movie-ku #31
Eleven fifty Cost of a flick in New York No refunds given
Year: 2007
will Peter Berg direct a new ‘Dune’ movie?
The Net’s been abuzz about the possibilities for a couple of months, but now Ain’t It Cool News is sorta-kinda confirming the rumor — they’re calling it a “well-founded rumor” — that a new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune is in the works. We’ll now pause for a brief moment of shuddering from those … more…
Karl Urban to play Bones McCoy in new ‘Star Trek’ movie?
I thought I was happy when it was announced that Simon Pegg would play Scotty? Well, now Ain’t It Cool News is saying that Karl “Eomer” Urban will be playing Bones McCoy. Look, I would click my heels and jump for joy just to get a physical exam from this Doctor McCoy, never mind a … more…
recap of this week’s episode of ‘Heroes’
Check out my recap of the Heroes episode “The Kindness of Strangers,” which aired Monday night, over at Film.com. Comments welcome here.
movie-ku #30
How come 90 mins Can feel like three point five hours While epics breeze by?
my week at the movies: ‘Gone Baby Gone,’ ‘Music Within,’ ‘Holly,’ ‘The Darjeeling Limited,’ ‘Darfur Now,’ ‘Steep’
Ben Affleck has made a movie. And not just any old sort of movie, but a kind of take-that reaction to, oh, Clint Eastwood and his Mystic River. “What does a cowboy know about Boston?” could be the question Ben is asking with Gone, Baby, Gone [opens wide October 19]. Or maybe it’s just, “How … more…
movie-ku #29
In honor of truly indie filmmakers like Brian Flemming (whom I mentioned recently here): Digital dreaming Write a screenplay, buy a cam Discs sell cheap online
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Countrycide”
I’m probably in the minority on this, but I like that there turned out to be no psychopathic alien influence at work here. I like that ‘Torchwood’ isn’t pretending that you have to leave the planet or import creatures from outer space in order to find terrible things.
is ‘Michael Clayton’ too clever for its own good?
Overseen at the IMDB user forums for the film Michael Clayton (my review): But does it have to come off so smart? I feel it kind of alienates the common viewer. Yeah! Why don’t more movies pander to the idiot demographic? (Technorati tags: Michael Clayton)
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Christmas Invasion”
Maybe it seems silly, at first glance, to be discussing the David Tennant episodes in reverse order of season — I’ve just wrapped up the “Harold Saxon” arc, and here we are back in the “Torchwood” arc, Tennant’s first season and Billie Piper’s last. But I’m glad I did it this way, because if I’d done it the other way around…
