Monday movie news tidbits: wimpy American actors, putting the tits back in ‘Titanic,’ more
Also: M. Night Shyamalan gets deified, ‘Battle Royale’ gets ripped off
Month: July 2006
A Scanner Darkly (review)
Oh, yes, the evil cleverness, the deep and seriously profound wit of casting Keanu Reeves, with his melancholy insolence that everyone mistakes for lethargy, with his irony so deadpan it goes all the way back around to something like calculated self-parody. Reeves, iconic for once taking a red pill (or was it a blue pill?) as a path to the truth…
Friday movie news tidbits: Werner Herzog’s upcoming SF/F flick, smackdown of critics’ smackdown of ‘Pirates,’ more
Also: Bryan Singer geeks out with ‘Superman’; will Westerns take over TV?
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (review)
Is it ‘The Empire Strikes Back’ or ‘Highlander 2: The Quickening’?
Thursday movie news tidbits: Orlando Bloom officially nice, Chinese censors officially dumb, more
Also: new Academy members, DVD slowdown
Wordplay (review)
Word nerds strike again.
Wednesday movie news tidbits: unathorized Joss Whedon, boring Beowulf, more
Plus Scanner Darkly news and Snakes of a Blog goes, well, snakey.
new on DVD: ‘The Matador,’ ‘The Libertine,’ more
What to watch on DVD this week…
Tuesday movie news tidbits: Johnny Depp in ’21 Jump Street: The Movie,’ MPAA rating for Jesus, more
Plus: Ray Harryhausen, Lord of the Rings
Doctor Who: The Complete First Season (review)
This is one of the most astonishing reimaginings of an old TV show ever to grace our screens
