Shorts is hitting theaters...

Two-years-ago Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were collaborating on the same project, Grind House.This weekend the two genius directors are fighting it out at the box-office each with his own project, Rodriguez with Shorts and Tarantino with Inglourious Basterds.
Warner Bros. created a mini fair for the premiere of Shorts in front of the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood and I was of course there... check it out...
http://www.hollywoodtelevision.tv/index-shorts.html

Spread with Ashton Kutcher

If you are looking for an alternative movie this weekend to District 9, check out Spread, starring and produced by Ashton Kutcher, about a guy in LA who is basically sleeping his way to the top and then karma come to bite him in the ass... Ashton looks great and does a really nice job in the flick...
Check out my premiere coverage for more about Spread.

World's Greatest Dad

Whenever anyone mentions the name Bobcat Goldthwait, the one thing coming to your mind is: MESHUGGINA (crazy in Yiddish for all you gentiles)... He's "Zed" from the Police Academy franchise (yes, I know I am dating myself for remembering) or the guy who lit up Jay Leno's couch in the middle of an interview... but yet he is also the guy who has written and directed this sensitive and touching new dark comedy, World's Greatest Dad, starring Oscar winner, Robin Williams.

The movie tells the story of Lance Clayton, a father who has to deal with the fact that his extremely unpleasant son has died under very auspicious circumstances. Now he is trying to make this death go down in vane, mean something to him and the world and unintentionally creates something way bigger than himself.

This is a well acted, witty written and directed in a very real-to-life yet sensitive way. It is a movie that deals with death but more importantly it is a social criticism about the state of our society and who would have believed that the crazy guy from Police Academy is behind all this...

I give it a definite thumbs up...