Keeping Up With Megan Fox
Keeping Up With Megan Fox
As a first-grader I know frequently informs me, there are four fundamental forces in the universe: the strong nuclear force, electromagnetism, the weak nuclear force and gravity. He doesn’t know about the fifth force, recently discovered and poorly understood, the…
What’s wrong with enjoying a campy teenage horror flick these days? Jennifer’s Body is the bastard child of great ’80s fare like Evil Dead, Night of the Creeps and The Howling and it’s a refreshing addition to all the sequels…
Diablo Cody, the now-celebrated ex-stripper who wrote “Juno,” is here at Toronto with “Jennifer’s Body,” starring Megan Fox, who of course has inspired paparazzi fever at the festival. It’s sort of a “Twilight” for boys, with Fox in the Robert…
Two years ago, screenwriter Diablo Cody made a huge splash with her big screen debut Juno, which was praised by critics, and was ultimately met with backlash by those who arrived on the backend of the hype. An Academy Award…
There’s a lot of baggage tied to Jennifer’s Body, but once past the initial apprehension of it being Diablo Cody’s follow up to Juno and media-saturated Megan Fox’s first major performance, it’s easier to take it for what it is:…
Well, the Diablo Cody mystique sure ended fast. After a clutch of awards including an Oscar for penning “Juno,” she is back in Toronto a scant two years later with “Jennifer’s Body.” A campy pastiche of horror and high-school movie…
Though clever and generally amusing, the horror-comedy Jennifer’s Body runs into problems on the fright front. Working from Diablo Cody’s first produced screenplay since her Oscar-winning script for Juno, director Karyn Kusama and star Megan Fox seem uncertain if they’re…
Some minor and major spoilers came out of a promotional Paramount UK screening today via TFW2005 and The Transformers Live Action Movie Blog. And I meant to only read the minor spoilers but god dammit I ended up reading the…
The biggest movie of the summer is finally here, but that’s the problem with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen – it’s just too bloody big. Epic, spectacular but unfortunately far, far too long; the film proves that when it comes…