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It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week I’m stretching the theme a bit to include the classic 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, which exerted a profound effect on the mindset of Generation X via its constant airings on TV in the … more…
The only bell *Wagon Train* rings for me is its role in the story of how Gene Roddenberry first pitched *Star Trek* to NBC — he now famously said that it would be “*Wagon Train* to the stars.” Which I never quite understood.
I’m busy chopping veggies and making stuffing right now, so no Pushing Daisies blogging today. I’ll write about last night’s episode late tonight or early tomorrow. For all my readers in the U.S., Happy Thanksgiving! Everyone else: Happy Thursday!
Take a break from work (or turkey): watch a movie trailer… (Or, the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince trailer at Yahoo! Movies: bigger, crisper, clearer.) We should be actually seeing this movie this weekend — instead, we have to settle for a new trailer. I’m relieved to see are few light moments in this … more…
Hate ta tell ya, but you’re not gonna be wakin’ up, little turkey dude. (Funny renditions of “New York, New York” always crack me up…)
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Ah, romance! Nazis! History! Books! Swimming as a representation of innocence! An Oscar-nominated cast! The Reader opens limited in the U.S. on December 10, and wide on January 9, 2009; it opens in the U.K. on January 2, 2009.
It’s still all about James Bond at the British box office: 1. Quantum of Solace: £2.9 million (4th week; drops 44%) 2. Body of Lies: £.99 million (NEW) 3. My Best Friend’s Girl: £.91 million (NEW) 4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: £.6 million (5th week; drops 38%) 5. Zack and Miri Make a … more…
What I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving eve: that Sarah Palin is not going to be our vice president in a few months, and that people who think like this has been repudiated: This is not, by the way, a joke: these folks are completely serious. (Hat tip to my friend and fellow film critic Dan … more…
Brad and Kate are perfectly, deliriously happy with their unmarried, child-free existence, so naturally this cannot be allowed to stand.
If director Baz Luhrmann had decided to shoot in black-and-white, you’d hardly be able to tell this wasn’t made around 1939 or so. Sure, all those gorgeous helicopter shots of the wild and dangerous and beautiful Outback would be a dead giveaway, so they’d have to go. But otherwise…
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