Jesse Giroux

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Favorite Movies: American Beauty/Psycho/Splendor/History X, 12 Monkeys, Schindler's List, About Schmidt, Fargo, Blazing read more Saddles, Bringing Out the Dead, Rushmore, Dark City, The Dark Knight, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Funny Games, God Bless America, High Fidelity, Igby Goes Down, L.A. Confidential, Leon, Magnolia, Memento, Shaun of the Dead, Se7en, Reservoir Dogs, Adaptation, There Will be Blood, Happiness, I Heart Huckabees, Grosse Pointe Blank, Frailty, The Vengeance Trilogy, In Bruges, Sunshine, Scanners, Team America, City of God, Four Lions, Requiem for a Dream, The Blues Brothers, The Road, Tae Gook Gi, Children of Men

Likes: Hunter S. Thompson, comics, Doonesbury, anything involving Graham Linehan and Charlie read more Brooker, people having nightmares after I've made them watch Jam, Beck, David Grohl, hard ciders, PT Anderson, Stephen King, Dylan Moran, Big Fat Quiz of the Year, cupcakes, The Boondocks, Andy Kaufman, Bill Murray

JFK assassination film ‘Parkland’ adds Rory Cochrane to its giant cast

Posted 14 years ago

The assassination of John F. Kennedy was an incredibly tragic event and I don’t think you can properly understand the impact it had on the people of America (and the rest of the world) unless you were alive during that...

Terence Stamp for Anchorman 2? Sequel to The Limey?

Posted 14 years ago

Recently in the UK there was a screening for SONG FOR MARION, the upcoming music-based drama by Paul Andrew Williams and staring Terence Stamp. There was a Q&A with Stamp that followed and in attendance was a reader for AICN...

Andrew Lau and Martin Scorsese collaborating for Revenge of the Green Dragons

Posted 14 years ago

One of the reasons I love and absorb movie knowledge is seeing the reaction people have about the bits of trivia I tell them. Not everyone knows that Will Smith turned down the part of Neo for THE MATRIX or...

Adaptation of the John Grisham novel The Racketeer being developed by Safe House’s Daniel Espinosa

Posted 14 years ago

Do you know it has been nine years since the last John Grisham adaptation? And it was CHRISTMAS WITH THE KRANKS? God does it make me feel old when I think back to the 90s and how it seemed like...

Could we see the return of Nightcrawler in X-Men: Days of Future Past?

Posted 14 years ago

Yesterday we had a report that Bryan Singer was open to the idea of Halle Berry returning as Storm for X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST. Who else is Singer possibly looking at to return? The Huffington Post interviewed Bryan Singer...

Paul Robeson biopic starring Homeland’s David Harewood snags Darrell Roodt to direct

Posted 14 years ago

Variety has some news on the Paul Robeson biographical film staring Homeland’s David Harewood. South African director Darrell Roodt has agreed to direct the film for Four Star International and Greg Carter of Nexus films. Some of his works include...

Weinstein Company picks up the rights to Blood Sisters, first adaptation from the “Vampire Academy” Series

Posted 14 years ago

If you’re a struggling writer trying to get published it may be in your best interest to start a young adult novel series. You don’t have to take any real time or effort, just throw a bunch of ideas together...

Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist to be re-imagined as a heist movie; Bookworms worldwide die a little inside

Posted 14 years ago

Ow…this hurts my brain… THR has news that Sony has a re-imagining of the Charles Dickens‘ novel Oliver Twist in the works called DODGE AND TWIST. The idea comes from Ahmet Zappa (yes they are related) and his company Monsterfoot...

Will we get a complete “Rewritten History” trilogy from Quentin Tarantino?

Posted 14 years ago

Quentin Tarantino, you could argue, is at the top of the film mountain right now. Not only have his last two films INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS and DJANGO UNCHAINED been critically acclaimed, but they have also pulled in tons of money. It’s...

C-Films wants us to go to the ‘Beach’ for disasters and laughs

Posted 14 years ago

Have you been sitting around wondering why there aren’t more comedies about environmental disasters? Me too. Lucky for us Variety is reporting that the Swiss based company C-Films has a new project called GLOBAL BEACH in the works. The satirical...

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