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Oh my god! Guillermo del Toro is going to direct The Hobbit! Which means we only have to wait a couple of years till we get more Lord of the Rings. I’m starting holding my breath… now! Oh, okay, in the meantime, we’ve got some Tolkienesque knockoffs to keep us busy. Like the new Chronicles … more…
There’s a wonderful valentine to New York City in Sunday’s Irish Independent, in which writer Donal Lynch makes love to my town: New York is the only place in the world that is exactly like it is in the movies. London, on the silver screen, is always too prissily posh and old-world English, Paris is … more…
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From IMDB, in its short entirety because it’s so good: MPAA Chief Concedes: Pirates Also Go To The Movies The head of the Motion Picture Association of America, an organization that some Internet users have accused of using legal strongarm tactics to prevent them from downloading recent movies from the Web, has acknowledged that the … more…
Iron Man rocks. I’ll have a full review later in the week, but that’s it in a nutshell. Right now, I just want to give you an anti spoiler. Despite rumors to the contrary that have had fanboys drooling for months, Samuel L. Jackson does not appear as Nick Fury here (though a nascent S.H.I.E.L.D. … more…
A little slice of genuine Americana (watch for the “organically grown catfish”): (Technorati tags: Single Seed)
I’m off to see Iron Man [opens May 2] in a little bit. Even as a non-comic-book reader, I don’t know that much about the character, certainly not as much as I know about Superman or Batman, I guess mostly because there never was an Iron Man TV show or movie when I was a … more…
I swear to Christ, if I didn’t know better, I’d have thought that a movie with a title like Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay had to be a laugh-till-you-cry joke out of The Onion, or maybe a bit of snarking against stupid from Idiocracy. Turns out it’s a real movie… one that people … more…
I’ve been running myself ragged — but not too ragged, since I promised myself I wouldn’t make myself completely crazy — at the Tribeca Film Festival over the last few days, and that will continue through Thursday. I’m seeing some very interesting films (and missing more that I’m sure are also fascinating), and I’ll have … more…
It’s unembeddable and it’ll probably disappear soon, but if you can stand some minor spoilers (like about which baddie will be making the Doctor’s Christmas 2008 a whole lot of no fun), click over to You Tube for some fan-shot video of a location shoot for Doctor Who. (They gotta get this stuff in the … more…
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