Inexpilcable American Gladiators Movie Gets A Writer

It remains a mystery how the ultimate cheeseball game show American Gladiators will be turned into a movie, but screenwriter Peter Iliff apparently has an answer for us. According to Variety he's been hired to write the bigscreen American Gladiators movie, which will feature all those old familiar characters like Turbo and Blaze, but turn them into superheroes. Because, obviously, inventing new superheroes out of meathead TV competitors is a good idea. I love American Gladiators as much as the ...

Luke Greenfield To Direct Something Borrowed

I understand that as a 20-something male I am not the target demographic, but is there any sub-genre more insulting than the wedding-centered romantic comedy? As Katey touched on earlier today with the trailer for Leap Year, reducing women to wedding-crazed nut jobs is not only stupid, but kind of insulting (even us menfolk can see that). Because of repeated success, however, we won't see the end of them any time soon, and now we have another one coming down ...

First Shot From THE AMERICAN

Clooney’s taking aim…at our excitement.

Okay, as lame as that may have been, there’s not denying how cool this first shot is from George Clooney’s upcoming film, THE AMERICAN.  It comes to us today courtesy of Collider, who had a man out at the American Film Market last week to snag up images just like this one.

In the film, Clooney plays a skilled assassin.  After a botched job, a lover ends up dead, and the assassin vows that his next job will be his last.  It could very well be just that, as he finds himself letting his guard down.

To this…

Betty Draper And Bridget Von Hammersmark: Together At Last

Five years ago, there is no way you would have been able to tell January Jones and Diane Kruger apart just by looking at their photos. Jones had a big part in American Wedding, of course, and Kruger was the most beautiful woman in history in Troy, but come one. They're both unbelievably gorgeous blondes with blue eyes who, until recently, were more likely to play eye candy than characters with real substance. But in 2009, of course, Jones and Kruger ...

Cool Stuff: Zombie Wedding Cake

If I ever get married, I would hope that my fiance would let me have a geek wedding cake as cool as this one (or, of course, the Back to the Future cake we've previously featured). Not only did this groom propose by creating a zombie movie, but the Seattle-based couple commissioned Mike's Amazing Cakes to create this very awesome zombie-themed red velvet wedding cake. "They made the Bride and Groom on top look like us down to the tux and dress, and the zombies matched our wedding party too!" I love how at the top of the cake the Bride and the Groom are fending zombies off with chainsaws, together. source: Flickr (via Neatorama) Cool Stuff is a daily feature of slashfilm.com. Know of any geekarific creations or cool products which should be featured on Cool Stuff? E-Mail us at orfilms@gmail.com.

Blu-ray Review: Monsoon Wedding (Criterion Collection)

My experience with Mira Nair is limited at best. I did not enjoy Vanity Fair and The Namesake bored me beyond measure, but that's where my time watching her films ended prior to Criterion's latest Blu-ray release of Monsoon Wedding, a spectacular dramedy surrounding a Punjabi wedding, which instantly reminded me of Jonathan Demme's 2008 [...]

What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #12

Okay, so I didn't watch only these two movies, but I have a few movies I am saving for actual reviews including the new Natural Born Killers Blu-ray and Mira Nair's Monsoon Wedding which hits Criterion Blu-ray on October 20. While Monsoon Wedding will be a traditional review, I hope to encourage some conversation when [...]

Top Ten Working American Directors

Top Ten Working American Directors A list like this is tricky to the point of madness. However, I'm going to save you the trouble by saying it right here, right now: Most of the choices on this list are obvious. There's a reason why certain names continually pop up whenever conversation drifts toward great American [...]

Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush Rekindle Romance

Khloe Kardashian's quickie wedding must have rekindled old feelings between Kim Kardashian and Reggie Bush. Even though the two parted ways a couple of months ago, sources say the bootylicious gal has gone back to her NFL star boyfriend. Another wedding in the works? Spare us...

Jay Chandrasekhar Locked and Loaded for Shotgun Wedding

Jay Chandrasekhar, of Broken Lizard, has made a decent name for himself as a cult comedy director. After he had the hilarious Super Troopers under his belt (we'll just ignore Club Dread out of courtesy), he made the jump to a more mainstream comedy in the 2005 bland and uninspired Dukes of Hazzard. Luckily he followed it up with another worthy cult comedy in Beerfest. As of late, Chandrasekhar has spent a lot of time as a gun for hire directing episodes for Universal television series like "Psych" and "Chuck." Variety now reports his return to features directing Shotgun Wedding, comedy he co-wrote with David Gilcreast. The low budget comedy follows the traveling antics of a bachelor when he asks his friends to join him on a weekend trip for his wedding (uh oh, sounds like The Hangover). Aside from the story details, I'm sure we can expect that Chandrasekhar ...