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The New York Times this morning is running an article about how terrified everyone is about the poor prospects of the upcoming broadcast television season, which doesn’t begin till September but planning for which is all but done now: Each May, the big broadcast television networks invite advertisers, agency executives and affiliates to peek at … more…
Box office prognosticating is not something I want to become a regular thing here at FlickFilosopher.com, but I’m intrigued by the situation this weekend, with Star Trek returning for its second weekend as Angels & Demons opens. Trek has had an extraordinary midweek this week, earning almost $20 million from Monday through Wednesday. (Thursday’s numbers … more…
I keep seeing these ads all over New York — on the sides of buses, on bus shelters, in the subway — for Terminator Salvation that give equal headlining billing to Christian Bale and… Sam Worthington? Who? Every time I see one, I can’t help but think, Who the hell is Sam Worthington that he … more…
As a followup to yesterday’s “oh-no DVD of the week,” someone’s idea of an “ultimate sci-fi collection” of movies, and at the suggestion of bill in the comments there, here’s a simple question that’s tough to answer: What 10 or 15 movies belong in the ultimate scifi collection? Anything that leaves out The Adventures of … more…
Last week over at Film.com I wrote about a new technology that will enable a single DVD to hold what now would fill one hundred discs. A new golden age of pointless commentaries and utterly ignorable bonus features is upon us, like, maybe: George Lucas’ “fantasy” commentary track on The Phantom Menace, in which he … more…
I’ve been saying this for ages, that as much crap as there is on TV, there’s still too much stuff worth watching to be able to watch it all. And now someone else is saying it: Josef Adalian in TV Week: Truth is, there’s simply too much original content on TV these days. The explosion … more…
[warning: contains spoilers for the post-credit sequences of Wolverine… but you can read half this post before you encounter the spoilers, before which there’s another warning] I first learned about the alternative easter eggs for X-Men Origins: Wolverine in a post by Ryan Gilbey at the Guardian Film blog, which bears this headline: Why does … more…
J.J. Abrams is telling diehard Trekkies to avoid his new Star Trek reboot: “Don’t see the movie,” he has said. “You’ll just get angry. It is not Shatner playing Kirk, so I do apologize.” (I think he’s wrong about how serious fans will react, but I’ll get to that in my review, which I’ll post … more…
John Cleese has revealed that the BBC thought that the script for the first episode of Fawlty Towers — written by Cleese and his then-wife, Connie Booth (who played Polly on the show) was so “dire” that the show would be a disaster. Quoted in the Times of London, Cleese says: What happened was, Connie … more…
So Star Trek is back. Beam me right up. I saw J.J. Abrams’ reboot last night, and I cannot wait to see it again (which I’ll do on Saturday — already bought my ticket). And it’s got my head full of the original Trek again, which my foundling geekiness was nurtured on via afternoon reruns … more…
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