watch it: “The Keene Act & YOU (1977)”
More wonderfully fakey Watchmen stuff — a 1977 PSA about the anti-costumed-adventurer Keene Act:
Month: March 2009
question of the day: Is it fair to call ‘Watchmen’ director Zack Snyder “visionary”?
With no big stars with sellable names to splash across posters, Warner Bros. is counting on director Zack Snyder to sell Watchman to those who may not already be familiar with the comic. Warner Bros. isn’t using Snyder’s name, of course — because that isn’t any better known than those of the cast — but … more…
Stephen Colbert is on fire these days
I thought Stephen Colbert had reached a comedic peak recently with that “Swedish model/emulate-the-Vikings” word-of-the-day bit. But his Doom Bunker segment tonight had me actually doubled over with laughter. It’s nice to ache from comedy. It happens so rarely. If we thought that the advent of elegant, optimistic, at-least-publicly-nonsnarky Barack Obama — a Barack Obama … more…
trailer break: ‘Sunshine Cleaning’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’m seeing this tonight, and I just saw this trailer for the first time. It looks even more promising than I was expecting. I hate when that happens, because then I get my hopes up, which means they only have further to crash when I’m disappointed. I … more…
watch it: “Who Watches the Watchmen? – A Veidt Music Network (VMN) Special – 1983”
It’s fake 80s-riffic! It’s viral-orama! At least someone knows how to fake this stuff right. (More cool Watchmen promo stuff at The New Frontiersman.)
bias update
obsession: the plays of William Shakespeare (cuz he never goes out of style) boyfriend: Peter Davison in The Last Detective at the moment (but pretty much forever in anything) psyched: absolutely nothing (the next month or so is a movie wasteland) dreading: Knowing (see above about cinematic wastelands) enemy: everyone responsible for Fired Up! (for … more…
question of the day: How much will ‘Watchmen’ make over opening weekend?
Predicting box office numbers has not been something I’ve been keen to get into here, but I think this is a unique case. Whatever number we see for Watchmen come next Monday, it’s going to get spun. If the movie does phenomenally well — say, over $125 million — it’ll be seen as a vindication … more…
North American box office: ‘Madea’ smacks ‘Jonas Brothers’
This is bittersweet to me: the evangelical boy “rockers” lose out on the weekend of their movie debut, but that means Tyler Perry in a fatsuit gets to win again: 1. Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail: $16.2 million (2nd week; drops 61%) 2. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience: $12.5 million (NEW) 3. Slumdog … more…
London cinemas
Last batch of pix from my recent visit. A walk around the Leicester Square movie district, which is like Times Square doubled. (There are two big multiplexes in Times Square in New York, but four in Leicester Square, two of which are named Odeon.) And then there was this, the only other cinema I saw … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Bibleman Powersource: Blasting the Big Gamemaster Bully’
It’s too small to see in this image, but along the bottom reads: “An Action Packed Dramatic Adventure Based on God’s Word.” I could have gone my whole life without knowing this, but it turns out that Bibleman is a bona fide superhero, “a human transformed by the Word of God”: Bibleman appeals to parents … more…
