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Borderlands trailer: Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis star in Eli Roth video game movie

Posted 2 years ago

A trailer has been unveiled for the long-awaited video game adaptation Borderlands, directed by Eli Roth and starring Cate Blanchett

Borderlands: Claptrap image announces that filming has wrapped

Posted 5 years ago

Principal photography on director Eli Roth's adaptation of the Borderlands video game series has wrapped, and we know this because the official Borderlands Twitter account celebrated the end of filming by posting a picture of the robot Claptrap: Claptrap really wanted...

Eli Roth’s Borderlands: Penn Jillette signs on for a small role

Posted 5 years ago

In the 2019 video game Borderlands 3 (pick up a copy HERE), there were a pair of bandits called Pain and Terror, who were based on the comedy / magician duo Penn and Teller. So now that director Eli Roth...

Johnny Depp talks acting with an earpiece & carpet bombing Pakistan with LSD

Posted 8 years ago

How about that Johnny Depp, huh? What will he get up to next? Your guess is as good as mine, though a recent interview with Rolling Stone certainly does a fine job of exploring the unique grey matter of one of...

Steve Pink to helm an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s The Curse of Lono

Posted 8 years ago

I was somewhere around London, Ontatio, when the news that HOT TUB TIME MACHINE director Steve Pink had signed on to helm an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's THE CURSE OF LONO began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I...

Why It Works: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Posted 9 years ago

Why It Works is an ongoing column which breaks down some of the most acclaimed films in history and explores what makes them so iconic, groundbreaking, and memorable. ****SPOILERS AHEAD**** When it comes to playing by the rules of conventional...

Teller and Gilbert Gottfried grace these new clips from Director’s Cut

Posted 10 years ago

DIRECTOR'S CUT, from director Adam Rifkin and writer Penn Jillette sounds like a truly deranged film, and probably the best horror flick to star a magician since TERROR TRAIN. Two new clips have surfaced, the first featuring everyone's favorite impression, Gilbert...

Penn Jillette and Adam Rifkin deliver a deadly Director’s Cut

Posted 10 years ago

Writer/magician/comedian/Bullsh*t exposer Penn Jillette has teamed with Adam Rifkin, the director of such films as THE DARK BACKWARD, THE CHASE, DETROIT ROCK CITY, a segment of CHILLERAMA, and (under the name Rif Coogan) PSYCHO COP RETURNS to make the horror/comedy DIRECTOR'S...