question of the day: What secondary or tertiary characters from literature deserve their own movie?
Or even if they don’t actually deserve it, you just want to see it…
Johnny Depp
question of the day: O Hollywood, where art thou?
Does Hollywood truly intend to be more creative, more original… or is this just a clever new marketing tactic?
The Tourist (review)
Who knew the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had such a sense of humor? A nomination for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy, for The Tourist? Unless… No… They can’t mean “Inadvertent Comedy,” can they?
deep thought (re Channing Tatum)
Channing Tatum is no Johnny Depp, and starring in a remake of 21 Jump Street will not make him so.
trailer break: ‘The Tourist’
I bet Angelina Jolie isn’t sorry she got Johnny Depp involved in this at all. I bet she’s loving it…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: one vision of an Americanized ‘Doctor Who’
The recent rumor about Johnny Depp being cast as the Doctor in a Hollywood production of Doctor Who seems not to have panned out (or else everyone involved is keeping very, very quiet). But that doesn’t mean that the nightmare can’t come true. Tim Buckley of Ctrl+Alt+Del offers one frightening possibility: (It’s one-panel piece, and … more…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: What if Disney got their mousy mitts on the Doctor?
My beef with Disney is by now well known, but it’s nothing to what it would be were The Mouse to take on my baby, Doctor Who. Then, we’re talking total war. io9 commenter Cristoval created a few concepts for what a Disney Doctor Who would look like (featured recently at io9). For one — … more…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: a show this popular inspires bizarre rumors (re Johnny Depp and a missing script)
I avoid posting Ain’t It Cool-type rumors or unsubstantiated gossip, but I think it’s worth pointing out that when it comes to a show with such a devoted cult following as Doctor Who, rumors are always rife and frequently must be eyed with deep skepticism. Like two that crossed my path in the last few … more…
question of the day: What’s your dream actor/director pairing, and what kind of movie would they make?
Hilarious headline in the Onion this week: Ridley Scott Trades Russell Crowe To Tim Burton For Johnny Depp And though I hate to quote an entire story, this one is so short: HOLLYWOOD, CA—Directors Ridley Scott and Tim Burton traded their favorite actors Wednesday, closing a deal in which Scott received Johnny Depp and Burton … more…
When You’re Strange (review)
Apparently filmmaker Tom DiCillo (Living in Oblivion) has nothing to say in his wonderfully surrealistic look at the Doors that hasn’t been said before about the band and their difficult and bemused lead singer, Jim Morrison. Apparently, well-informed fans are being left cold by the film, even if they are momentarily intrigued by the never-before-seen … more…
