A couple of weeks ago, Todd and I went to see The Ruins and were the only two people in the theater. Normally, Todd doesn’t like to be the center of attention, but with some gentle coaxing I was able to capture some rare and candid shots of Todd in the lobby. I expect a Miley Cyrus-like reaction from him almost immediately. Read more »
The Pigs enjoy a movie! Sure, it’s a dumb sequel-y sequel of a pot comedy, but still, this is progress, people. (IMDb)
Today was a day like any other day. I spent most of the day in the car. I had to dress up like a frog for a commercial audition. After that proud moment, on my way back to my car, I walked by another car filled with young girls and when they got a good look at me one of them said in an extremely audible fashion, “Hell, no!” (I wasn’t making an overtures. But she really wanted me to know, anyway.) Read more »
Here we go again, disappointed by the number one movie at the box office for the umpteenth time in a row. (IMDb)
NEW YORK — “21″ scribe Peter Steinfeld will adapt the lottery scam memoir “Money for Nothing” for Warner Independent Pictures, Michael De Luca Prods. and Tobey Maguire’s Maguire Entertainment.
WIP optioned Edward Ugel’s wry take on his experiences talking lottery winners into taking lump-sum cash payments against their future earnings — and pocketing a good chunk of change for himself in the process.
De Luca’s Alissa Phillips and ME’s Mark Ross will oversee the project for their companies. WIP creative executive Richard Gold will oversee for his studio.
Ugel’s HarperCollins book, subtitled “One Man’s Journey Through the Dark Side of Lottery Millions,” was published in September.
Next, Steinfeld will adapt the biography of Coinstar founder Herbert T. Ackerman, “8 9/10 Percent Of Nothing.” Following that, Steinfeld is slated to work on a big big-budget thriller about the troubled history of the two-dollar bill.
After that, he’ll write a big-screen version of how I once won four hundred dollars on a video poker machine.
Swayze. Elliott. Boobs. Few words encompass the greatness that is American cinema more than these words, and few films possess all three qualities at once. Road House is such a film. Join the Film Pigs as they relive the wonder of a late 80s action masterpiece, complete with all the mullets and pleated pants one could want. Marvel as they give voice to their shared crush on the ultimate man that is Sam Elliott. And, as always, please enjoy the boobs. (IMDb)
SPECIAL NOTE: Please forgive the minor distortion in the recording. Sam Elliott’s mustache simply overpowered our weak, mama’s boy microphone. We are rightfully shamed. Please forgive us Sam!
Because I hate myself so completely, I continue to read Entertainment Weekly, and every week there’s at least one thing that boils my blood and causes me to involuntarily throw the magazine at my fireplace. This week it was an article about “stoner movies” in which the author boldly stated that pot movies make lots of money because they do. Way to go out on a limb! But it wasn’t the stupidity of the puff piece that made me mad given that I have been completely desensitized to inane puff pieces. What made me mad was Seth Rogan. He obviously feels he has made the best stoner movies to date. Read more »
So I got a PlayStation 3 and there was this rebate for 5 Blu-ray discs - the catch was you could only select from a horribly crippled list of possibilities (and you had to select from different tiers with only a few titles available on each tier, making selection of 5 decent titles virtually impossible and causing this sentence to run on and on and on…). Anyway, I sent off the rebate 6-8 weeks ago and forgot about it. Read more »
…as written in a text message to a friend while watching the movie:
“There is a lot of really awesome stuff about The Darjeeling Limited. It is also an unforgivably meandering and kind of deeply shitty movie. It’s more self-gazing and tickled by its own imagined awesomeness than Paris Hilton getting fucking in a hall of mirrors.”
Okay, well, granted, that text message is pretty tickled by its own imagined awesomeness too, but at least I didn’t make a movie out of it. Read more »
Welcome to a bold new direction for the Film Pigs as we hop on the blog bandwagon only 5 years too late! We’ve converted our site to use WordPress so we can start posting our nonsense more often and to let you have a more direct route to post your love (or hate as the case may be. We seem to generate lots of indirect and humorless loathing out there in the Internets tubes).
You should be able to search and enjoy our movie reviews and commentaries, and leave your own comments as well. In the next few weeks you should also see the site return to its signature look that you know and love as I learn how to make a WordPress theme (you did love the look of the old site, didn’t you? It took me hours!).
As always, please send any comments (like, hey your comments system doesn’t work) to webmaster at film pigs dot com.
-Skelton
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