DVD Tuesday Kill Bill A trip down exploitation-movie memory laneI like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguezs Grindhouse 2007 But I love Tarantinos Kill Bill Both tap into fond memories of haunting the real grindhouses of New Yorks then notorious Times Square Times Square was never what it used to be There was always someone around to tell you that you should have seen it when Cue some nostalgic tale that starts it was so sleazy that Trust me back in the 1970s it was plenty sleazy and today its like the Las Vegas casino version of its bad old self But what a place to see low-budget American horror yakuza pictures spaghetti Westerns Eurotrash thrillers and sexploitation martial arts epics mondo movies and assorted weirdness all of which and more go into the Kill Bill mixThe plot is simple if digressive A professional assassin code named Black Mamba Uma Thurman is murdered on her wedding on her wedding day Except that she doesnt die After
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Forget my crack about the slashed Metamucil budget. Per Variety, Jim Broadbent will play a Yale professor in the fourth Indiana Jones film, which Steven Spielberg began lensing Monday in New Mexico, but will also shoot in, among other global sites, New Haven, Connecticut.... Kate Hudson will star opposite Dane Cook in Bachelor No. 2, a rom-com about a man hired to take other men's exes out on horrific dates, thus sending them back to their former fellas.... HBO Films is adapting the British play My Zinc Bed, with Uma Thurman, Jonathan Pryce and Paddy Considine all on board.... DreamWorks and Universal are turning the graphic novel Cowboys & Aliens into a live-action feature.
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Bryan Greenberg has nothing to complain about. First, he snuggled up to Hilarie Burton on One Tree Hill, then he was all over Uma Thurman in Prime, and now he's smooching That '70s gal Laura Prepon in the new ABC drama October Road, debuting tonight at 10 pm/ET. Returning to his hometown after 10 years, Greenberg's author Nick Garrett is welcomed back with hesitation by those who feel betrayed by his first novel, and that's where the story really begins: The on-screen romances are just a
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In an interview appearing in this weekend's Parade magazine, Ethan Hawke hints at the circumstances surrounding his 2004 split from wife Uma Thurman, with whom he has two children, ages 8 and 4. Confessing that he "never wanted to be too hot,” but instead prefers to fly under the radar, Hawke says being wed to another celebrity took its toll. "I didn’t like being famous when I was single, and what it did to my celebrity status to be married to another famous person was a huge pressure," he shares. "One I didn’t enjoy." Citing half of today's most headline-making duo, Hawke marvels, "I don’t know how Brad Pitt does it.”
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I spent the whole weekend in Atlanta playing Guitar Hero 2... and yes, it was awesome! For those of you who don't know what that is, it's a game for Playstation 2. It's basicaly like guitar karaoke. It just came out Wednesday and has a lot more games than the first one and you can do multi-player with one person playing lead, the other bass. I spent the whole weekend opening up levels/songs. I think I've found the new love of my life. When I did break away from my virtual rockstar life, I was watching movies. HBO has been playing one of my favorite movies a lot lately — Prime. It's a fabulous movie, with some really great actors: Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Bryan Greenberg. If you have time, you should definitely check it out. I also made it to see Babel. That was a really amazing movie. The movie had a lot of layers, but I found that it was mostly about the breakdown of communication between people and cultures. Every actor in the movie was great. And one of my favorite actors,...
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