loaded question: which celebrity would you cast as which current or historical figure in a biopic?
In honor of Daniel Radcliffe as Weird Al Yankovic. Yes, this is happening.
Daniel Radcliffe
Playmobil: The Movie movie review: a cheap ad disguised as a movie (barely)
This plastic horror — horrifically, it’s a musical — is a head-smackingly dumb exercise in corporate filmmaking and mercenary marketing. So crass it makes me rethink my love of the toys themselves.
Now You See Me 2 movie review: now you don’t
The delicately balanced foolishness of Now You See Me gives way to impossibly supernatural magic tricks aimed at thwarting the least menacing villain ever.
Victor Frankenstein movie review: monster mush
A riff on the Hollywood conventions of a story we know very well already, with little new to say. James McAvoy’s mad scientist is fun to watch, though.
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death movie review: orphan blech
Thinks it’s hitting notes of subconscious dread, but it’s just swinging a sledgehammer of tropes and hoping one of them sticks. (Spoiler: None do.)
who — if anyone — has emerged as an indisputable movie star since the year 2000?
We’re nearly 15 years into the century — it shouldn’t be so hard to think of names to fill this roster.
who are the most interesting young actors (male and female) working today?
My picks: Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Radcliffe…
question of the day: What’s your favorite or pet “conspiracy theory” about a book, movie, or TV show?
I was quite proud to have developed my own conspiracy theory about Hamlet (although I discovered later that I am not the first person to have thought of this)…
The Dark Knight Rises was inspired by Charles Dickens (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Is Harry Potter the Antichrist?
Does the Harry Potter-ization of pop culture — stories becoming money-generating franchises from the get-go — represent a modern culture rotting at its core, as Alan Moore suggests in his new graphic novel Century 2009?
