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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 book, perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with, and cast a production or recast a hypothetical remake with actors working today. This week: a hypothetical … more…
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Harry Potter has been sold out since Christmas and, well, that’s the only new movie opening everywhere. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, … more…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Really? Really? Another quirky indie romantic comedy that’s all sad and morose instead of upbeat and chirpy? Really? Actually, this is a wonderful movie. So wonderful that I wanna see it again, which I don’t usually want to do with romantic comedies. But there’s this one bit … more…
Still sorta a slow week. I should cherish this, especially with all the non-movie-related crap that is filling my head, unwanted, at the moment. But I don’t. I’d rather I had nothing at all to do but think about movies (and TV: Torchwood: Children of Earth is calling…) I’m most intrigued this week by Ink, … more…
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you neglected to study the conspiracy theories about the Vatican and secret medieval European societies and so you don’t know how to buy a ticket to that Tom Hanks movie. But you can have something close … more…
It’s still Thursday for a little while, and that means it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week I’m stretching a bit to include something that’s not quite 80s but impacted Gen Xers a lot as kids: A Hard Day’s Night, the 1964 Beatles movie that … more…
A moviegoing pal of mine calls it ‘Disney goosebumps,’ the awestruck, think-I’m-gonna-cry feeling evoked when the alchemy works and image and music fuse with your imagination and longing to transport you to another world.
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