Author: Will Harris

“Don’t fuck with me, fellas! This ain’t my first time at the rodeo…!” – Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway), in Mommie Dearest I know, you thought I’d open with the “no wire hangers” quote…but, y’know, maybe it’s just because this one’s a little less quoted, but it actually makes me laugh harder. “Mommie Dearest” is the story of Christina Crawford, a little girl adopted by actress Joan Crawford. Did Joan adopt Christina because she wanted children but couldn’t have any of her own, or was it more because it would help her image in the press if she could be looked…

It’s not like there haven’t been many neighborhoods that have seemingly been populated with nothing but celebrities…or maybe that’s just the perception of everyone who doesn’t live in Hollywood or New York City. I don’t know about you, but based on everything I’ve learned from television and movies, if you live in either of those two cities, you invariably have someone famous living in your building, next door to your house, or, at the very least, their car breaks down within walking distance of your place. In truth, it’s probably not really like that all…well, unless you lived in Laurel…

Just about everyone enjoys a good ensemble action picture, especially when the camaraderie is believable. In the case of “The Dirty Dozen,” there isn’t any camaraderie – virtually every character in the film is a misfit and proud of it – and, yet, it’s probably one of the best entries in the genre. Lee Marvin is Major John Reisman, a not-entirely-by-the-book Army officer during World War II who’s “offered” a new assignment: to train twelve of the most deplorable guys in the Army stockade and make them into a top-notch fighting force. The “Dirty Dozen” – so called because, after…

First, Henry Rollins fronted one of the seminal American punk bands, Black Flag. Then he built a reputation for his spoken-word tours even as he kept rockin’ with the Rollins Band. He’s even found time to do a few acting gigs here and there, easing his way into television with “Henry’s Film Corner,” on the Independent Film Channel, a show which has now evolved into a less film-specific series called, quite simply, “The Henry Rollins Show.” In the midst of a seemingly non-stop series of interviews, Rollins chatted for a few minutes with Bullz-Eye about the new show, the return…

Some of you young punks might think you’re too cool to appreciate a musical, but let me tell you right now: no one’s cool enough to blow off a movie starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. Not you, not me…nobody. “Guys and Dolls,” like so many musical of the ‘40s and ‘50s, was adapted from a Broadway production; it was written by Frank Loesser, who later composed “How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying” (and, earlier in his career, had already earned eternal fame by writing the oft-covered romantic standard, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”). Loesser’s source material, however, was…

“I hate every ape I see / From chimpan-“A” to chimpanzee / No, you’ll never make a monkey out of me / Oh, my God, I was wrong / It was Earth all along / You’ve finally made a monkey / Yes, you’ve finally made a monkey out of me!” – Troy McClure, “Stop the Planet of the Apes, I Want To Get Off! The wonder and spectacle of the original “Planet of the Apes” franchise is one that’s so permanently embedded in the world consciousness that not even Tim Burton’s crappy 2001 remake of the original film can kill…

As a Bangle, Susanna Hoffs scaled the heights of the charts during the ‘80s with songs like “Manic Monday,” “Walk Like An Egyptian,” “Hazy Shade of Winter,” and “Eternal Flame.” Matthew Sweet, meanwhile, became the poster boy for 1990s power pop with classic albums like Girlfriend and 100% Fun. In 2005, however, they’ve teamed up and recorded an album’s worth (and then some) of their favorite ‘60s covers, with a token early ‘70s Bee Gees song for good measure, for Shout! Factory. In a conference call, Bullz-Eye spoke with Sweet and Hoffs during their preparations for a few live dates.…

Author James Robert Parish, not to be mistaken for Robert James Waller, who wrote “The Bridges of Madison County,” has been called a Hollywood insider and a veteran entertainment observer. He’s written more books that you’d probably want to count, but his subjects have ranged from Jason Biggs to Katherine Hepburn (and the distance between those two is a wide chasm, indeed), and he’s carved a niche for himself with an ongoing series called “The Hollywood Book of…,” where’s he’s tackled death, love, and scandal. He sat down with Bullz-Eye for an extended chat about the contents of his newest…

As I watched the unfolding events of “Civic Duty,” where an average American finds himself so caught up in the barrage of information about how to prevent a terrorist attack that he convinces himself that his new, Middle-Eastern-looking neighbor is actually a terrorist, I couldn’t help but think of my friend Adil. Adil is now an American citizen, but he’s originally from Morocco; he’s an intelligent, well-educated Muslim man who speaks several different languages and has a great sense of humor. (I am assured that the French language track of “South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut” is much funnier than the…

With the first three “Scary Movie” films each having scored significant box office success, you’d have to have been pretty naïve to presume that there wouldn’t be a fourth one at some point. And, therefore, submitted for your approval is “Scary Movie 4,” which treads approximately the same lowbrow comedy water as its predecessors. What started as a way of parodying the “Scream” films (themselves ostensibly a parody of the horror genre to begin with) has evolved into a franchise which takes shots at pretty much any movie it wants, from “Million Dollar Baby” to “Brokeback Mountain.” Unfortunately, everyone and…