Pacific Rim (trailer)
The Cloverfield monster battles Transformers. Was I supposed to laugh at this? Cuz I did…
Guillermo del Toro
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (review)
No, not all who wander are lost. But doesn’t mean that some who wander aren’t lost. Such as Peter Jackson, with his first-of-three-parts big-screen adaptation of The Hobbit.
Snow White and the Huntsman (review)
Would really really like for you to feel the grand, sweeping, larger-than-life mythos, and borrows willy-nilly from Peter Jackson and Guillermo Del Toro to try to do so.
say good-bye to grownup horror movies…
Guillermo del Toro refuses to make a PG-13 horror movie, and Universal freaks out…
save Paul Rudd; movie apathy; everybody loves ‘Mad Men’; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
Joss Whedon will direct ‘Avengers’; much ado about ‘Inception’ and ‘Mad Men’; celebrity stalkers; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
omg: maybe Peter Jackson will direct ‘The Hobbit’ after all?
Mike Fleming at Deadline is reporting that maybe this geek-dream-come-true is so: EXCLUSIVE: In what amounts to a dream come true for fans of Middle Earth, Peter Jackson has decided to direct two installments of The Hobbit, trusted sources are telling me. His deal is being negotiated right now with Warner Bros , New Line … more…
question of the day: Now that Guillermo Del Toro has departed from the project, who should direct ‘The Hobbit’?
It was only this past Friday when learned that the Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit was stuck in preproduction limbo because of the disintegration of MGM, which holds some of the rights to the project. But all indications were that director Guillermo Del Toro was ready to go ahead as soon as the … more…
dream cast: Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ (to give him a boot in the ass)
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…
Comic Books Unbound (review)
It’s an entry in the ongoing series ‘Starz Inside’ that the cable network Starz likes to label ‘documentary,’ but this one, at least, feels exactly like the kind of promotional filler you find filling up odd scheduling holes on premium movie channels (it’s suspiciously 59 minutes in length).
