- You know what, we love this and we’re close enough that we might just have to drive in — The Hagerstown, Maryland baseball team The Suns are giving away “My Name Is Earl” bobbleheads to the first 1,000 fans at the games this Sunday! We’re not sure if these are exclusive to the game or just something that’s available to the general public, but it’s intriguing. They’re also holding an Earl look-alike contest at that very game, which sounds like a blast — A great way to spend the weekend — And we’re still upset about missing that all you can eat Chick-Fil-A thing on Monday. Go Suns!
- Our pal Ben Affleck is getting some RAVE early reviews for his turn Hollywoodland, a good sign of a fantastic performance. Check out this posting from Aint It Cool News where the reviewer really takes his hat off to the guy. Check out a bit of it:
Yes. Yes it will. Right from the get go, Affleck hands his haters a nice, hearty, steaming cup of STFU as he comes out swinging with what is easily the single greatest performance of his career. No. Stop laughing. I’m not kidding. He’s actually really, really good. The man becomes George Reeves – both in his off screen persona and as the 50’s era Superman. The cadence of his speech, the poses he strikes for the kids, the sharp humor mixed with a deep sadness – Affleck delivers a complex, layered performance the likes of which few are expecting and unlike anything he’s done before. Affleck acts in this as if his life depended on it, so much so that even his harshest critics are going to have to admit this is at the very least an above average performance.
- Call us crazy, but we’re still stoked for the release of Damon and Affleck’s third Project Greenlight attempt, “Feast”. We love horror and this looks like good, bloody, cheesy fun, with a great cast including our own Jay Mewes. If anyone’s got an early screener, hook us up! In the meantime, Fangoria has posted this brand new trailer which seems to change the origins of the creatures in the film (according to the opening titles, anyway).
- Dark Horizons and the IMDB both report bad news for Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales”, in which Kevin plays a small role. Seems that the studio is sort of butchering his film, forcing MAJOR cuts and edits given the poor reception at Cannes. We say let the dude make the flick he wants and release it that way, as we’d like to see this one the way it was intended, not some crazy re-edit. Check thit out:
Hollywood director Richard Kelly is furious after learning distributors plan to cut one hour of footage from his latest movie Southland Tales. Kelly’s follow-up to his cult hit Donnie Darko received a disastrous reception from critics at the Cannes Film Festival in France earlier this year. And the 31-year-old now has no idea of American audiences will ever get to see the movie as he intended it to be seen. He tells Hotdog magazine, “What’s disappointing, frustrating is that now I don’t know that Southland Tales will be seen in the United States. Maybe it will, but potentially it could be shown with almost an hour of it missing. I don’t quite know what that film is. It was intended to be this epic LA story. I just don’t know if I have the energy anymore. I tried. I tried. And hopefully they’ll (the fans) get a chance to see it at some point.”
- Could this be a Clerks II postcard reference from the postcard secret website? We’re still not sure. Ponder it over and we’ll see ya next time…
