watch it: “Leap Day 08 – Movie of Support – Leap Year 2008”
Won’t someone think of the children? Please visit The Quadrennial Council and give, won’t you? (Technorati tags: Leap Day)
Penelope (review)
There are a bunch of theories floating around the fanboy — and fangirl — Internet purporting to explain why ‘Penelope’ is only getting released in theaters now. It did, after all, make its debut all the way back at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival…
The Other Boleyn Girl (review)
Some people are just meant to be movie stars — they’ve got that indefinable It that makes them glow onscreen, that makes them impossible not to watch.
daily list: top 5 underreported movie-related copycat instances
So it turns out people are stabbing one another for no reason at showings of the horror movie The Signal, which is about people stabbing one another for no reason. What isn’t widely known is that this kind of thing happens all the time, and not just with horror movies inspiring people to go on … more…
watch it: “Michael Bay Verizon FiOS Commercial” and “Tea Partay”
I’ve been resisting posting advertisements as web videos of the day, because even when they are pretty cool, I’m trying to make this about video that doesn’t get seen enough, or video that is breaking barriers, or video that is doing anything other than what corporate video has been doing for the last half century, … more…
why didn’t they just fly Frodo to Mount Doom?
It’s one of those classic imponderables, like Why is the sky blue? and How do they get those ships into the bottles? — Why didn’t the eagles just fly Frodo to Mount Doom? Well, a cartoonist calling himself The Big Movie Freak thinks he has the answer. Enjoy. (Technorati tags: Frodo, Mount Doom)
‘Jericho’ blogging: “Jennings & Rall”
(previous: “Condor”) So, Ravenwood is Jennings & Rall’s private army, huh? How did we not see that coming? (Isn’t it chilling how the seemingly innocuous phrase “wholly owned subsidiary” has become so, you know, chilling?) Still, “this isn’t Iraq,” Eric reminds Jake. Or is it? The entirety of Jericho is so clearly a response to … more…
watch it: “Star Wars according to a 3 year old”
Great minds thinking alike: reader JSW pointed this one out in comments yesterday, and it was already slated to be today’s video: (Technorati tags: Star Wars according to a 3 year old)
daily list: 10 of 2008’s hot movies reviewed now
Maxim magazine got itself in a tiny bit of hot water this week when it published a review of the new Black Crowes album without anyone actually having listened to it. Maxim called the review — which gave the album two and a half stars out of five — “an educated guess.” Peter Angelos, the … more…
see ‘The Gates’ on HBO
Aw, crap, I meant to remind you earlier that the wonderful documentary The Gates — which I reviewed when I saw it at the Tribeca Film Festival last spring — debuted on HBO tonight at 10pm Eastern. Remember the orange flags that artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude covered Central Park in a couple years back? Those … more…
