Author: Will Harris (Page 233 of 261)

Will is a member of the Television Critics Association and has written for Decider.com, the Onion A.V. Club, The Dissolve, Indiewire, Rhino.com, TV Week Magazine, The Virginian-Pilot, Popdose.com, and EW.com along with writing for Bullz-Eye.com and Premium Hollywood.

Jack Black back on the attack

Even as his fans get all giddy about the impending release of “Nacho Libre” and, in a few months, the Tenacious D movie, Jack Black is preparing for his next picture.

Written by Michael Gondry (“The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), the film – according to VH-1 – “will follow a junkyard worker (Black) who is convinced that a local power plant is gaining influence over his brain. When he attempts to sabotage the plant, the resulting magnetic field erases all the tapes in the video store where his best friend works. Afraid that the mishap will cost the friend his job, the two become determined to maintain the membership of a little old lady who is the store’s only loyal customer. Enlisting the help of anyone they can find, the group sets out to re-enact every movie that she decides to rent — including ‘Robocop,’ ‘The Lion King’ and ‘Back to the Future’ — filming each one themselves and passing it off to her as the original version.”

Please, Movie Gods, let this be even half as funny as it sounds…

In a world where “RV” has made $50 million dollars, it had to happen.

Coming soon to theaters: “Jackass 2.”

All you need to know about it is summed up nicely in this quote from director Jeff Tremaine:

MTV: Some of the best moments in the first “Jackass” movie came when the stunts made the camera crew vomit. Did anything in “Number 2” make you lose it?
Tremaine: There are a few things that repulsed me, but it takes a lot. I’ve been working with these guys forever, so it really takes something extraordinary for me to get queasy. But yes, it has been done on this movie.
MTV: You vomited?
Tremaine: I didn’t actually vomit, no, but I came close. I had to gag a little bit.
MTV: What got to you?
Tremaine: There is a sequence with some horse semen. That was a little tough to observe.

Full season DVDs on the fast track

Now that TV shows are coming out on DVD left and right, it’s become common practice for the networks to release full-season sets immediately before the new season premieres, building excitement for the new by reminding how good the old was. According to TVShowsonDVD – which, as ever, is the source for all news on your favorite series making the trip to disc – a few shows that hadn’t yet made their DVD debut are making up for lost time before the fall.

Both “Medium” and “Numb3rs,” each just finishing up their sophomore seasons, are on the verge of having their first seasons appear on DVD – the former on June 13, the latter on May 30 – but to make sure everyone can play catch-up and be really psyched before their respective season premieres, each will have their second seasons out before then, too. There aren’t specific dates penciled in yet, but the talk has begun, so anticipate seeing them in September or, at the latest, early October.

On the subject of disaster movies…

…NBC has a made-for-TV epic coming up this Sunday and Tuesday – that’s right, it’s such an epic that it’s been split into a two-night affair – called “10.5: Apocalypse.”

It’s a sequel to the 2004 TV flick, “10.5,” and the effects are about as impressive as anything you’ve seen in a TV movie, but for God’s sake, don’t watch it without first taking a dose of dramamine. Director John Lafia has a technique that involves performing a sudden, shaky zoom-in on anyone who says a single word…kind of a poor man’s Sam Raimi. Maybe it’s supposed to give the proceedings a documentary-like feel, since the entire film was done in HD and, apparently, with handheld camera, but, personally, I burst into laughter, so often was it happening during an ostensibly tense scene. My wife finally asked if we could turn it off until such time as she was out of the room, because it was making her nauseous. I can’t say as I blame her. If you can get past that, though, it’s a fun – if utterly cliche-packed – ride, with Beau Bridges as the President of the United States, the ever-smoldering Kim Delaney as a sexy seismologist, Frank Langella as her estranged father, plus performances by Dean Cain, Gabrielle Beauvais-Nilon, Oliver Hudson, Carly Pope, and, oddly enough, Melissa Sue Anderson from “Little House on the Prairie.”

Don’t worry if you accidentally forget to watch the second half (because lord knows everyone’s done that at least once with a miniseries), because you can just about guarantee it’ll be out on DVD before Christmas…if not Labor Day.

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