Get Smart

You might remember /Film reader Matt Shapiro’s video “2007: A Year for Drama”, which went viral last year. Well Matt has returned with a retrospective music video for 2008, titled 2008: The Cinescape. I could go on about how incredible this video is, or how many great films we’ve seen over the last year, but I just want you to watch it. I’ve already watched it 3 times now. Enjoy.
List of Movies (in order of appearance): -The Dark Knight -Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -Wall-e -Quantum of Solace -Iron Man -Defiance -Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull -Australia -Forgetting Sarah Marshall -Wall-e -The Curious Case of Benjamin -The Dark Knight -Frost/Nixon -Wall-e -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button -Slumdog Millionaire -Milk -Seven Pounds -Revolutionary Road -Pineapple Express -Speed Racer
Peter Sciretta

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Damn, I forgot the People's Choice Awards was last night. I missed the excitement as 27 Dresses was named the year's Favorite comedy. Not Tropic Thunder, mind you, or even In Bruges, Role Models, or Forgetting Sarah Marshall. No, that would've meant those films were nominated. And they weren't.
Mysteriously, even though Thunder outperformed 27 Dresses at the box office - the real people's choice - it wasn't even nominated over the very middling Katherine Heigl comedy. Its competition was Get Smart and Mamma Mia!, two other movies that significantly outworked it financially, which again, would be how people would normally vote for such a thing.
See, this is why the People's Choice Awards frustrates me. Well, this and Rascal Flatts being named Favorite Band. Ugh. Remind me not to let People's Choice voters make me a mix CD.
Colin Boyd

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Chicago – Andrew R. “Andy” Dick is one of the most brilliantly infamous and misunderstood comic forces in the last twenty years. Appearing at Superstation TBS “Just for Laughs” Festival in Chicago, he combined farce, music and pure Andy in his show.

Andy Dick is very, very calm in Chicago on June 19, 2009
Photo credit: Joe Arce of Starstruck Foto for HollywoodChicago.com During a rollicking interview with HollywoodChicago.com, Dick went over his career and philosophy, between bouts of singing Edie Brickell songs (”Where is she now?” he wondered, before speculating about her work on a part of Paul Simon’s anatomy).
HollywoodChicago.com: Your bio indicates that you moved around a lot as a kid. What area of the country most influenced your ever-evolving style of performance?
Andy Dick: Besides the first one, from Connecticut to Pennsylvania, which hurt and was emotionally jarring, the one that cracked my head
adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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