If I had been working as a film critic in 1968, I would have warned pregnant women against seeing Rosemary’s Baby . Today I’d say the same thing about We Need to Talk About Kevin : You don’t know what you might be getting when your little bundle finally arrives, and it’s probably better not to think about it in advance.
I love when celebrities can’t behave on airplanes. Travel is the only occasion where they can’t hide from plebes, and I imagine it hurts them tremendously even to acknowledge the tiny plastic cups of Diet Coke around them. Or the little Wheat Thins packets. Three recent celebrity snafus on airplanes deserve full cinematic adaptations (including one that just occurred a couple days ago), and I’ve decided to cast them before Jason Reitman can turn their traumas into Oscar material starring George Clooney and Vera Farmiga. Come fly with these lunatics!
Perhaps it’s fitting that talking about I Melt With You means talking about all the things it tries — and fails — to be. The story of a boom-and-bust weekend shared by four reuniting college cronies, I Melt With You is driven by music from its title on, setting the perennial crisis in middle-aged masculinity to glittery eighties beats. An industrial grade melodrama with more cuts than a pound of Bolivian marching powder, the movie aspires to all sorts of aesthetic heights — from Reagan-era reckoning to Iron John implosion to feature-length video for a Jay McInerney cover band. That might make it sound like more fun than it is: Although a stark performative moment here and a cold, sexy shot there slip through, all of the film’s lesser ambitions are undone by its most risible one — to be serious, and thus be taken seriously.
Actors get lots of credit for their work on screen and even their preparations for roles, but rarely do they delve into the tedious process of the voiceover recording they must also endure. But NSFW I Melt with You viral star #5 /(hypothetical) MPAA crusader Sasha Grey is here to give us a peak behind the scenes by sharing a few notes she recently received during her last voice over session. Who knew it was so tough?
Two new SNL videos have emerged from Studio 8H on this lazy Wednesday afternoon: The first highlights a pair of promos for this weekend’s Jesse Eisenberg-hosted show, where Bill Hader congratulates The Social Network star for his Oscar nomination. Standard stuff. Not the second video, though, which features a rare look at the SNL dress rehearsal. Have you ever wanted to see Seth Meyers sarcastically berate the crowd for not responding correctly to his “Update” jokes — a sin which means that joke will not air during the live broadcast? Here’s your chance! Also, if you think that Hader has difficulty getting through his lines as Stefon on the live broadcasts, you really need to watch how hard it is for him at dress rehearsal.
Expect more to come about this film from Movieline’s Park City bureau, but for now, rest assured that those puzzling I Melt With You videos you saw here last week will soon (hopefully) make all the more sense: Magnolia Pictures just announced it has picked up Mark Pellington’s polarizing Sundance premiere for US distribution. “”Thomas Jane, Rob Lowe, Jeremy Piven and Christian McKay give some of the best performances of their entire careers and attention must be paid,” said Magnolia acquisitions boss Tom Quinn in a statement. Exciting! And, as always, developing…
It was good to be an American last week. After all, not only did Parks and Recreation return to NBC after eight months on the shelf, but people actually watched — the season three premiere was Parks and Recreation ‘s highest rated episode yet. That was great news for everyone, but especially Chris Pratt. As you may have noticed, the premiere featured an extended “previously on” clip package to open the show, highlighting the unrequited love between Pratt’s Andy and Aubrey Plaza’s April. He’s rapidly becoming Pawnee’s answer to Jim Halpert, with 100 percent more flannel.
The mass walkouts were the first indication that Mark Pellington’s I Melt with You was heading for a rocky Sundance reception; even critics who’d made it through couldn’t wait to spill out into the hallways and let the vitriol fly. I Melt with You was, effectively, the first hands-down bomb of the festival. But does Pellington’s midlife-crisis male-bonding thriller — which was picked up today by Magnolia Pictures — deserve all the flack?
Well, Christian McKay isn’t mumbling Eminem lyrics into an oscillating fan in this latest — and final — viral clip for I Melt With You . What he is doing, though, is having a bit of a post-shave breakdown into a hand towel. Dudes; you just never know what’s going to start the waterworks. Click ahead to see the sadness.
The despondent , face-ripping marvel that is I Melt With You went even crazier this afternoon wit the release of its latest… teaser? Experimental plug? Tormented curio? All of the above? Whatever you want to call this krazy klip , it features co-star Thomas Jane’s own headscratching riff on the “pain of the modern male psyche.” Because when Tom Jane hurts, he apparently takes it out on the desert.