Michael Madsen has a new film out called HIRED GUN (Directed by Brad Jurjens). And when he agreed to sit down for an “offbeat” interview with me, I don’t think he realized that I was going to be joking around, trying to get a reaction out of him. In a nutshell, Madsen looses his cool.Please enjoy.

HIRED GUN available on netflix:

and amazon.com:

Picturing Senator Byrd surfing…  nude.

Happy Birthday and thanks for helping to warn Boston about the Brits.

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I give good beak.

John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Director Roland Emmerich participate in an open and candid forum about the potential end of the world, and their new film 2012. The meandering of the forum ushered in topics such as Vicodin, dehydrated food pills, Elephants, The Queen of England, boxes of humanity, Noah’s arc, and so forth. I attempt to convince Chiwetel Ejiofor that we share the same birthday, award nominations, and life history. I also attempt to convince Roland Emmerich that they’ve worked together before and are friends. Much to my chagrin, Emmerich remembers that they do not know each other…yet. Worth a watch.

Splinterheads releases today in NYC: premiere here and website here.

Splinterheads is easily one of the best films of the year. It’s funny, well written, and Thomas Middleditch, Rachel Taylor, and pretty much the entire cast deliver great performances.

Splinterheads is written and directed by Brant Serson, who’s done a magnificent job writing and directing. I was already a fan of his last film BLACKBALLED (with Rob Corddry, Paul Scheer, Rob Riggle, Ed Helms, Rob Heubel, Curtis Gwinn, and many more), and Splinterheads really resonated with me as well.

Serson has a unique ability to portray middle class slackers realistically. And that’s no easy feat. Most of Hollywood and many of the self-proclaimed Indy features I watch fail in depicting “regular” people. Not many folks can pull it off, but Serson succeeds. And it makes this film refreshingly fun to watch, funny, and authentic.

The story is about a twenty something slacker Justin Frost (played by Middleditch) that basically doesn’t do much of anything for a living beyond landscape architecting with his buddy Wayne (Jason Rogel). When he gets ripped off by a traveling carnival worker Galaxy (Rachel Taylor) he finds himself sucked into the carnival world through a series of random encounters, and he ends up falling for the girl and finding his world completely intertwined with the world and workers of the carnival, who call themselves the “Splinterheads”.

This is definitely a film more than worth seeing. Great story and great characters. Here’s the trailer:

British comic Nick Frost and Actor Tom Sturridge step into the world of Matt’s mind for a quick jaunt into the nether-regions of imaginative forestry. Watch as space is explored, teeth, spirits, African generals, joints, long hair, and boats.

Talulah Riley, one of the stars of the upcoming film PIRATE RADIO, sat down to have a chat with me about the various topics of the boat movie genre, humpty dumpty, all things transatlantic, and giving birth. Please enjoy.