Paranoia

An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.

Sexy Nurse

The Wolf of Wall Street

Based on the true story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stockbroker living the high life to his fall involving crime, corruption and the federal government.

The Colony

Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.

The Last House on the Left

After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang led by a prison escapee unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging the parents of one of the victims -- a mother and father who devise an increasingly gruesome series of revenge tactics.

(Still) Not Unlikely

Two years ago I whipped up the fake poster on your right as a gag for late-night Twitter. Chuckles were had, then I and everyone else on Earth forgot about it.

Then today, a funny thing happened on The Internet: Deadline reported that someone at Warner Bros. had decided to actually go an make this movie: A 20 years later sequel to "SPACE JAM" - a movie adapted from a sneaker ad-campaign about Michael Jordan playing basketball with The Looney Tunes which, in an act of singular strangeness, actually tries to be a semi-dramatic "What If?" take on Jordan's return to the NBA following his shocking 1993 retirement to play minor-league baseball in reaction to the murder of his father (the film essentially posits that battling aliens alongside Bugs Bunny was the push Jordan needed to rekindle his lost passion for basketball) - with LeBron James (presumably) becoming the new human leader of The ToonStars.

And then Twitter. Went. APESHIT.
Well, LeBron's people have already denied it - so it's probably not real. But the sudden explosion of excitement on social media means it probably could be in the near future. It would not surprise me if Warner Bros. were looking to "reboot" the "SPACE JAM" branding (say, maybe a cartoon-basketball movie without a human guest star) as a way to turn the Looney Tunes mega-marketable again and floated this "leak" as a way to do test the waters. If so, consider that test a success - it seems pretty goddamn clear that if Warners was to release "SPACE JAM 2" in the near future, they'd have the attention of more starry-eyed 90s Kids than a Buzzfeed click-gallery of cats belonging to the rediscovered castmembers of "HEY DUDE!" reacting a Power Rangers reunion.

"SPACE JAM" is one of those movies that works as a cultural dividing-line between Gen-Xers and Millenials. In my own circles, it's really only ever spoken of as a relic of that moment where Jordan probably could've run for President and as the low-point symbol of how Warner Bros. had gutted and drained Bugs and company of their original personalities to become empty marketing vessels. But there's a younger audience for whom this was an unironic VHS touchstone - nothing makes me feel older than running into people who remember it as a good movie... except maybe when those same people are surprised to learn that "the baseball thing" actually happened.

To be honest, the only part of this I could actually not imagine really happening is LeBron being in it. Unlike MJ, he's largely failed to parlay his on the court success into the same kind of self-marketing machine. Jordan was, at the time, every bit as much of a cartoon-character (off the court) as the ToonStars were, which is why the movie worked. If they did do another one of these, I'd expect it to be just the cartoons - maybe rangle Jordan for a cameo, since he really will do just about anything.

Escape to The Movies: "POMPEII"

Blows.

On the higher-end, I interviewed writer Inkoo Kang about her controversial criticisms of Hayo Miyazaki's "THE WIND RISES."

The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Pompeii