Karina Longworth

"Did you see Big Fish? It was this big!"

Alice in Chains: Tim Burton in La-La Land

Between the candy-colored, kid-friendly billboards sprinkled across urban areas and the hipster music blogs hyping soundtrack contributions from the Cure's Robert Smith, it's been hard to peg exactly whom Tim Burton's live-action/CGI hybrid Alice in Wonderland was actually made for. Even curiouser, in a recent story titled "Disney Invites 'Goths'......
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Daily Show Ancestors, and Dosa Truck

I know it sometimes must seem like I'm obsessed with Cinefamily and their amazing film programming at the Silent Movie Theater; that is only because I am. Tonight, they're launching a new series called What's Up, Docs?, through which cool documentaries will screen every Thursday in March, and (fingers crossed)b......
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OK Go Build World's Largest Rube Goldberg Machine in Echo Park

Whatever you think of OK Go (AKA That Band That Got Famous Dancing On Treadmills On YouTube), you can't say they're not faithful to their own brand: The One-Shot Wow. Their latest video, for the song "This Too Shall Pass," features the band members lipsyncing amongst the largest Rube Goldberg......
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Oscar Scandals Caught on Tape

Oscar night rapidly approaches, and the show's new producer, Adam Shankman (the director of The Pacifier, Prop 8: The Musical, and Zac Efron's Pool Party) has made repeated attempts to try to rebrand the gay Super Bowl as "the world's best-dressed reality competition show." But the Academy Awards telecast has......
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Jeff Bridges' Voice Removed From Oscar Telecast

Expect to see frequent cutaways to Best Actor Oscar favorite and frequent corporate pitchman Jeff Bridges on Sunday night's telecast, but be prepared to hear less of him than usual for prime time TV. Hyundai has announced that they're pulling their Bridges-narrated commercials from the program, in accordance with an......
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Cop Out: That's Police Entertainment!

It doesn't take long for Kevin Smith's Cop Out to establish its movie lineage. The film's opening shot, set to the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn," is a slow-motion, toe-to-head tilt-up of white cop-black cop buddies Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) swaggering stone-faced toward the camera. Smith,......

Hollywood Stock Exchange Becomes Actual Stock Exchange

Gather round, kids, as Mommy tells you a story about Ye Olde Internet. Back in the heady Web 1.0/"e-commerce" days, people cared about a website called Hollywood Stock Exchange, which offered a kind of fantasy betting league based on the perceived/projected commodity value of movie stars and film projects. As......

Can George Lopez Politically Correct Speedy Gonzales?

TV star George Lopez and his wife/producing partner Anna Lopez are collaborating with the guys who wrote the Garfield movies on a "live-action/CG hybrid" Speedy Gonzales feature. George will voice the Spanglish-speaking Speedy. and The first Speedy short, in 1955, won an Oscar, but Cartoon Network pulled the classic Gonzales cartoons from their......

A Very Special Episode Evening

With the recent disappearance of Andrew Koenig--AKA Boner from Growing Pains--'80s TV has surely been on all of our minds lately. What a golden era it was, when actual teenagers could learn life lessons just by watching TV teenagers make seemingly minor mistakes, only to suffer catastrophic consequences. If you......
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SHOWGIRLS 2: It's real, and the trailer is NSFW batshit insane.

Last fall, word started to spread on the interwebs that an unknown German director named Marc Vorlander was planning to make a sequel to Showgirls, the Paul Verhoeven's 1995 trashterpiece, beloved by some but dismissed by many as one of the worst films of all time. In October, Vorlander confirmed......