Celebrity Kink

Last Wednesday, we momentarily paused from the unrelenting gloom of our StrikeWatching activities to sneak in a smile at the goat-despoiling adventures promised by an ad for Kill Buljo, a Norwegian import in which a katana-wielding, Boratesque protagonist embarks on a Kill Bill-inspired quest for revenge upon the fiends who slaughtered his family. Today, we […]

At least one hard-to-please critic at Paramount feels let down by the WGA picketers’ early attempts at creating some megaphone-enhanced excitement within the non-striking population at the Melrose lot: “The chanting has begun. It’s already getting old. I love a good strike as much as the next person but you would think writers could come […]

Should we be surprised that the largest visual Beowulf marketing placement in Tinseltown is a customized gift-wrap of the Public Storage facility squatting at the corner of Santa Monica and Highland? Nay! The well-researched placement is simply Paramount’s attempt to sequester a share of the eyeballs normally reserved for Apple’s longstanding “We are fucking […]

The Smoking Gun, your one-stop celebrity mugshot superstore, has come through once again, being first up with Shia LaBeouf’s post-Walgreens incident booking photo. Our first reaction was one of concern–did the abandonment of his signature Guido hairstyle suggest he’d ceased to care about even the most basic grooming rituals? Upon further reflection, however, we concluded […]

· Hollywood Out of Ideas, Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Reheated Edition: Sylvester Stallone is in talks to direct and star in an MGM remake of Charles Bronson’s 1974 vigilante-justice classic, Death Wish. Stallone’s reimagined version, however, will focus on an aging action star who seeks bloody retribution against studio executives who’ve collectively decided […]