He’s an Oscar winner with a new film directed by Werner Herzog coming out (Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans), so it’s not really like Nicolas Cage needs any career advice from a blog. Let’s have some fun anyway: Isn’t…
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R.J. Cutler has based his career on observing the real and turning it into the reel. The Yale-educated former theater director has made a name for himself in the worlds of both non-fictional film and television. He was the producer…
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If you were a “kid” growing up in the United States or Canada in the nineteen-forties, you probably spent many a Saturday afternoon at your local movie house. For twenty-five cents you got admission to the theater, a box…
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Younger horror fans may not know it, but for a brief period in fright film history–between the ’30s and ’40s heyday of Dracula, the Frankenstein Monster and the Wolf Man and the ’80s “splatter” era of Michael, Jason and Freddy–literature’s original…
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You’d never know that the guy sitting a few feet away was one of the “screaming comics of the 1980s.” It couldn’t be Sam Kinison. He’s gone, died in a car accident in Needles, California in 1992. Andrew Dice Clay?…
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Robin Williams in front of the camera…Bobcat Goldthwait behind it! What kind of comedy have the two standup legends concocted…and is it worth a trip to the movie theater to find out? “Movie Irv” has just seen World’s Greatest Dad,…
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One of the most recognizable character actors of the past three decades has to be Mike Starr. With his hulking 6’3″ frame Mike cuts an imposing figure. As a result, much of his TV and film work have typecast him…
Read more →You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! Alright: “Uncle!” Geez, I thought you guys liked being called Basterds. Can I get up now?
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Down the road, I have a more substantial piece about Werner Herzog in mind (as I come ever closer to finishing his just-released book, Conquest of the Useless: Reflections from the Making of Fitzcarraldo), but I couldn’t resist calling attention…
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What is an 83-year-old entertainment icon doing in bed with a well-known TV mother after being slipped a mickey with a sex pill in it? Inquiring minds want to know. And they’ll get their answer if they go to see…
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