the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Matty Hanson & The Invisibility Ray’
Boys are geniuses. Girls need rescuing. Lots of fun lessons to learn!
Year: 2011
script spy: a scene from the upcoming ‘Battleship’
You have slightly more than a year to prepare your heart and soul for the onslaught of Battleship, the $200 million flick based on the Milton Bradley board game, coming to a theater near you May 2012. In the interests of preventing your head from exploding out of sheer awesome overload once the film arrives, I am proud to inoculate you with a snippet from a scene, supplied to me by many Bothan spies who gave their lives to get me this…
watch it: “Equals”
Today is International Women’s Day, and in honor of this, Daniel Craig and Judi Dench highlight the inequalities women still face, in a short film by Sam Taylor-Wood.
trailer break: ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’
It’s Red Dawn Down Under!
question of the day: Would you watch movies on Facebook?
Warner Bros. announced today that it has started offering streaming movies to rent or purchase directly on Facebook. Good idea? What are the potential problems?
watch it: “Riverdale : Archie Movie Trailer”
A fan-made spoof. But terrifyingly close to something that could actually happen.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Doctor Who’ credits done up ‘Buffy’ style
The crossover between Doctor Who fandom and Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom is large enough that there is not just one but two (at least) fan-made versions of an imaginary Doctor Who opening-credits sequence in the style of Buffy…
The Tempest (review)
There’s a little bit of Hammer horror in Julie Taymor’s messy but thrilling adaptation of Shakespeare’s last play, and there’s more than a little turning-of-the-tables, all of which brings a new perspective on the play, and a new appreciation for it, which is the best we can ask for the umpteenth adaptation of a centuries-old work.
trailer break: ‘Source Code’
Didn’t Quantum Leap do this 20 years ago?
question of the day: What does Hollywood want with former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd… and vice versa?
The MPAA has a new chairman: a former U.S. Senator who has made a career of favoring corporations over citizens. How will he help make Hollywood even worse than it already is?
