watch it: “Moxy Mickey believed in love”
Friday baby squirrel cuteness, from my friend Pamela:
March 26: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you dropped a pocketwatch in the shower and now you’re stuck in 1857. But you can have a multiplex-like experience in the 19th century (assuming you remembered to bring along your portable DVD player) with a collection of the right … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #116
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
this is why Neil Gaiman is a god
I don’t know why it took this long, but yesterday, the Guardian published “A nobody’s guide to the Oscars,” by Neil Gaiman. He was present at that august event because he wrote the source material for Coraline, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature: I had also written a 15-second sequence for the Oscars, in … more…
poster covergence: ‘E.T’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
I take a chance and reach out and touch the alien being, and my heart light glows. *sigh*
Chloe (review)
I didn’t know, going in to *Chloe,* that it is an English-language remake of the 2003 French film *Nathalie…* So as it unspooled, I found myself not pondering sexy Gallic flicks but, instead, this: “Atom Egoyan’s been watching *Fatal Attraction,* hasn’t he?”
because critics should just learn how to keep their opinions to themselves
I’m really trying not to overreact to Kevin Smith’s tirade against film critics (not to mention the cancellation of At the Movies), because I’m getting tired, frankly, of hearing myself complain and moan about the death of film criticism, and I’m trying to be positive and optimistic and stay focused on figuring out how to … more…
A Prophet (Un prophète) (review)
How a does a timid boy become a violent gangster? Like this.
trailer break: ‘Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Okay, so: belching and pooping and, basically, the same movie all over again (not that that would be so bad, since the first one was fantastic). But also baby pigs and baby elephants, Rhys Ifans and Bill Bailey, Emma Thompson and Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Ralph Fiennes in … more…
question of the day: Now that the Harry Potter theme park is about to launch, what other stories deserve their own theme park?
If you’re in the U.S., you’ve probably seen the TV ads for Universal Orlando Resort’s Wizarding World of Harry Potter, which opens on June 18. It sounds pretty cool, as manufactured entertainment experiences go (via People): As for what Potter fans will encounter when the gates open, a peek into Harry’s World earlier this month … more…
