What does an R-rated kids' movie look like? We might just find out when The Monkey, director Osgood Perkins' adaptation of the Stephen King short story, hits theaters. "The Monkey is like Robert Zemeckis on ecstasy or something," Perkins tells Entertainment Weekly in an interview for his current film Longlegs. "It's a very playful comedy with a lot of really excessive gore, language. It's a kids' movie that's rated R." First published in Gallery magazine in 1980, The Monkey is the story of twins Hal and Bill, who discover their father's monkey toy in the attic as boys. Read More...
Spoiler alert: If you haven’t watched the season finale of The Originals, stop reading now! [Disclaimer: Time Warner Cable decided to air baseball in NYC tonight, so I had to watch a live-stream, which means no screenshots and few quotables — but I refused not to watch live!] For those of you who didn’t come over from The Vampire Diaries, I would like to officially welcome you to a freakin’ Julie Plec finale. Read More...
To quote Erika (Girardi, not Jayne, I think): “We’re on this big beautiful bridge…to nowhere. She’s talking about Pont d’Avignon, a medieval bridge in Provence that stops right in the middle of the Rhône, but she might as well be talking about the end of this Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season. Because if LVP is going to be completely MIA save for her (now particularly apt) “kiss my arse” title card in the opening credits, and if we’re going to experience traumatic event after traumatic event without a real storyline in sight as we crawl toward the Reunion, then I guess the least they could do is give us a fancy French chateau to look at. Read More...
