retro trailer: ‘The Goonies’

Take a look back at an old trailer… It’s funny how different trailers looked even 25 years ago — this feels really slow, doesn’t it? Look how young Sean Astin is! And Josh Brolin! Can you imagine a movie today calling a kid “Chunk”? It’d never happen — everyone would be too worried about damaging … more…

is David Tennant going to play Bilbo Baggins?

This sounds purely speculative to me, but what fun speculation: Doctor Who’s David Tennant tipped to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit The 38-year-old is tipped to play Bilbo Baggins in the big screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s book. The Scottish star leads a list of stars, including James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, vying to … more…

Torchwood: Children of Earth (review)

*Children of Earth* is haunting me, and I mean that literally, in a lying-awake-in-the-dark-of-night, staring-at-the-dark-ceiling, unable-to-sleep kind of way. Because my head is full of all the awful conundrums and evils and necessary evils this astonishing and magnificent story weaves.

U.K. box office: ‘Bruno’ is huge

A quick look at last weekend in the U.K. as we head into the new one: 1. Bruno: £5 million (NEW) 2. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: £4.8 million (2nd week; drops 38%) 3. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: £1.4 million (4th week; drops 35%) 4. The Hangover: £1.2 million 5. Public Enemies: £1 … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #80

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.