Police target senior citizen ‘gopher hoons’
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Western Australia police in Mandurah are targeting a different type of hoon driver as part of their campaign to crack down on reckless driving in the city.
Archive for September 12th, 2006
Dixie Chick Calls Bush a ‘Dumb Fuck’
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006EW’s Chris Willman got a sneak peek at the Dixie Chicks’ sure-to-be-controversial documentary ‘’Shut Up and Sing,'’ in which Natalie Maines calls the president a ‘’dumb fuck.'’
Jane Fonda Lavishes Co-Star Lindsay Lohan With Tough Love
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006In an interview with Access Hollywood (video available here), Jane Fonda offered some surprisingly frank thoughts on the exploits of her persistently underhydrated and unaccounted for Georgia Rule…
VanDammit on BORAT, PAN’S LABYRINTH and ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Hey folks, Harry here with VanDammit’s 3 key experiences thus far at Toronto. Being BORAT’s non-screening, PAN’S LABYRINTH and the recently acquired by The Weinstein Company… ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE! Which has been the big acquisition at Toronto thus far. Here ya go…
TIFF IN REVIEW VANDAMMT!
Hi, its VanDammit! I was one of the guys who reviewed Hostel at last years Toronto Film Festival. I was the only honest one who talked about some problems with the first half of the feature but loved the second half. Anyways, Im back at TIFF and will try sending some more reviews to secure some more anonymous 15 minutes of fame.
Classic/Casual Gaming Coming To iPod
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006For those of you that don’t pay attention to all the Mac happenings in the tech world, Apple had a flurry of entertainment-related announcements today. In addition to updated iPods, a new version of iTunes, and a sneak peek at a video set-top box (m…
MeTheHead on BABEL
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Hey folks, Harry here with another review singing the praises of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s BABEL. Which is one of the finest films you’ll have an opportunity to see this year. Here ya go…
Hi AICN peoples! MeTheHead again with a review of Innaritu’s “Babel”, which I caught on sunday before “Pan’s Labyrinth”. A tough movie to write about, just because there’s so much to say and- at the same time- so much going on in the movie that should be experienced for the first time as you watch it- not as you read a review written by some jerk on the internet.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has a real gift for using music in his films as a storytelling device, or a way to make an accute emotional impression on the audience to help carry them along on a character’s inner journey while external events move the story forward (I know: I’m sort of just describing the role of score in movies in general, but I think that there are varying degrees to which directors even care about the music in there movies, and then there’s someone like Inarritu, whom I think might be choosing a lot of music very early in production and with great deliberation). I still have a gut emotional reaction whenever I hear “Lucha De Gigantes”; that one recurring song from Amores Perros by Nacha Pop. There’s an amazing scene in Babel that uses Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” so deftly, so masterfully to evoke that feeling of being with all your best friends and on your favourite intoxicant in the hottest spot when the most dance-able song you could imagine comes on and everyone seems to feel the same as you, only to suddenly remind us- with brilliant sound editing- that the central character in the scene can’t hear a thing. She’s completely deaf.
Publicists Brainstorming Ways To Work Toronto Triple-Slaying Into Their Festival Campaigns
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006When we guessed that Sacha Baron Cohen’s grand entrance to the aborted Borat premiere on a wench-drawn carriage would “probably prove to be the only truly interesting thing that will emerge from the…
Wii rumor wrap-up
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Filed under: Nintendo Wii, Business
With the international launch details for Nintendo’s Wii all but certain to be revealed in the next few days, it will be time for journalists, bloggers, analysts and forum trolls everywhere to say goodbye to one of their favorite pastimes: rumormongering. In tribute to happy guesses gone by, here’s a quick round up of some of the more memorable rumors that have emerged over the past few months, with original sources and dates noted.
Whose information will reign supreme? You’ll know the official word as soon as we do.
