Pot-Dealing Sitcom WEEDS, Strong New Show

This Sunday, The Showtime cable network premieres its hip sitcom, Weeds. The Hollywood Reporter writes, "Over and over again, creator/writer/exec producer Jenji Kohan tells us that it's the so-called normal folks who are nuts and it's the people who seem twisted that really have their heads on straight."  Weeds stars Mary-Louise Parker as an upper class scoccer mom, dealing to pay the bills after her husband dies. Click on for the Hollywood Reporter's review.

5 Aug, 2005 - 8:06 AM
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NY Times Loves Bill Murray In BROKEN FLOWERS

Another movie that isn't the crap-filled wonderland that will be the Dukes of Hazzard remake, is Jim Jarmusch's new film, Broken Flowers. Bill Murray stars as a man on the road, searching for the ex-girlfriend son who may be his. Click over for the solid New York Times review.

5 Aug, 2005 - 3:46 AM
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Darren Aronofsky's THE FOUNTAIN Site Online!

Don't get too excited Aronofsky freaks, at the moment all the site is, is an ocillating, psychedelic wash of colors that slowly changes while music loops endlessly. The movie opens this fall and is about a man (X-Men's Hugh Jackman) existing in multiple time periods, searching for the foutain of youth, we think.

3 Aug, 2005 - 3:10 PM
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Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD Finally Going To Become Film

Director Walter Salles (Motorcycle Diaries, Dark Water) and producer Francis Ford Coppola (dir. Godfathers, Apocalypse Now) are finally going to adapt Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" to film.  Salles screenwriting partner, Jose Rivera, is writing the script.  On the Road is an American classic.

5 Aug, 2005 - 4:05 AM
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Great Cast In Indie THUMBSUCKER Trailer!

Keanu Reeves, Vince Vaughn, Tilda Swinton, Vincent "SVU" D'Onofrio, and Bejamin Brat play supporting roles in this solid looking high school angst flick from music video director Mike Mills. Thumbsucker is based on Walter Kirn's novel of the same name. It concerns a boy, his orally fixated problems, the wack adults that circle his existence, and the girls that don't.  Check it.

3 Aug, 2005 - 6:48 PM
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Is Dave's CHAPPELLE SHOW Over, Bitch?

Master storyteller, friend and cast member of Comedy Central's Chappelle Show, Charlie Murphy (his brother's name is Eddie), is saying there is no hope left that Dave Chappelle will continue filming the third season of his hit sketch show. For whatever reasons, Chappelle Show is over, bitch. Half of the third season was filmed before Chappelle bugged out.

3 Aug, 2005 - 2:47 PM
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