Hey, Game of Thrones/Community/True Blood/Firefly fans: how’d you like to see a major motion picture starring Peter Dinklage, Danny Pudi, Ryan Kwanten, and Summer Glau? So would we! Would you be surprised to learn that such a motion picture not only exists, but has been sitting on a shelf for two years? So would we! Such is the strange tale of The Knights of Badassdom, director Joe Lynch’s horror comedy that’s been the subject of much discussion and confusion this week. Badassdom, which was previewed at the San Diego Comic-Con clear back in 2011, is hardly the first film that sounded like a good bet, only to sputter in post-production and after due to unforeseen difficulties in financing, distribution, or rights. After the jump, we’ll take a look at ten movies that you’d think you would have heard of, and be able to see, based on the personnel involved — but you can’t, for all sorts of strange reasons. … Read More
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25 Famous Actors Ridiculing Their Profession
If you needed one more reason to love Jennifer Lawrence (and frankly, between her candid interviews and terrific performances in Winter’s Bone, The Hunger Games, and Silver Linings Playbook, we’ve been sold for a while), get a load of this quote from her new Vanity Fair interview: “Not to sound rude, but [acting] is stupid… Everybody’s like, ‘How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ‘Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid.’” That’s the kind of sound byte that helps cultivate the always sensible “down to earth” image, but there’s more to it than that; Lawrence’s comments fall within the grand tradition of no-nonsense actors not only refusing to romanticize what they do, but often coming right out and disparaging it. After the jump, we’ve assembled quotes from 25 of our favorite actors who, like Lawrence, refused to buy into their own hype. … Read More
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Today at Flavorpill, we learned a few things we didn’t know about holiday songs. We found out why English writer Alan Moore turned his back on Hollywood. We learned that something beautiful happens when you throw boiling water over a balcony in Russia. We read Popular Mechanics’ 110 predictions for the next 110 years. We watched Big Boi read How the Grinch Stole Christmas. … Read More
Meryl Streep Demands You Take Action on Reproductive Rights
There are celebrity political endorsements and then there are mega-celebrity political endorsements. File the video below, in support of the Center for Reproductive Rights, in the latter category. It features a cast including Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, Audra McDonald, Billy Crudup, Lisa Kudrow, and Olympia Dukakis poking fun at conservative lawmakers’ depressingly ignorant statements about women’s health and urging us to sign the center’s Bill of Reproductive Rights. And to really drive the point home, they call in one A-list actress no one would dare argue with: Meryl Streep. Your move, radical right. … Read More
Video Essay: “And Introducing… Famous Faces in Their Film Debuts”
This week’s must-see DVD for film fans is Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel, Alex Stapleton’s wickedly enjoyable documentary profile of Roger Corman, the B-movie master whose exploitation movies launched half the moviemakers and movie stars of the ’70s. One of the film’s highlights is Jack Nicholson’s remembrances of his first movie roles, including his debut performance in The Little Shop of Horrors (which Corman shot in all of two days). Nicholson’s story got us thinking about other stars and their first movie roles, so we put together this quick video essay with a peek at some other famous film debuts. Check out our latest video essay after the jump. … Read More
The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Kevin Bacon, Chris Colfer, and John C. Reilly have joined a stacked cast that already includes George Clooney, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, and Martin Sheen in a Rob Reiner-directed performance of Dustin Lance Black’s play 8 on March 3rd in LA. Funds raised by the one-night only show will go to support marriage… Read More
What’s On at Flavorpill: The Links That Made the Rounds in Our Office
Today at Flavorpill, we wondered if Germany’s way of dealing with irresponsible drivers would work in American cities. We took a look at sex in modern art. We saw what RuPaul looked like in 1979. We watched the new Volkswagen Super Bowl commercial. We found out an answer to… Read More
Kevin Bacon Will Play a Retired FBI Agent on Fox’s New Serial Killer Show
Some exciting news for those of us who have always struggled with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Deadline reports that the ubiquitous actor has signed on to star in Kevin Williamson’s new Fox drama, “an edge-of-the-seat thriller about a diabolical serial killer who uses technology to create a cult of serial killers, and… Read More
Watch Dwight Schrute and Juno MacGuff Fight Crime
The trailer for Super — which is written and directed by James Gunn (Slither) and stars Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Kevin Bacon, Liv Tyler, and Nathan Fillion — makes it look like the kind of movie we originally thought that Kick-Ass was going to be: a warped indie comedy about wannabe superheros. Wilson plays a sad sack who decides to suit up as “Crimson Bolt” after his hot wife (Tyler) dumps him for a smarmy drug dealer (Bacon). Ellen Page is the comic book store clerk who helps educate him on the cannon before eventually slipping into a mask and tights as his sidekick, “Boltie.” We’ll definitely be checking this one out when it hits theaters on April 1st, if only to squirm over the idea of sexual tension between Wilson and Page. How about you? … Read More
Pic of the Day: Bacon Kevin Bacon
What you see above — a larger than life-size bust of Kevin Bacon made entirely out of bacon — is the work of artist Mike Lahue. J & D Foods, a Seattle-based company that makes bacon products, in partnership with bacon-crafting website What Do Bacon Do?, commissioned the sculpture, which is currently … Read More
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