you’re not helping: George Lucas now out to ruin fans
Not content to have spoiled the childhoods of a generation of geeks, George Lucas is now out to appropriate our memories…
Month: August 2010
how not to do the female gaze: that unbelievably wrongheaded Zoosk commercial
I fume every time this ad comes on the TV…
Holy Rollers (review)
It’s a familiar story — Nice Kid gets mixed up in Bad Things — but as first-time feature director Kevin Asch tells it, there’s extra potency to the contrast between the Nice and the Bad.
trailer break: ‘Lottery Ticket’
I’m disappointed to see so little overt misogyny and blatant idiocy in this trailer…
question of the day: Who is your favorite villain from all of pop culture?
I’m not sure that I have a favorite villain, but The Princess Bride’s Prince Humperdinck’s ‘I killed you too quickly last time’ comes in handy once in a while.
retro trailer: ‘Without a Clue’
Another reminder of just how often Sherlock Holmes has been fiddled with, updated, rewound, and reinvented by filmmakers…
cinematic roots of: ‘Middle Men’
In *Middle Men,* Luke Wilson invents porn on the Internet and then thinks it’s a bad idea, but no backsies, he’s stuck with the Russian mobsters who want his money and him dead… This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Step Up 3D’
In *Step Up 3D,* street dancers in New York City meet other tough dancers in a battle to the death… or at least for the prize money to save their world from being foreclosed. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘The Other Guys’
In *The Other Guys,* Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg are ordinary NYPD detectives trying to move out of the shadow of two superstar detectives, while also trying not to kill each other. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
‘Inception’ attacks ‘X-Men: First Class’; pushing back against 3D; Lisbeth Salander does not eat pray love; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused…
