omg: David Tennant joins ‘The Hobbit’!
Well, maybe…
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omg: David Tennant and Catherine Tate take on ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
And I’ve already got tix, for mid June…
omg: a woman playwright is finally produced at London’s Globe theater
And it’s been only 411 years since William Shakespeare helped found it.
omg: Lucas Lee vs. the world, in poster form
The best thing about *Scott Pilgrim vs. the World*? Chris Evans as Lucas Lee, one of Ramona’s “evil” exes… who just happens to be a mega movie star…
omg: Han Solo shoulda died in ‘Return of the Jedi’
A more emotionally nuanced ‘Return of the Jedi’? It coulda been…
omg: ‘Firefly’ characters in ‘Star Trek’ uniforms
It really does highlight how the same old character tropes recur again and again across ensemble adventure shows…
omg: somewhere in an alternate universe, Lisa Simpson is getting married today
Reader Martin reminds me that in a Simpsons-flavored parallel future-now, today — August 1, 2010 — was to have been the day that Lisa would have been marrying Hugh Parkfield…
omg: ‘All Creatures Great and Small Babies’ on its way
I’ve been rewatching *All Creatures Great and Small,* and I’m so happy to find that this 1970s-80s series holds up very well indeed.
omg: I’m suddenly totally psyched for ‘Battle: Los Angeles’
I hadn’t even heard of Battle: Los Angeles, scheduled for release in March 2011, till this morning, but now I can’t stop salivating at the thought of it. It’s not because of director Jonathan Liebesman, whose track record — The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Darkness Falls — does not inspire. Nor is it because … more…
omg: a modern Sherlock Holmes from Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss? I’m so there
Guardian, you had me at your headline: Sherlock Holmes is back… sending texts and using nicotine patches I had a similar idea years ago — I wanted to put Sherlock Holmes in New York’s East Village in the early 1990s, with bike messengers as the Baker Street Irregulars and faxes instead of telegrams — and … more…
