Month: March 2010

screencap Friday: what the flick? #116

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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…

this is why Neil Gaiman is a god

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I don’t know why it took this long, but yesterday, the Guardian published “A nobody’s guide to the Oscars,” by Neil Gaiman. He was present at that august event because he wrote the source material for Coraline, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature: I had also written a 15-second sequence for the Oscars, in … more…

Chloe (review)

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I didn’t know, going in to *Chloe,* that it is an English-language remake of the 2003 French film *Nathalie…* So as it unspooled, I found myself not pondering sexy Gallic flicks but, instead, this: “Atom Egoyan’s been watching *Fatal Attraction,* hasn’t he?”

trailer break: ‘Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang’

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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Okay, so: belching and pooping and, basically, the same movie all over again (not that that would be so bad, since the first one was fantastic). But also baby pigs and baby elephants, Rhys Ifans and Bill Bailey, Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Ralph Fiennes in … more…

question of the day: Now that the Harry Potter theme park is about to launch, what other stories deserve their own theme park?

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If you’re in the U.S., you’ve probably seen the TV ads for Universal Orlando Resort’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opens on June 18. It sounds pretty cool, as manufactured entertainment experiences go (via People): As for what Potter fans will encounter when the gates open, a peek into Harry’s World earlier this month … more…