Chris O’Donnell (NCIS: L.A.), Tony Roberts, and Arrested Development

Land of Punt’s new favorite show is getting a new character. NCIS: Los Angeles has cast Monet Mazu to play Callen’s (Chris O’Donnell) love interest. Mazu will play Natalie Buccola, a secret service agent who becomes smitten with the mysterious Callen. Poor LL Cool J, always the bridesmaid. Buccola will make her first appearance in [...]

Inglorious Basterds & Hollywood’s Love Affair With Hitler

Hollywood loves Hitler. They love to use him as a villain and as well they should. He was an evil man. Hitler and his Nazi’s are THE perfect plot device. Their evil needs no pesky back story and their defeat invokes zero criticism, at least none from respectable sources. In 2008. Hollywood gave us the [...]

District 9… District 9… District 9…

Every time a television presenter introduces District 9 they mention it’s a low budget film. If District 9 is low budget than Hollywood has morals. Apparently, low budget is a relative term. District 9 proves that you don’t need an obscene amount of money or bloated A-list celebrities to make a great movie. All you [...]

G.I Joe: Rise Of Cobra Is One Big Live Action Cartoon (Movie Review)

Lights! Camera! Draw! G.I Joe: Rise Of Cobra is one big live action cartoon replete a brooding Channing Tatum. It is the closet 1:1 adaptation of a cartoon Hollywood has ever made. In fact, there was probably more animation, in terms of CGI animation, in G.I Joe: Rise Of Cobra then there was in all [...]

John Hughes Has Died (1950 – 2009)

They may not have been high art or featured ground breaking special effects, but if you were a teenager in the late 1980’s, his films were a huge part of your life. Film director John Hughes is dead. He went into cardiac arrest while taking his morning walk. He was just 59-years old. Hughes is [...]

G.I. Joe Won’t Be Shown To Critics

Paramount Pictures isn’t screening G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra to critics. This usually indicates the film is awful. The movie studio showed the flick to “select” writers. This usually indicates they’ve shown the film to a group people they know will like it. Instead the studio says they are “aiming the movie at the [...]

Brüno: The Feel Good Family Comedy of Summer

Land of Punt thought Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan was the greatest comedy of all-time. Then again we’ve only seen two comedies, Captain Ron and The Gods Must Be Crazy II. The man behind the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, [...]

Year One… Too Many

Land of Punt has never seen a movie that was as flat as Year One. The Biblical spoof starring Jack Black and Michael Cera, and directed by Harold Ramis, looks and feels like it was actually made in Year One. For three people, four if you include producer Judd Apatow, who’ve been apart of so [...]

Academy Doubles Best Picture Nominees

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced today an increase in the number of movies nominated for Best Picture. The number was five but starting this year the Academy will nominate ten films. Oscar nominations will be announced February 2nd, 2010. The 82nd Academy Awards will be held March 7th. The Academy used [...]

Deep Throat and the FBI: “Bow Chicka Bow Wow”

When Land of Punt saw the headline, “FBI files show wide `Deep Throat’ investigation” we immediately had an image of the headline writer’s wide grin over getting the word “wide” pass her editor. Then we thought this headline must be in reference to W. Mark Felt, the Watergate informant who used the alias “Deep Throat” [...]