Author: Bob Westal (Page 91 of 265)

Writer guy Bob Westal was literally born in Hollywood and has commented on the worlds of movies, popular culture, politics, and food ever since. His interest in cocktails is more recent, but he made up for lost time with hundreds of “Drink of the Week” blog posts for Bullz-Eye. In addition to writing and editing, Bob also talks a lot.

“Inception” clips

July 8, 2010 / Bob Westal

Seeing as “Inception” seems nearly certain to be the movie of this increasingly interesting summer — if not in terms of sheer ticket sales, then at least in terms of film-fan awareness and discussion — I’m sure you’ll want to see this if you haven’t already. They are slightly quiet and hard to hear on my ‘puter, even with the volume up all the way, but intriguing nonetheless. Enjoy.

There’s a bit of “Crocodile Dundee” there — “That’s not a knife….”

Pretty cool, but I was half hoping Leonard DiCaprio would say to Ellen Page “I’m just fucking with ya,” and start laughing hysterically.

You can see more of these at Rope of Silicon.

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Trailer time: “Operation Endgame”

July 7, 2010 / Bob Westal

Like I said, it’s been a slow day for movie news, give or take Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio perhaps someday maybe if they really feel like it getting together a movie which sounds like it might be okay. Indeed, what appears to be today’s most circulated trailer is for a straight to video film with what everyone agrees is a really terrible title.

Still, it’s not just any straight to video movie with a wonderfully weird cast that includes Rob Corddry, Ellen Barkin, Zach Galifianakis, Emilie de Ravin, Maggie Q, Beth Grant, Bob Oedenkirk, Michael Hitchcock, Ving Rhames, and Jeffrey Tambor. It’s also not just any straight to video movie that has a trailer that makes me laugh as many times as this spy-action-black comedy-thriller does.

A word of warning for those of you at work or near kiddies, this Red Band is no joke. It contains in, the wise words of Pajiba, “a fuckload of swearing.”

And, for those of you who’d prefer a f*ckload of excised curse words instead, here’s the green band trailer via HuffPo, which feels a bit more violent to me for some reason. It’s also a who lot less funny without the curse words, which may be one of the film’s commercial problems.

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“Being middle-aged and all takes up most of your time, doesn’t it?”

July 7, 2010 / Bob Westal

With Emmy news immanent and various television items kind of sucking up all the oxygen, it’s a pretty slow day for movie news, give or take an item about a movie Denzel Washington is “looking” to be in or some critical meta-gazing on the ever-bashable Armond White.

Nevertheless, today just happens to be 70th birthday of young Ringo Starr. Joke all you want but, his hugely considerable skills as a drummer and all-around musician aside, Ringo was always the best acting Beatle. With his comically melancholy mien, he was something of a natural but apparently just kind of got bored with it. That’s a shame, but we’ll always have Ringo’s performance in the centerpiece of the most influential rock and roll film ever made.

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Pictures of papparazzi

July 6, 2010 / Bob Westal

Considering the media focus right now on the re-incarceration of Lindsay Lohan, it’s a slight coincidence that the Joseph Gordon-Levitt piece I also linked to in my prior post contained a briefdocumentary in which Gordon-Levitt turned the tables on a pair of photographers who had bugged him and a friend. The results, “Pictures of Assholes” turns out to be reasonably interesting look at celebrity today and our interest in the personal lives of people who happen to be good at pretending to be other people.

Since Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” gets alluded to above, this mash-up from the film about the celebrity photographer character from the film, Papparazzo (Walter Santesso), seems apt. Really, celebrity today is really only different by a matter of degree from the celebrity of yesterday.

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It’s a brand new week in the movie rumor mill

July 6, 2010 / Bob Westal

And there may be some actual news mixed in here. Maybe.

* The big story today is that a lot of people have sussed out the the 23rd James Bond movie is, according to the possibly not-so-super reliable UK tabloid “canned.” Obviously, the same fiscal black hole at the once mighty MGM that is screwing things up royally for “The Hobbit” is also at least delaying the latest entry in what has to be the longest-running franchise in movie history.

He may be a bit emotional, but it’s hard to disagree with the passion of Harry Knowles on this, while Kevin Jagernauth provides some necessary background to the story. I agree that it’s a bummer this is happening during the era of Daniel Craig. As far as I’m concerned, Craig is easily the best Bond since Connery.