Price
America:
Official: $250 or lower - Nintendo senior managing director Yoshihiro Mori (5/25)
$150 - Vibe Magazine (9/10)
$170 - David Gardner, executive VP and COO of EA’s worldwide studios (8/21)
$175 - Text of supposed Reggie speech from Go Nintendo (8/27)
$200 - Merill Lynch analyst Justin Post (5/17)
$229 - “sources suggest” to IGN (8/7)
$229 - “A source close to Nintendo” via NintendoPlayers (9/12)
$249 - EGM (5/8)
$299 - 7-11 flier (8/4)
Japan:
Official: 25,000 yen or lower ($213) - Nintendo senior managing director Yoshihiro Mori (5/25)
19,800 yen ($170) - Financial report from Tokyo-based Nikko Citigroup (8/15)
Europe/Britain:
Official: Less than 250 Euros ($317) - Nintendo’s head of German operations, Bernd Fakesch (8/23)
149 pounds ($278) - Shopto.net via GoNintendo (7/14)
149 pounds ($278)- MCV (9/8)
Australia:
330 AUD ($248) - Sunday Herald Sun (9/10)
Release Date
Official: Q4, 2006 - Nintendo E3 press conference
America:
October - CNN/Money (7/5)
Oct. 2 - GamingTarget, based on release date press release (7/25)
Oct. 2 - Text of supposed Reggie speech from Go Nintendo (8/27)
November - Insider source from Nintendo Sales meeting, on Orange Lounge Radio (9/4)
Nov. 2 - Best Buy game listing
Nov 6. - Sports Illustrated for Kids (7/2)
Nov. 6 - “an industry source speaking to Cubed3″ (5/31)
Nov. 12 - “some have suggested” to IGN (8/7)
Europe/Britain:
October - Shopto.net via GoNintendo (7/14)
Oct. 2 - JeuxFrance (5/31)
Nov. 3 - EA launch date for Need for Speed: Carbon (7/19)
Shortly before Nov. 24 - MCV (9/8)
Australia:
November - Toys “R” Us
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The Fat Guy wraps up Venice… Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE, Verhoeven’s BLACK BOOK, PRIVATE FEARS IN PUBLIC PLACES, BLACK DAHLIA…
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Hey folks, Harry here with The Fat Man and his look at Venice Film Festival 2006 with INLAND EMPIRE, THE FOUNTAIN, BLACK BOOK, BLACK DAHLIA, CHILDREN OF MEN and much more. Ah, to see those films and Venice all at once… The Fat Man has my envy…
Ahoy! A few years ago I submitted some reviews from Cannes, and have done this year’s Venice Film Festival as well. If you use this, call me the Fat Guy. Herein you will find words about: INLAND EMPIRE (note the caps, they’re Mr. Lynch’s orders), Verhoeven’s Zwartbork, Black Dahlia, the Fountain, Resnais’ Private Fears in Public Places, and perhaps a handful of others. Please forgive that these reviews are (mostly) all positive, I only feel about writing about the films that I liked. Avast!
Avi W tells us of THE PLEASURE OF YOUR COMPANY
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Hey folks, Harry here - seems Comedy is the film du jour at Toronto this year. This time it’s director Micael Ian Black with Jason Biggs… that pie fucker fella. Here ya go…
Hi Harry,
I’m a long time reader, first time writer.
At the Toronto International Film Festival last night, I had the opportunity to see the world premiere of the Michael Ian Black directed “The Pleasure of Your Company”, starring Jason Biggs (the pie guy) and Isla Fisher (of Wedding Crashers fame). It was great!
The audience was buzzing from the start, since castmembers and the director were in the house, but after screening the (very snapping looking) digital ‘print’, the audience erupted into genuine applause.
Copernicus on FIDO - a sort of Leave It To Beaver meets Zombies type of thing!
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Hey folks, Harry here with the amazing Copernicus and his coverage from Toronto. Here’s his look at the 50’s Americana invaded by the Zombie Hordes flick. Sounds awesome! Here ya go…
FIDOIf you can imagine zombies running around in the LEAVE IT TO BEAVER universe, you have some idea of what FIDO is going for.
It’s a zombie comedy set in the ’50s. Think SHAUN OF THE DEAD meets PLEASANTVILLE, only more extreme than either film, and starring Carrie-Ann Moss as a note-perfect ’50s housewife, Tim Blake Nelson as a necrophiliac neighbor, and Billy Connoly as the titular zombie. As so often happens, space dust has awakened the dead, and zombie wars ensue. Eventually megacorp Zomcom invents a collar that suppresses the zombie craving for human flesh, turning them into docile servants. But the non-collared newly dead still eat people, and the collars have a tendency to go on the fritz just when the plot needs to move forward, so there’s plenty of opportunity for zombie carnage and mayhem to wreck idyllic ’50s suburbia. In an effort to keep up with the Joneses, the Robinson family gets their first zombie, which son Timmy names Fido. While Timmy’s father can’t stand zombies, the mother and son can’t help but bond with their new undead pet.
USC DT Ellis has knee surgery, will miss several weeks
Tuesday, September 12th, 2006Young and inexperienced to begin with, No. 4
Southern California finds itself without three players projected to
be starters just one game into the season after nose tackle Sedrick Ellis underwent arthroscopic knee surgery.