watch it: “Premakes: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951)”
What if Raiders of the Lost Ark had been made in the 1950s? From the some wags who brought us the 1954 version of Ghostbusters…
Year: 2009
my week at the movies: ‘Gentlemen Broncos,’ ‘Michael Jackson’s This Is It,’ ‘Creation,’ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox,’ ‘The Fourth Kind,’ ‘Pirate Radio’ (aka ‘The Boat That Rocked’), ‘Collapse’
Busy, busy week. And awards season hasn’t quite hit yet (though screeners are starting to come). It’s gonna be a crazy couple months… Most hilarious title ever? Gentlemen Broncos (opens in the U.S. on October 30; no U.K. release date has been announced) looks to be a hoot… and I do really like Jared Hess’s … more…
trailer break: “The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith”
Take a break from work: watch a TV trailer… Aka, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Series 3, Episodes 5 and 6: And I still haven’t seen Series 2 yet. Like I’ll let that stop me from watching this one out of sequence, just for another taste of David Tennant’s Doctor. The Doctor really should steer clear … more…
question of the day: Will the Michael Jackson film ‘This Is It’ break box office records?
It seems a tad preposterous to me, but Moo! News is reporting that Sony expects beyond blockbuster performance for the Michael Jackson concert movie This Is It: Doug Belgrad, the production president for Sony, is confident that the sorrow from abroad over the death of the King of Pop will translate to enthusiasm for his … more…
42 Essential 3rd Act Twists
Awesome breakdown of storytelling clichés — many of which occur in films, of course — from cartoonist Dresden Codak. A tiny taste: The whole cartoon is here. Don’t be drinking anything while perusing it unless you want to ruin your keyboard. I especially like the categories of “Shyamalan” and “Double Shyamalan.” See also Codak’s newest … more…
it’s hip to have no hips…
…gay vampires are totally ruining everything for straight guys, help out a gal filmmaker, and more. Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, which is — for those under some mistaken impression otherwise — all about bitching about how Hollywood and the media treat women … more…
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Children of Earth: Day Five”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen ALL five episodes of *Children of Earth*!
retro trailer: ‘Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Heh: Funny jungle cultures is funny. Ah, for the good ol’ days, when racism and the assumption of cultural superiority were safe places for pop culture to go…. What’s that? We’re still going there today? Should we alert the media? Ah, but you remember Duke Mitchell and … more…
watch it: the 10/24/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Have you heard? The economy is stable again! Hoorah! “Here in America, we rise and fall together”? Try telling that to everyone whose unemployment is running out just as taxpayer money is giving multimillion-dollar bonuses to the Wall Street assholes who crashed the economy. I wish I lived on the planet Obama’s talking about. It … more…
question of the weekend: Will you wear a costume for Halloween?
The weekend-open-thread experiment of a while back didn’t really pan out, so I thought I’d try another tack to start some conversation over the weekends. And since there are many commenters here who are regulars, I thought: Let’s use these weekend threads to talk about things not related to movies, so we maybe we can … more…
