This latest round-up of pieces on movies about movies from my upcoming book The Fractured Mirror contains two separate James Franco movies you’ve never heard of and I still have two more left to cover. Please stop making shitty movies about movies, James Franco! Oh wait, I forgot. You’re not making any movies inside Director Jail.
Read MoreBefore he directed a billion The Fast & Furious movies Justin Lin made 2007’s Finishing the Game, a goofy, amusing riff on the life, death and tacky afterlife of Bruce Lee.
Read MoreNicolas Cage made his directorial debut with the hopelessly overwrought 2002 hustler melodrama Sonny, featuring one of Brenda Blethyn’s worst performances and a cameo by the director bonkers even by his standards.
Read MoreSam Raimi’s famously disastrous third Spider-Man movie, featuring Tobey McGuire as a disco-dancing Emo web-slinger and a bleached blonde Eddie Haskell Venom is a goddamn mess but also surprisingly entertaining and weird, particularly in this era of cookie-cutter superhero sequels.
Read MoreThe Coen Brothers go West for six spooky tales equally powered by wordplay and gunplay.
Read MoreYou know how everyone says the adaptation of The Disaster Artist is great? That's because it is.
Read MoreIn an unsurprising turn of events, I've written a lot about The Room and The Disaster Artist both here and elsewhere.
Read MoreOn the latest Happy Cast we talk the intriguing double feature The Disaster Artist/Brigsby Bear, the astonishingly bad Suburban Commando and the even more bewilderingly terrible Rapsittee Street Kids: Believe in Santa! All this, plus depression! Great stories abound! Listen
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