‘Lost’ blogging: “Everybody Loves Hugo”
Here are the thoughts I jotted down, pretty much in order as they occurred to me as I watched…
question of the day: Who is your dream celebrity casting of a celebrity?
Confused? See, it’s like this: This week we learned that Rachel Weisz will play Jackie Kennedy in an upcoming movie by Darren Aronofsky about the first lady’s life just after her husband’s assassination. And we learned that Robert Pattinson will play Kurt Cobain with Scarlett Johansson as Courtney Love in an upcoming movie from David … more…
oh, for the love of Tim Berners-Lee…
You know what, dude? You can read our minds. We’re totally predictable. When you mention RedMist.org in your little Kick-Ass movie, you already know what 10 million geeks are going to do the minute they get home: They’re going to punch RedMist.org into a Web browser. (Hell, they might even do it right in the … more…
watch it: “Lego Doctor Who: Horror Of The Nestene”
I’m sorta impressed and sorta horrified at how many results turn up when you plug “Lego Doctor Who” into YouTube’s search field…
North American box office: ‘Clash’ drops titanically
But Fey and Carell have a very nice night out: 1. Clash of the Titans: $26.6 million (2nd week; drops 57%) 2. Date Night: $25.2 million (NEW) 3. How to Train Your Dragon: $24.9 million (3rd week; drops 14%) 4. Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too: $11 million (2nd week; drops 62%) 5. … more…
trailer break: ‘Step Up 3D’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Is this the wrongest use of 3D ever? It might be. Not that I totally can’t wait to get that one guy’s elbow in my face. Cuz that’s gonna be cool. I love how the trailer tells us that this is from director Jon M. Chu, like … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘St. Helens: 30th Anniversary Edition starring Academy Award Winner Art Carney!’
I’d like it noted that the exclamation point and the stuff about Carney being an Oscar winner are included in the official title at Amazon. I didn’t add that. Though I might have if I thought it was funnier that way. Which it is. So what’s it all about? It’s “the true story of Harry … more…
question of the day: Is product placement in movies and TV necessarily a bad thing?
This past weekend in my Leftover Links roundup, I included a link to a story in The New York Times called “Branding Comes Early in Filmmaking Process,” about how product placement in studio films is now often being arranged “before the movie is cast or the script is fully shaped.” My reaction to the Times … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Harry Brown,’ ‘Death at a Funeral’
It’s another slow movie week for me. If only I’d bought the recently released Region 2 DVD of Harry Brown (opens in the U.S. and Canada on April 30; it played in the U.K. last autumn), I could have skipped a screening altogether. But what the hell: I gotta go downtown for something else today … more…
because I am *such* a dork…
…I’ve posted more Doctor Who fan fiction over at my other site. One is a story about Nyssa and her life on Terminus (featuring a visit from the Peter Davison Doctor), and the other is based upon the notion of “gumblejack,” the “finest fish in the galaxy, maybe the universe,” according to the Colin Baker … more…
