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Today’s question comes from reader Dardo, who notes that: it seems that nowadays every really great movie or important in some way is at least around two hours long. so the question is which short movies (around 90 minutes or less) from the last 25 years you find truly excellent, like you would give them … more…
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…
A theater in Chicago is offering a free Harry Potter film festival, showing one film — for free! — in the series for one showing each, starting today and running through Tuesday, so that fans can refresh their memory or so that catchers-up can get up to speed before Half-Blood Prince opens with midnight shows … more…
The Toronto Globe and Mail reported early this week on a new technology designed to enhance the moviegoing experience: Canadians will be among the first to feel what it’s like to fly with Harry Potter. D-BOX Technologies Inc. has signed on with the latest instalment in the popular fantasy series, titled Harry Potter and the … more…
Forget the political as personal. The political is entertainment-a-licious in 2009. Variety recently pondered the media future of soon-to-be ex-governor of Alaska Sarah Palin: In the days since she announced her resignation as Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin’s decision has remained a source of mystery, speculation and debate. But there’s little doubt that she’ll have a … more…
Lots of you have emailed me about this one, and yes, I’m as dumbfounded as you are. From The Hollywood Reporter: Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game “Asteroids.” Matthew Lopez will write the script for the feature adaptation, which will be produced … more…
It always becomes a national pastime when the news networks go overboard in covering a major celebrity happening… at the moment, of course, the seemingly nonstop coverage of the death of Michael Jackson: We start complaining about how the news networks are going overboard. If it appeared to slow down a little over the long … more…
Isn’t this like having Quincy Jones review music? Or Catherine de Medici review fine arts? Harvey Weinstein is reviewing movies, at Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast (that’s like Huffington Post, a refuge for all those poor celebrities with no other outlets for their voices, except the Beast does pay, as long as you sign away … more…
It’s been my dream for ages: everything online. Old TV shows, every movie ever made, everything on demand all time. I don’t want to flip over to Turner Classic Movies and watch whatever old movie it’s deigning to air at that moment — I want to tune my Internet-ready HDTV to TCM’s Web site and … more…
Here’s something else we can blame Michael Bay for: making film critics the most hated people in America, at least for the moment. This is not at all ironic, because Bay’s movie panders (as all his movies do) to the most unthinking, uncritical, unself-aware reflexes of lowest-common-denominator audiences. I am not saying that everyone who … more…
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