ya really can’t ask people to give you £25,000 for your fan fiction
“Kickstarter Pulls ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ Sequel.” Of course they do.
Maurice Sendak
George Lucas just invented hate-charity (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Immortals (review)
It’s like if Samwise Gamgee wrote fan fiction about Greek mythology, and then Vogue magazine’s most outré photographers did a huge photo spread based on that…
October 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but there’s all this vengeance to be doled out and all those injustices to be put right. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, … more…
Where the Wild Things Are (review)
Will there be a bigger disappointment for me this year than Spike Jonze’s *Where the Wild Things Are*? Gosh, I hope not: I’m not sure my heart could take it.
caption this! image from ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Just the thought of Spike Jonze doing Maurice Sendak has me doing a Snoopy dance: Warner Bros. tells us about the flick: Innovative director Spike Jonze collaborates … more…
question of the day: What children’s picture book would you most like to see made into a film?
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, based on the book by Judi Barrett and Ron Barrett [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.], opens next week. Spike Jonze’s take on Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] is coming soon. Movies based on children’s books are nothing new, but most of them are based … more…
trailer break: ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ teaser
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This must be one of the great trailers of all time. Just that tease in the beginning, showing us mere glimpses of the monster, the shadow and the silhouette of his horned head. And then it speaks! I didn’t have any idea what the monsters should sound … more…
