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Sean Penn to play Larry in Farrelly Bros. “The Three Stooges”

MGM and the Farrelly brothers are closing in on their cast for “The Three Stooges.”

Studio has set Sean Penn to play Larry, and negotiations are underway with Jim Carrey to play Curly, with the actor already making plans to gain 40 pounds to approximate the physical dimensions of Jerome “Curly” Howard.

The studio is zeroing in on Benicio Del Toro to play Moe. (from Variety)

My brain is preventing me from having an emotional reaction to this news, clearly protecting me from the inevitable confusion embolism.

Awesome/Stupid/Pointless: The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (2007)

Awesome:

  • Sam Shepard in a western is always awesome. Even that silly one about history’s most famous gunslingers stuck in purgatory.
  • Brad Pitt is a pretty menacing and unstable Jesse James.
  • Casey Affleck’s Creepy Nervous Smile™.

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Lucas Wanted Indy To Be A Pedophile

As if you needed another reason to think ‘ol Georgie was a gigantodouche, now it looks like he wanted everybody’s favorite archaeologist/adventurer to commit statutory rape. According to a transcript of a story meeting between Lucas, Spielberg, and Lawrence Kasdan, George expressed his windowless-van-full-of-candy side: Continue reading Lucas Wanted Indy To Be A Pedophile

Straight-to-DVD Corner with Tonn Slingdog: His Name Was Jason

Somehow timed perfectly with the release of the Friday the 13th reboot in theaters, Anchor Bay released this DVD documentary about the history of the franchise.  It is essentially made for those fans that are religous about Jason and his silly movies, but those of us who simply enjoy these slasher films for their irresponsible but highly amusing nonsense will get out a kick out of it as well. Continue reading Straight-to-DVD Corner with Tonn Slingdog: His Name Was Jason