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Have you read any of Stephen King’s series The Dark Tower? No? Imagine if Clint Eastwood and James Joyce collaborated on a trippy fantasy about the mystical quest of a gunslinger. It’s weird and fascinating and has inspired a cultish following (and I really need to read more of the series [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada] … more…
This time next year, I will be Queen of the Internet.
The 1993 date on these ads is a tad outside what I’d been thinking of as “retro” for Thursday’s retro TV ad web video of the day: I’d previously not featured anything newer than the 1980s. And that will continue to be the case here (for a while, at least). I’m making an exception for … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Remember those old ads that used to ask, “Is it live, or is is Memorex?” Movies like this one make me wonder, Is it satire, or just a calculated appropriation of the notion? Razing a forest to make way for a forest-themed mall is a good idea, … more…
In response to yesterday’s QOTD — about whether we are reinventing ourselves as people who watch movies and TV, listen to music, read books, and play games in light of the ever expanding choices we have for how we do these things — reader LaSargenta commented: I take umbrage at having to call myself a … more…
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. “Dude, it totally says you can’t park there!”: Universal Pictures tells us about the movie: Oscar winner Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure … more…
Weird. I just assumed my DVR had recorded an episode last night and it had been driving me nuts all day that I simply had too much else going on today to get to it. And I suffered a strange sort of displacement when I sat down just now to finally watch it and jot … more…
The return of Sharlto Copley as District 9’s Wikus Van De Merwe, in a sketch from the recent South African Music Awards: Wikus and Charlize – watch more funny videos (via Cinematical)
When I was a kid and fell in love with movies and decided I wanted to make movies (an ambition that later morphed into writing about movies, so no, I’m not quite the cliché of the critic who’s a thwarted filmmaker), I decided that I wanted to be the next Steven Spielberg. His movies of … more…
In the name of the protagonist, the love interest, and the evil villain. The trinity: always a good choice, apparently, when marketing a movie. It doesn’t matter what kind of movie. A Western action horror zombie thriller? Perfect! An anti-imperialist feminist costume drama? No problem! Does the motif work for nonhistorical films? Of course!
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