trailer break: ‘The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn’ teaser
This is some serious geekgasm: Written by Steven Moffat and Edgar Wright. Produced by Peter Jackson. Directed by Steven Spielberg.
Steven Spielberg
question of the day: So who *will* direct the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
On Friday I posted an April Fool’s QOTD in which I suggested that Michael Bay was about to begin production on a ten-part 3D miniseries version of Neil Gaimain’s novel American Gods. As it turns out, I was unwittingly echoing Gaiman, who only a week earlier had announced that, indeed, a movie based on the book is in the works…
trailer break: ‘Super 8’
Hey, I didn’t know J.J. Abrams was remaking The Goonies?
Adult Swim is killing; 80s flicks that shaped our world today; can gays play straight?; and more: leftover links
Plus: too many depressing links about the Charlie Sheen feeding frenzy…
question of the day: What vibe do you get off Steven Spielberg’s ‘Terra Nova’?
Somehow I missed the news last spring that Steven Spielberg and some creative folks from Star Trek and 24 were launching one of the most expensive science fiction TV series ever. But now Terra Nova is on the Fox broadcasting schedule — a two-hour preview will air on May 23 and May 24 before the show returns for 13 episodes in the fall of 2011 — and the anticipation (or the dread) is building…
the MPAA and male nudity; more battles between TV networks and cable providers; the Oscars race is on; more: leftover links
Plus: Javier Bardem to star in Chilean mine movie; Matt Damon not to star in the next Bourne movie; Napoleon Dynamite and How to Train Your Dragon going to TV; lots more…
omg: Shia LaBeouf takes the blame for sucky movies
Not all sucky movies, of course. And not even all the blame for the sucky movies he’s been involved with. But since when do Hollywood types ever admit to screwing up? The L.A. Times blog 24 Frames quotes the actor from a press conference at Cannes, discussing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal … more…
J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg: together again for the first time
When I was a kid and fell in love with movies and decided I wanted to make movies (an ambition that later morphed into writing about movies, so no, I’m not quite the cliché of the critic who’s a thwarted filmmaker), I decided that I wanted to be the next Steven Spielberg. His movies of … more…
Young Sherlock Holmes (review)
First thing the Robert Downey Jr. Sherlock Holmes made me think? (Okay, second thing, after ‘Sexiest Holmes evah!’) ‘I have got to see Young Sherlock Holmes again.’
Repo Men (review)
“Christ, have you seen what these assholes are doing with the idea I so generously bestowed upon them?” She didn’t quite throw *Repo Men* at me — for which I was grateful, because an enraged muse can hurl something as physically nebulous but as psychically powerful as a story with the force of a tornado — but she was about to if I didn’t calm her down.
