question of the day: What is your favorite language invented for film, TV, or books?
Goa’uld is definitely one of mine, partly because I actually started to think in it, at least for a few basic vocabulary words, while watching Stargate SG-1…
John Carter
critic’s minifesto #4: I am biast
It’s astonishing how often I am “accused” of being biased — or “biast,” as a reader once blasted at me — as if there were something extraordinary or unusual or unlikely or uncriticly about this…
question of the day: Are classic pulp novels too dated to make faithful transfers to the big screen?
John Carter doesn’t work, but with some updating and shifts in emphasis, the Victorian Sherlock Holmes and War of the Worlds have made recent — and very successful — transfers to the big screen. Has entertainment moved on too much for popcorn crowds to care about classic pulp presented classically?
question of the day: With so many expensive movies sinking this year, will Hollywood step back from the blockbuster?
Or will the industry double-down and take even bigger gambles with $500 million movies in coming years?
Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season (review)
May well be the most solidly confident storytelling I’ve seen on television, perhaps ever…
the real moral of Star Wars (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Why are we obsessed with origin stories?
Disney figured we were all dying to see a John Carter origin story. Were we? Or maybe only Hollywood is obsessed with origin stories, and we’re just along for the ride?
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…
the BBC thinks women can’t be geeks (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
John Carter (review)
This dreary Disneyfied inconsequence features all the bigotries of century-old pulp fiction and none of the romance, neither the sexual nor the adventurous kind…
