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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.
The Net is just having so much fun with John McCain: via Eschaton (There’s also this: it’s audio only, but it’s even funnier.)
Something in the zeitgeist is making us suddenly fascinated by people who dress up in pseudo medieval garb, pick up fake swords and maces, and beat the hitpoints out of one another. You know, for fun.
Oh, yeah, Nic Cage is so tough with his long hair and all the guns and his traveling around the planet to kill people for hire and his world-weary ennui, but he can’t face a few pathetic film critics? Yup, Bangkok Dangerous, the only new wide release today, was not screened in advance for us … more…
It’s interesting to have a look at the Season Two DVD set for the sense you can gather, in the subtext of the bonus materials, of a series that became a victim of outside circumstances as well as its own success.
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Huh. I was more excited for this flick before I saw the trailer. Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio in a Ridley Scott film? That sounds like a killer prospect. And then I watched the trailer just now, and it looks rather similar to Traitor, which I … more…
Actually, I have no idea what Oliver Stone’s movie plans are, but check out the September 2004 cover of Life magazine: Kinda creepy, ain’t it? I guess Stone could get Ian Holm in his old-Bilbo makeup to play McCain… via ThinkProgress by way of Eschaton
It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, the 1986 John Hughes flick about how the coolest kid in school plays hooky. (If you have a suggestion for an 80s TV show or movie we should play with, feel … more…
Geeks are too cool: Lots of folks emailed me about this: thanks to you all. And keep the suggestions coming — I can’t scout the whole Net myself.
It’s like, you make one clean spot, and all of a sudden the whole place looks like hell…
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