could rise to middle-brow) or maybe even an hour on a Friday night on Comedy Central in the Stewart/Colbert slot.
Instead, Oswalt has to go all the way to Caprica (so far away it's a fictional planet in the past or future, based of your interpretation of the BSG finale) to get a show of his own.
And that's quite the commute of time, space and imagination.
THR reported yesterday that Oswalt will play Baxter Sarno, a comedian with a talk show on which the Graystone parents (Eric Stoltz, Paula Malcolmson) eventually appear.
The Oswalt project coming much sooner is a theatrical film called Big Fan, which tells the story of a fervent NY Giants football fan (Patton) that through a series of circumstances gets the crap beat out of him by his favorite player.
No, it's not a comedy. It opens August 28th, I believe in limited release.
He has the chops for this, we know that because of what we have seen from time to time from him in other projects. My mind goes immediately to his guest spot on Dollhouse this past season as a very wealthy computer company founder.
Rolling Stone's Peter Travers saw the movie at this years' Sundance Festival and said:
Comedian Patton Oswalt stars as Paul Aufiero, a thirtyish parking attendant who still lives with mom in Staten Island, and spends his time obsessing over his favorite football team, the New York Giants. Talk radio is Paul's outlet for his sports fanaticism. In Hollywood hands, Paul could have been a target for comic ridicule. But the gifted Wrestler screenwriter Robert Siegel, in a directing debut of potent promise, turns Big Fan into something funny, touching and vital without ever resorting to snark or condescension. And Oswalt delivers a portrait in full of a life in which fandom is one man's personal defense against loneliness. This one's a keeper.
I have the trailer and details on and clips from Patton's Comedy Central special this Sunday, his second for the cable channel, after the jump.
Not suitable for work. And you kids? Part of me wants to tell you to take this to heart, the other part says that I don't wanna recommend a clip with bad words.
But sometimes those bad words just tell the tale so much better than being polite.
It's after the jump. Jennifer's Body opens today. Check your movie listings.
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Don't do this.
If anyone at this point is interested in a BSG theatrical film it's fans of the Syfy series and they aren't interested in yet another revision of the original tale, and if they even were it wouldn't be this soon while there are still stories being told out of the Ron Moore series including the telefilm The Plan and the upcoming Caprica series.
Certainly I'm not interested in anything with a Glen Larson-esque LDS parable snuck into it. Moore already went beyond questions of organized religion and on to questions of faith and spirituality that the whole Joseph Smith looked in a hat and read the magic stones thing just doesn't sync up with.
Not that I know that's an idea being suggested, but I do know that any BSG theatrical motion picture has to get some sort of approval from Larson.
It's why Ron Moore never got to do a theatrical film based on the show.
Don't do this.
Two days, three movies, and all good experiences. Even at the movies, where I avoided your screaming, yelling, seat kicking kids and saw Julie & Julia.
First, our TV pal Craig Ferguson, whose movie I'll Be There (he writes, directs and stars) is running on Starz and Encore this month (check your listings), which I imagine was a lovely li'l film about a sobered up Scottish rock star (Craig) and the daughter he didn't know he had (Charlotte Church) before it was slashed to ribbons and reconstructed.
I say that because there's this huge montage scene in the middle of the film that carries a lot of the weight of plot exposition. It went on so long and revealed so much that I just imagined Warner Bros. and Morgan Creek pulling the masters out of Craig's hands and recutting it without him.
Still, there were some lovely moments in it and I had a good time. It's not The Big Tease or Saving Grace, but it's a pleasant family-oriented film.
Logo is currently airing the Michael Urie-starring film (he of Ugly Betty) called WTC View about a guy who's placed an ad in the Village Voice on September 10, 2001 looking for someone to fill a room in an apartment in SoHo that has a view of the World Trade Center.
I'm not much for 9/11 films but at least in this one you don't have to see the towers fall again, which is a relief. And though there were some formatting elements of the film that I thought were clumsy and there's a really wooden performance from the woman who plays Urie's characters friend, there was a lot to like.
Most of all Urie, who I've not seen do anything but the queen he plays on Ugly Betty. Of course he's playing an actual human being here so there's more with which to work. And Nick Potenzieri was particularly good as a survivor from tower one who comes one night (into early morning) to view the room for rent.
Finally, on Sunday I had to get out of the house for too many reasons and I saw Meryl Streep's new movie Julie & Julia and it was absolutely enchanting. Highly recommended. And, despite today's box office reports I was not the youngest person in the theatre though I certainly was on the young end of the demo.
Which felt nice for a change.
Today I read online that sales of Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Ms. Child's cookbook, is beating sales of Mr. Powell's (Julie's) book based on her blog.
When you see the movie you'll realize this has nothing to do with the quality of either book, it has to do with the way the book sells Julia Child's book. It turns it from this thing you've seen on Mom's shelf into this living breathing character. It makes perfect sense to me that the cookbook is winning any trumped up competition between the two books.
... wait 'til next week.
And ... wait until kids tell their friends that they went to see GI Joe and there was no character named GI Joe.
Seriously. Check the IMDB page if you think I'm kidding.
How the fuck do you make a movie out of the GI Joe mythology and not have a character named GI Joe? How does that happen? It's link making Rainbow Brite without Joel McHale, oops, I mean without a multi-colored little girl and a unicorn?
THR reports this morning that the movie is on track for a $56.2 billion opening, which is fine, but I can't wait to find out how it tracks during the week and next weekend now that the critics have gotten a chance to see it.
And now that your kids will shake their heads as they try to explain to their friends that they saw a GI Joe movie without one character being named GI Joe.
Paramount and Hasbro made the decision not to screen it for them. Kind of as if it were a Nicolas Cage movie. You haven't noticed? Most of Cage's movies these days don't get press screenings, either, and they open better than they should (according to conventional wisdom) and eventually make money.
Gawker has a collection of reviews at this link.
Peter Travers at Rolling Stone has a particularly good take on all this at this link.
And as far as my writing this post just so I can post another Channing Tatum photo?
You decide.
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