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Today is Darwin Day, the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin… and this year is a biggie: it’s 200 years since he was born. In honor of the man and his paradigm-shattering breakthrough in biological science, today’s question: What scientific discipline would you like to see explored more on film? We’ve seen lots of … more…
A followup to yesterday’s question about scary movies: What setting would you like to see a horror movie take place in? Could be a location you’ve never seen a horror movie set in, or a kind of place that’s underutilized. Me, I’d like to see more scary movies in urban settings. It’s always the lonely … more…
No explanation needed: What’s the scariest movie you’ve ever seen? Mine is Threads, the 1983 British TV movie about an all-out global nuclear war. It’s so horrifyingly straightforward that it still gives me nightmares… and at the time that I saw it, in the 80s (it aired on PBS in the States), it was something … more…
I’m being facetious, of course. I’m sort of surprised that an actor getting angry on a movie set is news at all, but there we are. McG, director of the new Terminator movie during the shooting of which Bale went off on a tirade, defended the actor at Comic Con in New York this weekend: … more…
I’m wandering London at the moment, so last night’s BSG is waiting for me on my DVR — I’ll watch it and blog about it when I return home. For now, use this open thread to chat about the episode. Feel free to spoil, but behave yourselves — I’ll be avoiding the comments here until … more…
You kids behave yourselves while mom’s away. Same commenting rules as always apply: Be smart, be kind, be passionate. Assume the best about other posters rather than the worst. Disagreements are fine as long as we act civilly about them. Imagine you’re at a party at my house, treat your fellow guests with respect, and … more…
I’m in London at the moment, and I hope to get the chance to go to a movie here. Though to be honest, it’s low on my list of priorites. Talking to people here about movies is high on the list, but it does seem kind of silly of waste precious hours here on a … more…
The new martial-arts movie Chocolate is being promoted, in part, by gleeful announcements that “no wires” and “no stunt doubles” were used. (You can see that in the trailer.) And the end credits of the film run over a montage of some of the many injuries the fighters incurred in the course of making the … more…
It’s always an evening of surprises at the Oscars, of course, but I’m not talking about dark horses coming from behind to snag a little golden guy or some chick tripping over her gown in her four-inch heels as she climbs to the podium. I’m talking about this: LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Oscar organizers on … more…
Fans of the anime series Avatar: The Last Airbender are up in arms over the casting of the live-action movie adaptation, being directed by M. Night Shyamalan and scheduled for release in 2010: not one member of the cast is Asian or Inuit, as the setting and ethos of the original series suggests they should … more…
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