The Box Review
It's tempting to say that writer-director Richard Kelly's The Box isn't a great film and be done with it, as if that were all there were to discuss, but that would miss the larger point of Kelly's existence: He isn't setting out to make great films, but interesting ones that also try to be good, and their quality is derived precisely from the fact that they're often so confounding, so aloof, so willing to remain unsolved. That's not to say The Box sacrifices force for aim. It may not be a great film, but it's certainly a good one. It's a speedy and wonderfully claustrophobic thriller, one that calls to mind the suspense-filled potboilers of a bygone era as well as the work

Will Smith Signs onto Flowers for Algernon
Two-time Academy Award nominee, Will Smith, may have found the project that will finally win him that elusive Oscar. According to our inside source, The Hollywood Cog, Smith is set to produce and star in Flowers for Algernon, a modern-day adaptation of the Daniel Keyes' novel. The movie is being set up at Sony Pictures and Smith's production company, Overbrook Entertainment, along with Polksy Films. Tracy Nyberg, an associate producer on Hancock and an assistant to Will Smith on I Am Legend, is also set to produce. Flowers for Algernon has been adapted several times since it was originally published in 1959, most famously Ralph Nelson's Charly,

Jake Gylenhaal Signs to Duncan Jones' Source Code
Before we get on to this bit of news, a short site note: Thanks in large part to the efforts of Cindy and her awesome programmer husband, who spent much of their weekend knee-deep in Pajiba's source code, the commenting issue, finally, has been resolved. There are no more 60 - 90 second waits while the page reloads after a comment. It's a much more manageable 3 - 5 second wait. Go ahead: Give it a shot. It's a huge deal to frequent commenters of the site, I suspect, who have long been frustrated with the page hangs. So, big, huge motherfucking props to those two and to the Pajiba community, once again, for helping a brother out. And now, the news: Not too many f

Promo Video for SyFy's "Alice"
As many of you know, Tim Burton is working on his version of Alice in Wonderland, which is currently slated to drop in March. As Dustin said about it after the teaser trailer came out over the summer: "It looks pretty much exactly as you'd imagine an Alice in Wonderland adaptation from Tim Burton might, and Johnny Depp kicks some rabbit hole ass." Well SyFy has its own adaptation of Lewis Carroll's masterpiece coming out next month, and to paraphrase Dustin: "It looks pretty much exactly as you'd imagine a cheesy Alice in Wonderland adaptation from the channel formerly known as SciFi might."

Box Office Results 11/09/09
Not to get all Jeff Foxworthy on y'all, but you know it's awards season when ... people turn out in record numbers to spend two hours alongside an obese and abused Harlem teen who's pregnant with her second child by a father who happens to be her own. Things get a bit more dire from there, but there's a reason that Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire is on the brink of contention -- it's chock full of impressive performances (if undermined by flashy direction), not the least of which comes from Mo'Nique as Precious' relentlessly wicked mother. (Yes, THAT Mo'Nique.) Precious is also on the brink of box office success, drawing in a whopping $1.8 milli