To sit and talk with Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke is to get a textbook lesson on funny, and three different kinds of funny at that. As their “Hot Tub Time Machine” director Steve Pink observed, each of them works at a different speed – a notion that oddly offended them when we dared to suggest it late in our chat – and the roundtable interview the three did with Bullz-Eye and three other writers, their first of the day, covered the spectrum of comedy. In short, one of them used the word ‘meta,’ while another talked about…
Author: David Medsker
Our first meeting with Crispin Glover is in the hotel ski shop, of all places. He had just finished skiing a nearby resort, so immediately our experience with Crispin Glover the man is in stark contrast to our preconceived notions of Crispin Glover the character. He skis? He’s not performing acupuncture on himself, or teaching animals how to talk? No, sir. The real Crispin Glover is as far removed from the David Letterman freakout as you can imagine (something he addresses here). His answers were thoughtfully considered and extremely thorough, so much so t that the man made nine questions…
It takes a special brand of smartass to stand up to John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke, and the women of “Hot Tub Time Machine” are more than capable of holding their own against the big boys. Bullz-Eye took part in a roundtable interview with Lizzy Caplan and Collette Wolfe (Lyndsy Fonseca was a late scratch, due to a scheduling conflict) at the fabulous “Hot Tub” press junket about wearing old-age makeup, fake motherhood, and why John Cusack is so awesome. And since we talk in detail about the movie plot, let this serve as your official…
Within five seconds of meeting “Hot Tub Time Machine” director Steve Pink, we learned something very important: you don’t interview Steve Pink; Steve Pink interviews you. Before he had even sat down to discuss the movie – heck, before he was even in hearing range of our recorders – he was asking us if we liked the movie, and just as quickly asking us what we didn’t like about the movie, all before he had sat down. Never in our lives had we met a Hollywood player so willing to admit that they’re not perfect, and that openness led to…
Clark Duke has done three movies, each more awesomely titled than the last. After getting his first lead role in 2008’s underrated “Sex Drive,” Duke delivers a one-two movie title punch that may never be topped in “Hot Tub Time Machine” and “Kick-Ass.” Bullz-Eye got 10 minutes alone with Duke (after the actors submitted to hours of roundtable interviews) to discuss “Hot Tub” and “Sex Drive,” but wound up spending more time talking about ‘80s music, and how Kurt Cobain ruined it for everyone. Having flown in early that morning from Austin, after attending the South by Southwest premiere of…
Jennifer Aniston has spent the last 16 years basking in the glow of an adoring public the likes of which not even John Lennon knew in his lifetime. It stands to reason that eventually, these fans are going to expect something from her in return. If any other actress on the planet made the movies she’s made in the last five to seven years, they’d get a lifetime banishment to the Hallmark Channel. Aniston, on the other hand, continues to be weekly gossip mag fodder, despite having no real career to speak of. Yes, “Marley & Me” was a hit,…
For years, I’ve wanted to write a movie about Kirsty MacColl. She was an incredibly gifted singer and songwriter who released some of the most literate UK pop records of the ‘80s and ‘90s, contributed memorable guest vocals to albums by Morrissey, Billy Bragg and the Wonder Stuff, and her duet with the Pogues on “Fairytale of New York” is the biggest alt-rock Christmas song of all time. She even chose the final track sequencing for U2’s The Joshua Tree. In late 2000, she was struck down in a no-wake zone by a speeding boat while vacationing with her kids…
“Remember Me” feels like it was written by a sullen teenager, an endless parade of melodrama blind with rage and completely irrational. You know a movie has gone off the rails when it asks its audience to root for a grown man as he physically intimidates an 11-year-old girl. Tyler (Robert Pattinson) is a college-aged rebel without a clue, still mourning his brother’s suicide years earlier and hell-bent on making his ball-busting lawyer of a father (Pierce Brosnan) suffer along with him for the lack of emotional support he provides Tyler’s little sister Caroline (Ruby Jerins). Tyler runs afoul of…
I like movies that are a little crazy. Crazy movies have passion and ambition, and while that passion can sometimes be misguided, at the very least it results in something interesting. Tim Burton’s 3D take on “Alice in Wonderland,” on the other hand, is just plain nuts. It has style but no heart, an off-putting ‘weird for the sake of being weird’-ness to it that is more alienating than it is imaginative. And the post-“Avatar” viewing public will not be impressed by the gimmicky 3D. Presumably set in the late 1800s, when the story was written, 19-year-old Alice Kingsleigh (Mia…
If you’re watching a movie that chronicles the end of the world as we know it, odds are Roland Emmerich is responsible for it, and feeling mighty fine. After destroying New York and Los Angeles in “Independence Day” and the northern hemisphere in “The Day After Tomorrow,” Emmerich decided to go positively Biblical in his latest movie “2012,” laying the entire planet to waste and scaring up a whopping $766 million in worldwide box office in the process. With “2012” about to make its debut on Blu-ray and DVD, Bullz-Eye spoke with Emmerich about a possible “Independence Day” sequel, the…