T2 Trainspotting movie review: GenX running out of steam but chugging on
The sparse, cold satisfaction that could be wrung from Trainspotting’s punk insolence has been replaced by an exhausted cynicism. Which is exactly right.
Jonny Lee Miller
QOTD: Which iconic (or imaginary) actor pairings would be fun to reverse?
Like how Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman could have swapped roles in Les Misérables and it would have worked just as well…
question of the day: How can we update archetypal stories and characters (such as Sherlock Holmes) to be more gender equitable?
Are there cases where it wouldn’t make the most sense to leave an entire story intact and simply change the protagonist’s gender? Would a better updating be retelling classic stories from the perspective of female characters who would have been on the periphery?
question of the day: What is the modern appeal of Sherlock Holmes?
Does his emotional coldness and daunting intellect have something to say to us that strikes a particular chord right now? Or is Holmes a perennial favorite that storytellers will be returning to and updating far into the future?
how Biff from Back to the Future deals with fans (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Dark Shadows (review)
Hoorah for Tim Burton and the new nadir of narcissistic awfulness he achieves here. Dark Shadows dares to be nothing but the wisp of its own conceit.
trailer break: Danny Boyle’s ‘Frankenstein’ at London’s National Theatre
It’s theater, but it’s cinema, too…
