watch it: retro 1970s Burger King/Star Wars commercial
We totally had these glasses:
Star Wars
question of the day: What is Bryan Singer gonna do with ‘Battlestar Galactica’?
Have you heard? Universal has signed Bryan Singer — of Valkyrie, X-Men, and The Usual Suspects fame — to produce and direct a Battlestar Galactica feature film. I wrote a bit about my thoughts on this prospect yesterday over at Film.com. The gist: I don’t see how this can end up as anything other than … more…
Life on Mars: Series 1 (U.K. version) (review)
This is a spoiler-free introduction to the original British series, for those who may not be familiar with it. I’ll soon start spoiler-heavy, episode-by-episode discussions of Series 1 for those already deeply into the show.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (review)
So, is this the fourth Harry Potter movie, or the fifth? It’s the sixth? Really, already? Ah, that’s the one where Harry goes to the magic school, which has yet another new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, right? And Harry fights the evil wizard?
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (review)
Like the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire, a preposterously perfect reflection of who we are: loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent… and in love with ourselves for it.
Star Trek (review)
Oh, J.J. Abrams! Dude! You sneak, you! Can I have your geek babies?
trailer break: ‘Fighting’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Oh, the poor baby cannot get by selling bootlegged DVDs on the sidewalks of big bad New York City? Wait! But then he is given the chance to do something much more illegal and dangerous by Obi Wan Kenobi (Terence Howard). “So wut they gots rulez?” “Yes, … more…
Super Capers (review)
This brutally stupid superhero sendup consistently mistakes wholesale theft for creative cleverness.
please kill me
More proof that Hollywood hates women: Ugh. Is there some new Photoshop filter called Skeevify that they used on Matthew McConaughey, or has he always been this vile and I’ve finally reached a tipping point in (just barely) tolerating it? Ghosts of Girlfriends Past? Really? Really: Celebrity photographer Connor Mead loves freedom, fun and women… … more…
more movie-ish stuff in the tube
An ad for an exhibit of movie sets, near the London Eye: Promoting the tube as a place to shoot movies, featuring lines of dialogue from a movie, and the location in the tube where it was shot: (Great campaign. Wish I’d seen more of these.) Not a movie, but a planetarium show. The important … more…
