2008-07-04T12:23:00Z http://shareddarkness.com/atom.aspx Quick Blog tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-03:1f49f503-5a24-4cb6-9310-f6e0a631dba9 Brent Simon 2008-07-03T12:13:29Z 2008-07-03T00:45:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-02:95f65d52-7b8a-4c95-ba41-8ac215130988 Brent Simon 2008-07-03T12:07:28Z 2008-07-02T23:00:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-02:5957f9e2-e9d3-47b2-b001-6fb117b902f9 Brent Simon 2008-07-02T18:09:33Z 2008-07-02T09:00:00Z

I went into Drillbit Taylor with lowered expectations. I missed the movie during its March theatrical release, but had read the negative-trending reviews. The failed suicide attempt of Owen Wilson cast a shadow over things, certainly, making for an awkward sell with the public, given that its famously wry and sunny, butterscotch lead couldn't or didn't fully press the flesh on the movie's behalf. The result was a $32 million domestic shrug. The truth is, though, Drillbit Taylor quite plainly doesn't work on its own terms. A comedy that doesn't know whether it wants to be a movie about high school essentially for adults (see: Election) or a slapstick-y farce for kids, it's about five percent inspiration and 95 percent downhill coasting...

tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-02:0905611f-8b69-407d-b0dd-aea19c73a41b Brent Simon 2008-07-02T18:56:05Z 2008-07-02T08:25:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-02:caf613e8-701e-4312-9c0d-0617e3c5e4e2 Brent Simon 2008-07-02T10:48:08Z 2008-07-02T08:05:00Z

As previously mentioned, on Monday I did some interviews for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, opening wide July 18, and Mike Mignola, the originator of the source material, talked a little bit about his collaboration with director Guillermo del Toro -- including a rather strange visit to a haunted house with he and composer Danny Elfman...

tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-02:82746715-a6a5-4599-8294-904bed44757e Brent Simon 2008-07-01T16:48:16Z 2008-07-02T00:05:00Z

Long week, so I just put a bullet in the June 24 episode of The Colbert Report, with Will Smith guesting to promote Hancock, a rarity for Stephen Colbert's show. After an inspired opening segment bit in which he took Smith to task for being at the forefront of Hollywood's "glorification of face violence" (his latest cause du jour, after a mysterious injury last week that left him with a couple stitches between his eyebrows), Colbert mostly stuck to genial set-ups instead of jabs, asking Smith if his support of Barack Obama was part of a conspiracy to eventually play him in a movie. More after the jump...

tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-01:373c3ef9-1ccb-4fed-bb95-ecc6f55767af Brent Simon 2008-07-01T14:14:00Z 2008-07-01T23:40:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-01:ab4fa790-b575-4bed-92f3-41ba539638ce Brent Simon 2008-07-01T16:25:17Z 2008-07-01T15:49:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-01:772a63c9-ebba-4a75-942c-ff567f3390b3 Brent Simon 2008-07-01T14:34:47Z 2008-07-01T14:15:00Z

Is anyone shocked that Molly Ringwald is apparently begging John Hughes for a sequel to 16 Candles? Well of fucking course she is. She's not a total brain stem, I guess. More after the jump...

tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-07-01:80b94f87-d5f4-4639-9559-90ba9533c650 Brent Simon 2008-07-01T15:06:05Z 2008-07-01T14:00:00Z

I did some interviews yesterday for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and Luke Goss, who appears in that film under a lot of white make-up as a spear-twirling elven prince bent on Earthly domination, talked about his next movie, the just-wrapped big screen adaptation of the videogame series Tekken. More after the jump...

tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-30:fffcafdb-4ffd-4a8b-b722-23f7b23d1b59 Brent Simon 2008-07-01T12:25:27Z 2008-06-30T09:30:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-30:57757dd3-929f-4e43-9fbf-a85fd26c02b4 Brent Simon 2008-07-01T13:55:36Z 2008-06-30T09:15:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-30:754a9607-1d4f-4a4f-910c-28b3a0e61b29 Brent Simon 2008-06-30T22:24:33Z 2008-06-30T09:00:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-28:76385242-4306-470a-8a55-f43babd2c324 Brent Simon 2008-06-28T15:55:16Z 2008-06-28T14:00:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-28:b22a6b0e-2b20-4e06-9351-b3ca343ffaf8 Brent Simon 2008-06-28T16:11:32Z 2008-06-28T13:00:00Z

In a career that has spanned over 50 years as a writer, producer and director, Blake Edwards has delivered classics in nearly every genre. To that end, his varied body of work will be celebrated at the Aero Theatre in Santa Monica during the month of July, with screenings of his wild comedies as well as thrillers and musicals...

tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-28:0af61024-f519-4961-a2f6-b26d921f03da Brent Simon 2008-06-26T17:33:05Z 2008-06-28T06:45:00Z

I'm sorry, but this story about Jenna Fischer, and her years-ago encounter with creep-o writer-director Shem Bitterman, needs to be put further out there. Apparently recounted during an interview with Playboy (how'd I miss that?), Fischer talked about her most memorable encounter with a sleazy industry-type. A golden-shower excerpt follows after the jump...

tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-28:f45a7a32-435c-4fb1-a5e0-9564a4be9534 Brent Simon 2008-06-27T08:25:38Z 2008-06-28T00:00:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-27:f5cbcec8-3cf0-4f67-ac0a-3086c7f2229b Brent Simon 2008-06-27T07:06:27Z 2008-06-27T06:57:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-26:bf726357-293a-4a7a-9f42-d69d5af5bcb5 Brent Simon 2008-06-26T15:21:32Z 2008-06-26T15:15:00Z tag:shareddarkness.com,2008-06-26:b3db5c48-d3ba-47d0-8627-4af0917643ae Brent Simon 2008-06-26T17:05:08Z 2008-06-26T06:20:00Z

I chatted with Jenna Fischer a while back, in advance of the sadly aborted release of The Promotion, and she confirmed that The Office was a dream gig for her in more ways than the obvious. She also gave some advice for those working as caterers...