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It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another installment in the semiregular Dream Cast, in which we take a classic movie, TV show, or book, perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with, and cast a production or recast a hypothetical remake with actors working today. This week: a hypothetical … more…
Ben Stein — Nixon administration criminal turned Ferris Bueller actor turned game show host turned conservative blowhard — has been let go as a columnist by the paper of record. In The American Spectator, Stein explains why he was “Expelled from The New York Times” — it started when he made an extended cinematic argument … more…
Benjamin Kerstein in the New Ledger is so not a fan of everyone who’s so not a fan of Michael Bay: Everyone who writes about movies is now apparently required to hate Michael Bay. The ex-director of commercials and music videos, who has made some of the most successful films of the last decade—Bad Boys, … more…
Film writer-director-producer John Hughes died yesterday, of a sudden heart attack in New York, where he was visiting. He was only 59. I am precisely the right age to have felt as if Hughes was speaking directly to me with his teen-angst comedies in the 1980s. (Which Breakfast Club character was I? I’d have been … more…
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another installment in the semiregular Dream Cast, in which we take a classic movie, TV show, or book, perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with, and cast a production or recast a hypothetical (or sometimes not so hypothetical) remake with actors working … more…
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another installment in the semiregular Dream Cast, in which we take a classic movie, TV show, or — NEW! — book, perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with, and cast a production or recast a hypothetical (or sometimes not so hypothetical) remake … more…
Yup, they really do: Oh my god, the screams. David Tennant must have gone deaf. I think it’s totally adorable that John Barrowman appears to be as bowled over by a kiss from David Tennant as any of us would be… (Oh, and I love the guy in the crowd who shouts, “I love you, … more…
A Time magazine poll this week asked “Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America’s most trusted newscaster?” The results: Jon Stewart: 44% Brian Williams: 29% Charlie Gibson: 19% Katie Couric: 7% What scares me more than the fact that the state of journalism is so pathetic these days that court jester Jon … more…
Before I get flamed, let me be clear: I’m not dissing World of Warcraft when I say that I have no choice but to wonder what the hell the point of a World of Warcraft movie could possibly be (beyond the obvious mercenary one of cashing in on the name, of course). We’re gonna find … more…
This sounds purely speculative to me, but what fun speculation: Doctor Who’s David Tennant tipped to play Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit The 38-year-old is tipped to play Bilbo Baggins in the big screen adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s book. The Scottish star leads a list of stars, including James McAvoy and Daniel Radcliffe, vying to … more…
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