Posted by: Mike on Jun 8th, 2010

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Are you still out there reading this?  It’s evident that we’re not still in here writing it, that’s for sure.

Thanks for keeping coming back, even though we haven’t written anything in almost a year. We’re terrible people, we know.

I’ve got some renewed inspiration here, and feel like getting back into the swing of things.  I’ll be updating the site more frequently in the upcoming weeks, and hope to get some of you involved in things at MovieSnobs.  It’ll take a while to get back into the swing of things, but hopefully we can get back to where we used to be.

Thanks again for visiting.  If you haven’t already, be sure to sign up for the RSS feed, so you’ll know when we update things. If you don’t use an RSS reader, you can use the E-mail signup box on the right of any page to get daily e-mail updates, powered by FeedBurner.

Posted by: Mike on Jun 21st, 2009

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Some of you may have come to the site yesterday, and saw a post from “Kerri”, and thought “Who the hell is Kerri?”

Kerri is the newest addition to the MovieSnobs team.  She recently accepted a position as a staff writer for us.  She’ll be covering the usual gammit of MovieSnobs related things; reviewing movies, writing about news, and pretty much anything else we ask her to write about.

Give her a warm welcome, and if you want to be her friend just tell her you like Fox’s “Dollhouse.” You’ll be good for life.

Posted by: Mike on May 7th, 2009

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Like seeing movies? Like telling your friends how good (or bad!) that recent box office hit was? MovieSnobs.net may be your new home on the web.

We’re looking for some new, and talented, writers to join our staff.

Working for us is simple. Just see movies, write reviews of them, and write about anything movie related for the site. And we’ll pay you. It can’t be much more simple than that!

All you need is the ability to write well, meet deadlines, and follow through on your word.

What are the benefits? Glad you asked. For starters, we’ll pay you to see movies. If that’s not cool enough, we get quite a few sneak preview passes to see movies before they come out, and we often get DVDs sent to us from various mainstream and independent studios (that we’ll send to you, to check out). On top of that, you get to verbally abuse movies you hate, or praise movies you love. On the internet. For hundreds of thousands of people to read every year. What more can you ask for?

Interested? Hop on over to our Staff Application and fill it out. We’ll get back to you if we’re interested, with all the details. If you know someone who might be interested, feel free to pass this along to them.

Posted by: Mike on May 3rd, 2009

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Hey everyone,  over the last 48 hours, we’ve spent a good portion of that time working on releasing some improvements to the site that I’ve put together over the last two weeks.

Some new (and improved) features that you’ll want to look for:

• Registration is now open – we’ve opened up registration to anyone who wants to register.  We’ll be doing random give-aways for our top commenters, so be sure to signup and login, to keep track of your comments.
• Facebook Connect – Have a Facebook profile, but don’t want to sign up here? You don’t have to, just click the “Connect” button in the login box on the right, and we’ll do the registration part for you, automatically.  Anytime you visit the site, logged into Facebook, you’ll be logged in here, like magic.
• Publish comment/story to Facebook – When you comment on a post, and you’re “connected” to Facebook, you can share the story right on Facebook, with one simple click.
• Review pages have moved – we moved all of our reviews into a new format. No more trying to remember the URL (moviesnobs.net/review.php?movieid=xxx), now they’re simple.  ie; moviesnobs.net/twilight-review.
• Same goes for cast members – all cast member pages are simple now, too. No more cast.php?actorid= nonsense.  Just moviesnobs.net/firstname-lastname.  Simple!
• Reviews and cast pages now can be commented on – We decided to open up the reviews and cast member pages to be commented on.  Over the last four years, we’ve gotten a lot of e-mail from people who wanted to be able to discuss a review we’ve put up.  Now, you can.
• Reviews and Cast are now in our RSS feed.  For years we didn’t have the technology to put the reviews or cast into the RSS feed.  No more!
• Archives streamlined – no more useless sorting by who wrote it, or how many stars we gave it. Now the archives are simple: news items, reviews, and cast members. All on one page.
• Search improved – Frustrated you couldn’t find what you were looking for?  The search results are now smarter, and give you results based on relevance. (I’m still tweaking this, so if it’s not perfect, don’t hate me.)

Not bad for a weekend’s worth of work.  We spent hours last night redirecting all the old URLs to the new ones, so if something doesn’t work, please comment on this post, so we’ll know about it, and fix it.

Thanks to everyone who continues to visit our site.  Without your eyeballs reading this site, we’d have no reason to continue doing it.

Posted by: Mike on Feb 24th, 2009

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It looks like Michel Gondry is back in control of the directorial reigns for The Green Hornet, still starring Seth Rogen and Stephen Chow.

The Hollywood Reporter reports

Stephen Chow had been tapped to direct but dropped out over creative differences. He is still expected to co-star as Kato, the Hornet’s trusty sidekick and chauffeur.

