Peter Weller News

There are occasional reminders why, amidst all the bullshit that flies in my profession these days, I still write about movies.

The entire N.Y.P.D. appears to be on the take, but any incipient paranoia gets worked off in sweaty, hard-breathing, thoroughly preposterous action scenes.

Share + Aug 28, 2009 12:00 pm US/Central Stars of the art and counterculture world are gathering in the Wicker Park neighborhood Friday evening for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the epochal novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.

PITY THE FOOL who misses the French troupe Ilotopie's big splash on the lake, Fous de Bassin .

When your brother makes you watch it as a kid, Buckaroo Banzai will seem bizarre yet enthralling; watch it again when you're nearing 30 and you've got to ask, "What in the world were they smoking when they made this and why haven't the hippie kids at the University of Oregon tried to legalize it yet?" Neurosurgeon/inventor/martial artist/comic book ...

Actor Peter Weller, poets John Giorno and Anne Waldman, and performance artist Penny Arcade are among the notables scheduled to appear Friday, August 28, at Thinkart Salon to mark the 50th anniversary of William S. Burroughs's landmark novel Naked Lunch .

Free Movies) This light work from Steven Spielberg is based on the true story of Frank Abagnale, who in the 1960s fooled people into thinking he was a pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, all before he was out of his teens.

Good morning. Today is the 175th day of the year. It is the birth anniversary of Henry Ward Beecher, famous American clergyman, abolitionist and orator.

The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Neptune, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Mars and Uranus.

Though I am pretty much one silvery-blue beehive away from becoming EW's resident Krazy Kat Lady -- I was recently spotted in the office cooing idiotically with a colleague over a coffee table book about the world's most adorable cats -- I had never seen Animal Planet's Housecat Housecall until its second season premiere yesterday morning.

The week in geek: Should Total Recall get a total makeover? The all-action Total Recall, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, was the most commercial of Philip K Dick's big-screen adaptations, so it should be no surprise that Hollywood sees gold in them Martian hills again Total Recall a Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone in the 1990 original.

Peter Weller stars in this urban sci-fi Western as Murphy, a good cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine.