January 9, 2008 – 3:00 pm
AMC’s Future of Classic blog asks three celebrity impersonators “to name the best films starring the person they impersonate.” This raises three questions:
1) Under what circumstances might one need to hire an Angelina Jolie impersonator? I’m sure there are scenarios in which guys need to get rid of their deathly boring former sitcom star wives [...]
November 13, 2007 – 6:07 am
Plus: Harvey Weinstein buys the Norweigan KILL BILL, and Diablo Cody edges one step closer to total world takeover.
November 6, 2007 – 9:46 am
Anne Thompson’s respecting the Beowulf review embargo for the time being, but she can’t resist poking a bit at the flick’s major bait: gold-painted naked Angelina Jolie:
…in one scene when Angelina Jolie rises up out of her cave pool to seduce the mighty Beowulf, who has just killed her only son, Grendel, she walks on [...]
Skimming dispatches from the fanboy World Series so you don’t have to.
Yes, that’s Ray Winstone. No, we don’t know how he got those abs, either.
Angelina Jolie doesn’t stand a chance against Transformers, so Paramount’s getting tricky to save their investment.
A veteran goes down in the line of duty.
In the first installment of a recurring feature, Spout takes a look at the various ways different blogs and sites spin the weekend box office numbers.
New in theaters, Rolf de Heer’s Ten Canoes and Michael Winterbottom’s A Mighty Heart, Angelina Jolie’s passion project. Both deal with marginalized people and raise the question, “Can westerners make a movie to help us understand non-western people?”
Dances with Wolves and Apocalypto come under a bit of scrutiny as well.
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