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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Yesterday, I wrote about how filmmaker Laura Poitras has been targeted by the federal government because of her work investigating and critiquing the U.S.’s prosecution of the “war on terror.” This is her latest film. It’s easy to see why it might make the feds uncomfortable, but … more…
Today, Tim Burton’s baroque and pointless adaptation of Alice in Wonderland will cross the $1 billion mark in worldwide box office receipts, as The Hollywood Reporter noted the other day. It’s notable, too, as the first of the billionaire movies to have opened not in the summer season or at Christmastime but in spring. (The … more…
Remember D.C. Douglas, the voiceover actor who was fired from GEICO after he left a nasty (and admittedly juvenile) voicemail for teabagger org FreedomWorks? He’s back, and his satire a lot sharper now: (via Americablog)
Filmmaker Laura Poitras makes a documentary called The Oath about Abu Jandal, who was once Osama Bin Laden’s bodyguard and is now a cab driver in Yemen. So of course she’s now probably on all sorts of government watchlists, to the point where she often has troubled getting on an airplane. She’s a journalist, mind. … more…
It’d good to be the queen… We rarely see people sitting in movie posters, perhaps because it indicates a level of inaction that it is inadvisable to suggest regarding most movies, which are supposed to be exciting and in motion. And yet, there’s a kind of power suggested by these two seated women. Tilda Swinton … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I know I’m probably setting myself up for disappointment. Because though the provenance of this film — from the same people who brought us Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Yes Man and Superbad — does not inspire confidence in me, there’s something about this trailer that makes me … more…
Yes, it’s one more Lost post, one more instance of me talking more about a show I said I was done talking about. Hey: it’s my site. I was intrigued this morning to come across a post at the L.A. Times blog Show Tracker about those final shots of the Lost finale. You know, the … more…
From Neil Gaiman’s own Twitpic feed: That’s Gaiman on the right, Steven Moffat in the middle, and Richard Curtis (who will also be contributing a script to an upcoming series of Doctor Who) on the left. (Thanks to the many readers, including Kat and Keith, who sent me this via email and Facebook.) That’s pretty … more…
The Los Angeles Times suddenly notices that two of Hollywood’s would-be blockbusters for Summer 2010 are full of white actors playing nonwhite characters: So when Disney studios announced plans for a live-action adaptation of Prince, Dar held out hope it would be a “serious story that would dispel a lot of stereotypes and misconceptions.” Then … more…
Hands down the absolute best fan-made music video I’ve ever seen: (via reader James and Sci Fi Wire)
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