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…for deciding that two female action stars constitutes a “new normal”: It’s amusing to realize, in hindsight, that Luc Besson’s funky-violent French art-house thriller La Femme Nikita, in 1990, and its rote American remake, Point of No Return, in 1993, were still treating lady-killer heroines with kid gloves. At that point, seeing an actress like … more…
According to Wikipedia: F.A.R.T. the Movie, released in 1991, is about a man named Russell who is obsessed with farting. His girlfriend Heather despises farts and becomes angry with Russell because all he does is watch television and fart. She tells him that if the television turns into fart jokes, then Russell won’t even leave … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Get ready for all the “Don’t spoil!”/“Revealing XYZ is not a spoiler!” discussions, à la the one we had in comments after my brief review of Let the Right One In, the Swedish film of which this is a remake. I suppose some of those discussions will … more…
It’s official: Daniel Craig has been cast as Mikael Blomkvist in the Hollywood English-language production of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I still kinda don’t see the point of remaking the movie so soon — the Swedish-language version is fantastic — but there’s no escaping it now. But it got me thinking about movies … more…
Pitch perfect parody of The Man Your Man Could Smell Like Old Spice commericals (which I featured recently): (via Galley Cat)
I’ve always thought Doctor Who was sweet, but these folks are serious about that. From Cake Wrecks (from its Sunday not-wrecky-cakes alterna-blogging): Many many many people have had similar ideas. Another TARDIS cake: And another: And another: And another: Crazy. (Thanks to bronxbee for the Cake Wrecks link. If you stumble across a cool Doctor … more…
…and on Newsweek’s fawning profile of Huffington, which declares that “The Huffington Post may have figured out the future of journalism.” And that future — though Newsweek will not say it, and barely even acknowledges this fact — is that journalism will be the purview of the idle rich, and not a field in which … more…
Who is Don Draper? That has been the question since the beginning, hasn’t it? And “Don Draper” has been selling the image of “Don Draper” since the beginning. Yet now, all of a sudden, when the selling of Don Draper has to be more overt than it ever has been, not just to those people … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Okay, so not the fun movie about PTSD we’ve been waiting for. Though surely it’s only a matter of time before Hollywood gives us that. Perhaps that’ll be the Iraq war movie people will go see. People used to not mind being depressed or provoked or both … more…
Are you familiar with the blog Bad Astronomy? It’s where, in part, astronomer Phil Plait dissects how TV and film get the science wrong in their science fiction, and even sometimes in their science “fact,” as when he rips apart alien-abduction and moon-landing-hoax “documentaries.” Now, as Web Newser reports (and as Plait himself posted the … more…
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