Acquaintance of the blog Matthew Silver was just called an asshole by The Village Voice. It’s hard to imagine a purer assurance that you are indeed living a good and worthy life.
And in case you need assurance that Mr. Silver is worth your time, here’s the same example the Village Voice used:

…and watched other people work.

There’s a scene to be watched on the Wholpin DVD site today straight out of ‘The Guatemalan Handshake’ – if you haven’t seen the movie, this’ll give you a little more flavor than the trailers.
Here’s how Todd sets it up:
This is a story-within-the-story that serves as an uneven parallel to the film’s main story – [...]

All the bad reviews of 2007’s ‘The Invasion’ stuck in my head for a while. They were so bad I wanted to see the movie immediately. Maybe it’s the urge to see a real train wreck. Not just a b-movie flop, but something with some real muscle behind it.
It’s from the WB, [...]

I can’t look at this image without laughing.
If this one image can be this funny, imagine the rest of the movie.

Watching ‘Pineapple Express’ last night with a full audience, I wondered why there hadn’t been a chorus of Apatow’s critics pointing out how different a movie this is from the usual Apatow thing – outside of the usual “Can you believe David Gordon Green directed a comedy? Clearly that’s impossible, as all human beings [...]

Congratulations to Danny, Jody, Ben, Brian, Zene, Jeff, Dave, Randy, Jeff, Derek, Chris, Tyler, Pyramid and the other folks whom IMDb may have failed to list. It’s a major victory on top of a major victory that not only did this movie make it all the way, but that it did so (apparently) without [...]

That is until May 30.

I told you. And now here it comes.

Tonight, a ton of talented folks are up for awards at the Independent Spirit Awards. Among them, Craig Zobel is up for best first feature for ‘Great World of Sound’ along with his producers Melissa Palmer, David Gordon Green, and Richard Wright. Actor Kene Holliday is up for Best Supporting Actor for the [...]

Friends who’ve seen this are walking around with their minds all blown by unbridled, unrelenting, unnecessary hilarity. But my first exposure to it was the scene included on the ‘Superbad’ DVD set and… well… it’s a fine scene, no doubt, but my gut remained unbusted, sadly.
But now Crane has pointed me in the direction [...]

That there is Henry Leo DeFraction, the latest concept-to-completion project from writers/human makers Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick.
Congratulations, Henry! You just scored the coolest parents on the planet.

Sitting at home on a sick/work-at-home/snow day, I turn on the TV and find old friends all over the Sundance Channel. Dave Green and Craig Zobel both have movies at Sundance this year – “Snow Angels” and “Great World of Sound”, respectively.
And just when I thought that was all, I see that Marco [...]

Hi, everybody! The National Geographic News Podcast for Friday, October 13th is up and running. Check out new host Peter Standring’s vocal stylings and hear all about Paul Salopek’s time in a Sudanese prison.
Listen, won’t you?
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Casanova #5 is on its way, ladies (that’s not it to the side there, incidentally. That’s just [...]

Jody, Danny, and Ben have signed up with HBO to make ‘P.E.’, a show about a failed baseball player who returns to his hometown to teach P.E. at his middle school.
I. Can. Not. Wait.
I also still can’t wait to see ‘The Foot-Fist Way’ and I’m not sure why Paramount feels the need to make us [...]

Nothing is more disingenuous than an album review by a friend of the band. Maybe I shouldn’t admit to knowing anyone in the The Hard Tomorrows and so when I tell you that paying the $10 for their new CD, ‘Lights Out’, is worth it, you might not start looking around for grains of [...]

Attention:
Please join me in welcoming Olivia Claire Hines to the planet.
Congratulations, Hines’!

A quick note – The Guatemalan Handshake’s Todd Rohal (#24) is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film 2006. Sweet.
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Also, so is America’s Sweetheart, Mike Tully (#18).
Good luck in New York, Mike!

I’ve read the new installment of Matt Fraction and Gabriel Ba’s Casanova and it’s completely rich and strange. The art is great and the plot is utterly mind-bending. As if you needed more, there’s a scantily clad lady on the front holding guns. And at the end, Matt delves into some of [...]

You love Todd Rohal, you love Danny McBride and you love Holland. Yet you haven’t seen ‘The Sweaty Salesman’?
You better go here right now.
And don’t forget to vote for your favorite film.
EDIT: Your favorite film is ‘Tulips for Daisy’. That’s right. Todd is campaigning to keep his film in the 4% [...]

First and foremost, yesterday Casanova hit the comic store shelves. If you need an excuse to go the comic store, to get back into comices, to read, to look at pictures, to hold paper, or to give someone money, I can think of few smarter ways to go about doing so than purchasing this [...]

How long has it been? Four years? Five? Less? More? Whatever… I just got an email from old friend and new father Kevin Keck, who is publishing books like somebody’s burning them and, knowing Kev’s affinity for subjects that tend toward the rude and/or the nude, somebody somewhere most definitely [...]

Talking with Jim last night about the summer blockbusters and what needs to be seen and what needs to be left unseen. If nothing else, the summer movie season proves to me each and every year that, if I am a film snob, I’m not a very good one. I’m a sucker for [...]

Matt is very very at it again. Here’s the write up:
True story: in 1899, Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla decided to end war forever. With Twain’s connections and Tesla’s inventions, they went into business, selling world peace.
It’s coming from Image Comics in May. For those who are comics savvy, the super secret order [...]