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The Hollywood Reporter broke the news on Friday: Ryan Reynolds has been chosen to play the Green Lantern, winning the part over a slew of other hot names: After an intense months-long search, Warner Bros. has settled on Ryan Reynolds as its choice to play “Green Lantern,” the studio’s live-action tentpole based on the DC … more…
I always thought Victoria Jackson was sorta cute on 1980s Saturday Night Live, in a ditzy-blonde kind of way that gave ditzy blondes a halfway decent image of sweetness and nontoxicity. These days, she is clearly out to correct that unfair impression. For at Big Hollywood — the frequently hilarious blog where, as site founder … more…
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Dream Cast, and this week we’re doing something special in honor of the American holiday Fourth of July. I’ve always wondered why we haven’t gotten a big, juicy, emotional, dramatic, epic movie about the revolt of the British colonies in the New World, especially considering how many spectacular … more…
If this isn’t the quote of the year (as spoken to the London Times), then I dunno what is: Look, it’s easy to go shoot an art movie on a winery in the South of France. But people have no idea how hard it is to create something like Transformers. How many people it takes … more…
Well, not really. But still. *sigh* There’s these ads for The Cleaner all over NYC, on the sides of buses and on phone kiosks and such, and I’m always stopped in my tracks. Because Benjamin Bratt is soooo irresistible… The Cleaner, not so much. But I’ll probably leave it on on the TV in the … more…
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another Dream Cast, in which we take a classic movie or TV show — perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with — and recast a hypothetical (or sometimes not so hypothetical) remake with actors working today. This week: Three’s Company, the 1977-84 … more…
I feel like I’m flogging a dead horse keeping up with Dream Cast, but I’m willing to give it a few more weeks to prove itself either vital or a goner. This week: Magnum, P.I., the 1980-88 CBS action detective series starring Tom Selleck as a former Navy SEAL and Vietnam vet now working as … more…
Last summer, starting just around this very same time, I began my “Summer of David Tennant and ‘Hamlet.’” It was a way to psych myself up — as if I needed that — for my then-upcoming September trip to England to see David Tennant in Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon. The trip … more…
Ah, well, now, when I get to David Tennant’s startling performance in Takin’ Over the Asylum, I’ll get to, as well, a little bit of a discussion about stories about so-called crazy people as the only sane ones among us. But here, in the very first episode of the existential comedy detective series Randall and … more…
I think I figured out why ABC is torturing us by bringing Pushing Daisies back to TV now, for a couple of weeks, instead of just letting us enjoy those last few unaired episodes on DVD in the privacy of our own misery. It’s because Anna Friel — aka Chuck Charles, beloved of Ned the … more…
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