Since Chow’s departure, the project has been the subject of speculation that it was sliding into development hell, but the studio is intent on making the feature one of its 2010 tentpoles.

The choice of Gondry, the helmer behind off-the-beaten-path films such as “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” “The Science of Sleep” and “Be Kind Rewind,” signals that the creative direction the studio and the film’s producer, Neal Moritz, are trying to take the project is one not usually associated with the usual crime-fighter movie.

Looks like the movie will move forward. After seeing Seth Rogen at the Oscars the other night, it’s pretty evident that he’s lost a lot of weight and really got in shape in anticipation for this film role.  I, for one, hope it gets made, and gets made well.

Posted by: Mike on Feb 24th, 2009

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Since all our posts from yesterday were deleted (and yes, I’m too lazy to repost them all), here’s a quick rundown of what’s happened so far this week.

• Emily Blunt is off Iron Man 2, due to conflicting schedules.
• Kevin Williamson is writing the script for Scream 4, and so far the rumors are ridiculous surrounding it.
• Fieda Pinto and Naomi Watts have joined Woody Allen’s next movie, along with Josh Brolin and Anthony Hopkins (announced two weeks ago.)
• “Melrose Place” remake has been green lit.
• John Cusack And Rob Corddry join The Hot Tub Machine
• Amanda Seyfried joins Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch
• Ghostbusters 3 will likely film later this year.

That about sums it up, and brings you up to date.  Sorry all those posts got nuked.  Silly hosts.

Posted by: Mike on Feb 24th, 2009

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For those that came to the site this morning, and wondered why the posts were from February 2008, ask our wonderfully terrible web host.  They seem to have messed things up late last night.

I fixed everything now, and we should be good to go, until next time.  Sorry about that.

Posted by: Mike on Feb 22nd, 2009

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Best Supporting Actress:
Winner: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Amy Adams, Doubt
Viola Davis, Doubt
Taraji P. Henson, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Marisa Tomei, The Wrestler

Best Original Screenplay:
Winner: Milk, Dustin Lance Black
Frozen River, Courtney Hunt
Happy-Go-Lucky, Mike Leigh
In Bruges, Martin McDonagh
WALL-E, Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Pete Docter

Adapted Screenplay:
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire, Simon Beaufoy
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Eric Roth
Doubt, John Patrick Shanley
Frost/Nixon, Peter Morgan
The Reader, David Hare

Best Animated Feature:
Winner:Wall-E
Bolt
Kung Fu Panda

Best Animated Short Film:
Winner: La Maison en Petits Cubes
Lavatory – Lovestory
Oktapodi
Presto
This Way Up

Best Art Direction:
Winner:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Changeling
The Dark Knight
The Duchess
Revolutionary Road

Best Costume Design:
Winner: The Duchess
Australia
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Milk
Revolutionary Road

Best Makeup:
Winner:The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Best Cinematography:
Winner:Slumdog Millionaire
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Reader

Live Action Short:
Winner: Spielzeugland (Toyland)
Auf de Strecke (On the Line)
Manon on the Asphalt
New Boy
The Pig

Supporting Actor
Winner: Heath Ledger, The Dark Knight
Josh Brolin, Milk
Robert Downey, Jr., Tropic Thunder
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Doubt
Michael Shannon, Revolutionary Road

Documentary Feature
Winner: Man on Wire
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Encounters at the End of the World
The Garden
Trouble the Water

Documentary Short:
Winner: Smile Pinki
The Conscience of Nhem En
The Final Inch
The Witness – Fromt he Balcony of Room 306

Visual Effects:
Winner: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Iron Man

Sound Editing:
Winner: The Dark Knight
Iron Man
Slumdog Millionaire
WALL-E
Wanted

Sound Mixing:
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
WALL-E
Wanted

Editing:
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Frost/Nixon
Milk

Original Score:
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire, A.R. Rahman
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Alexandre Desplat
Defiance, James Newton Howard
Milk, Danny Elfman
WALL-E, Thomas Newman

Original Song:
Winner:”Jai Ho,” Slumdog Millionaire
“Down to Earth,” WALL-E
“O Saya,” Slumdog Millionaire

Foreign Language Film:
Winner: Departures, Japan
The Baader Meinhof Complex, Germany
The Class, France
Revanche, Australia
Waltz with Bashir, Israel

Best Director:
Winner: Danny Boyle, Slumdog Millionaire
Stephen Daldry, The Reader
David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Ron Howard, Frost/Nixon
Gus Van Sant, Milk

Best Actress:
Winner: Kate Winslet, The Reader
Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married
Angelina Jolie, Changeling
Melissa Leo, Frozen River
Meryl Streep, Doubt

Best Actor:
Winner: Sean Penn, Milk
Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
Frank Langella, Frost/Nixon
Brad Pitt, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Mickey Rourke, The Wrestler

Best Picture:
Winner: Slumdog Millionaire
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Frost/Nixon
Milk
The Reader