the MPAA’s preciousness strikes again (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Star Wars The Phantom Menace
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D (review)
It’s still a not very good movie. But… It’s still Star Wars.
watch it: awful kids featurette for Star Wars Episode I in 3D
If you were vacillating about seeing Star Wars Episode I The Phantom Menace in 3D, this will turn you off forever.
question of the day: How much can George Lucas alter ‘Star Wars’ before it’s no longer ‘Star Wars’?
I think we can agree that Star Wars is Lucas’s property to do whatever he wants with. But there must come a point at which Star Wars no longer feels like something the fans want to embrace.
Armond White makes Annette Bening cry; Fight Club: The Musical?; Wal-Mart woos NYC with ad campaign; more: leftover links
Plus: Will Natalie Portman’s pregnancy win her an Oscar?; watch out for ‘Ghost Rider 2’; accusations of fraud and corruption at the Golden Globes; more…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,’ ‘The Last Airbender,’ ‘Shrek Forever After,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE The Twilight Saga: Eclipse: A girl with no personality is unable to choose between the vampire she loves and the werewolf she loves. The invisible man was heartbroken. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • Hard Candy (2005): For a much better exploraton from director David Slade of … more…
trailer break: ‘The People vs George Lucas’ Official Teaser Trailer 1
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Did Lucas ruin our childhoods with the prequel trilogy? Is Jar Jar Binks the antichrist? Does any sane person believe Greedo shot first? These questions and others will be explored in this fans-talk-back documentary about George “Insert Expletive of Your Choice Here” Lucas. Producer Vanessa Philippe, in … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Fanboys,’ ‘Inkheart,’ ‘Two Lovers,’ ‘The Class’
Oh boy: Fanboys (opens in the U.S. on February 6; no U.K. release date has yet been announced) is about a buncha geeks who, a decade ago, made a pilgrimage to Skywalker Ranch to steal an early copy of The Phantom Menace. It’s sort of adorable, now, how much we all thought that movie wasn’t … more…
trailer break: ‘Star Trek’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… (Or, the Star Trek trailer at Apple Trailers: bigger, crisper, clearer.) The wait is not over! In a parallel universe where Paramount didn’t move the release date from now to next bloody summer, the wait is over. But not here. Not in this universe. In what … more…
Halloween (1978) (review)
Please don’t write into tell me how sophisticated Halloween actually is, because that’s a symptom of my third point, which is that I suspect the Halloween movies are like the Star Wars movies, in that the most fun thing about them isn’t what’s actually onscreen but the fannish discussions that happen offscreen about the interrelations between characters and the interconnections between events that loop through the entire series of films.
