will Peter Berg direct a new ‘Dune’ movie?

The Net’s been abuzz about the possibilities for a couple of months, but now Ain’t It Cool News is sorta-kinda confirming the rumor — they’re calling it a “well-founded rumor” — that a new film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune is in the works. We’ll now pause for a brief moment of shuddering from those … more…

movie-ku #29

In honor of truly indie filmmakers like Brian Flemming (whom I mentioned recently here): Digital dreaming Write a screenplay, buy a cam Discs sell cheap online

‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Countrycide”

I’m probably in the minority on this, but I like that there turned out to be no psychopathic alien influence at work here. I like that ‘Torchwood’ isn’t pretending that you have to leave the planet or import creatures from outer space in order to find terrible things.

‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Christmas Invasion”

Maybe it seems silly, at first glance, to be discussing the David Tennant episodes in reverse order of season — I’ve just wrapped up the “Harold Saxon” arc, and here we are back in the “Torchwood” arc, Tennant’s first season and Billie Piper’s last. But I’m glad I did it this way, because if I’d done it the other way around…