awesome fake poster of Ryan Gosling in a Walt Disney biopic (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Indiana Jones
question of the day: Has anyone played more iconic roles than Harrison Ford?
Nothing can diminish Ford’s status as an icon… or can it?
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol movie review: mission finally accomplished
The most fun straight-up action movie in ages: while it touches on concerns about terrorism and rogue nukes, there’s nothing too heavy. But what makes it so special is how up-close and personal it is.
question of the day: What piece of clothing from a movie (or TV show) would you actually purchase and wear?
Back in the spring we talked about iconic Hollywood costumes, but this is more about functional clothing that happened to become costume, and the wearing of which lends some mojo — or serves as a sign of fandom.
translating Hollywood: the greenlighting of the Lego movie
You may have read the Variety article this week about the Lego movie Warner Bros. just greenlit. But did you understand what it was really saying? Here’s a translation…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Wedding of River Song”
Can a thing be overly complicated and too simplistic at the same time? All that to-ing and fro-ing. All that buttoning and unbuttoning.
Cowboys & Aliens (review)
Holy shit, Indiana Jones and James Bond are fighting frickin’ aliens. This is a geekgasm. Or it should be. But it isn’t.
question of the day: What little-known stories from where you live would make a great movie?
Adventure! Romance! Espionage! Nazis! Can you imagine how cool a movie about Amy Johnson could be? She was Amelia Earhart meets Indiana Jones.
question of the day: What is the greatest opening for a movie ever?
Entertainment Weekly has just posted its picks for “30 Classic Opening Movie Scenes” — and a few of them would rank among my favorite opening scenes ever…
question of the day: What movie, when you stumble across it channel surfing, will you always stay to watch through to the end, no matter how many times you’ve seen it?
I’ve got more than one. But if it’s on a channel that interrupts movies with commercials, that can kill the mood for me, and send me surfing again…
