dream cast: hypothetical ‘Wizard of Oz’ remake

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…

no ‘Pushing Daisies’ blogging today

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!

trailer break: ‘The Reader’

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.

Australia (review)

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…