liveblogging the State of the Union
For whoever cares, I’ll be Facebooking my reactions to Obama’s State of the Union. Starting about now…
Month: January 2010
caption this! image from ‘From Paris With Love’
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie or TV show and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Is this a vase I see before me?: Lionsgate tells us about the film: A low-ranking intelligence operative (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) working in the … more…
North American box office: ‘Avatar’ is unstoppable
Nothing new can even come close to the Cameron juggernaut: 1. Avatar: $34.9 million 2. Legion: $17.5 million (NEW) 3. The Book of Eli: $15.7 million (2nd week; drops 52%) 4. Tooth Fairy: $14 million (NEW) 5. The Lovely Bones: $8.4 million (2nd week in wide release; drops 51%) actual numbers, not estimates It didn’t … more…
watch it: “Greeting Card Emergency: Neil Gaiman & Amanda Palmer’s engagement”
When you care enough to send the very weirdest, as David Ellis Dickerson, refugee from Hallmark, always does:
the ‘Star Trek’ world has arrived
I’ve been waiting for it all: The transporter. The easy interstellar travel on a luxurious starship. The end of poverty and the money economy. The fully functional positronic androids who like cats. The sex with hot aliens with funny noses. And today, a little part of my dream came true. Apple announced the iPad. No, … more…
because no one would believe it wasn’t a white man saving the world
So, you know that Extraordinary Measures movie, in which Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford develop a drug to rescue little kids suffering from a terrible disease from dying way, way too young? Well, it turns out that while Fraser as biotech exec John Crowley isn’t too bad a choice as casting goes, Ford as “Dr. … more…
trailer break: ‘Universal Soldier: Regeneration’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I bet you get huge tax credits for shooting at Chernobyl. What’s that? They didn’t actually shoot at Chernobyl? This is what’s wrong with cinema today: everyone’s willing to let Hollywood glam and FX trump authenticity. *sigh* Dolph Lundgren and Jean-Claude Van Damme: Which one will be … more…
question of the day: Sam Worthington as Dracula? How else can the Universal Monster reboot go down in flames?
So, we have Benicio Del Toro about to land as the Wolfman, and now we get word that Sam Worthington may be playing Dracula in a Summer 2011 flick. What’s going on is this: Universal is trying to reboot its Universal Monsters brand. Besides Dracula and the Wolfman, the Universal Monsters stable includes Frankenstein, the … more…
Extraordinary Measures (review)
*Extraordinary Measures* is to science what *Erin Brockovich* was to the law.
the rise of the geeks continues…
Item: Tim Burton will head up the jury at Cannes this coming May. Burton, quoted at Empire, notes that: After spending my early life watching triple features and 48-hour horror movie marathons, I’m finally ready for this. Item: The Museum of Modern Art’s retrospective on the art and film of Tim Burton continues through April. … more…
