another mysterious U.K. embargo: ‘Hanna’
It makes no damn sense at all. There are already reviews up at Rotten Tomatoes!
deep thought (re ‘Mars Needs Moms’)
Not all children’s books — not even really really good ones — are worth blowing up into $150 million, CGI-motion-captured 3D IMAX cinematic experiences.
Mars Needs Moms (review)
Do kids really need to be reminded — in IMAX 3D! — that Mom loves you and has your best interests at heart when she tells you to eat your broccoli and gets mad when you feed it to the cat instead? I guess someone at Disney figured this was the case.
Christopher Eccleston at BAFTA on April 12
Get your tix now for a London preview screening of The Shadow Line and the Q&A with Eccleston afterward…
watch it: “Stephen Colbert Sings ‘Friday’ on ‘Late Night with Jimmy Fallon’”
+1,000,000 Internets to Stephen Colbert.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Season 6 BBC America trailer
There’s too much awesome and awful here for me to even begin to unpack it. Transparent aliens and River falling out of a New York skyscraper and something out of the corner of my eye and a spaceship graveyard and… oh, I just can’t wait.
the oh-yes! DVD of the week: ‘Lark Rise to Candleford: Season Four’
Lark Rise to Candleford reminds me very much of All Creatures Great and Small, with its bucolic setting and mellow sense of humor hiding a subtle sharpness…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’
Why won’t this woman just go away already?
trailer break: ‘Soul Surfer’
Wow! What an inspirational movie! What? You mean that’s not the movie? That’s just an ad for the movie?
question of the day: So who *will* direct the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
On Friday I posted an April Fool’s QOTD in which I suggested that Michael Bay was about to begin production on a ten-part 3D miniseries version of Neil Gaimain’s novel American Gods. As it turns out, I was unwittingly echoing Gaiman, who only a week earlier had announced that, indeed, a movie based on the book is in the works…
