Questions prompted by this trailer for an upcoming movie:1) When did Russell Crowe morph into John Larroquette?2) Sometimes DiCaprio seems to be doing some kind of accent ("How the hell you expect me to run an operation when you runnin' a sahd operation?"), sometimes not. Is this a character choice, or really bad acting?3) Speaking of bad acting, whose accent is Crowe channeling--Foghorn Leghorn's...

Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper have apparently walked away from their syndicated series At The Movies With Ebert And Roeper. Though cursed with a cumbersome and inaccurate name (Ebert hasn't been on the show for years due to ongoing health issues), the show represented the final gasp of anything even resembling intelligent film criticism on television.Admittedly, that resemblance in recent years ha...

In its review of the new Broadway musical [title of show], The New York Times quotes this line of dialogue: when asked what he's doing, one character responds, "Working on a web site for a client and listening to Henry, Sweet Henry. What are you doing?"If you get that reference, The Times suggests, you're the type of "drama queen" the show is aimed at. In other words, you're gay.Well, I got it. Hen...

Making up for yesterday's festival of bad acting, here are two of the greatest, Sterling Hayden and Peter Sellers, in a classic scene from Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Kubrick is easily my all-time favorite filmmaker, and Sellers my favorite actor, bar none. Strangelove, oddly enough, isn't my favorite work from either man--though of course, Sellers gives three separate, equally brilliant com...

Summing up: weekends around here have turned into an outpost for clip jobs. For awhile there, that meant posting stuff that was actually good, more recently it's turned into a celebration of bad music.Today we break that precedent! No bad music. Instead--bad acting!Two classic examples today (and oddly, neither one involves Shatner), starting with the hilarious final scene from the 1966 campfest Th...