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Kim Voynar, one of the smartest women writing about movies at the moment, wonders whether women will want to see Watchmen. Much of what she writes, in her extended musings on movie violence, context, and whether female moviegoers approach cinematic violence (and cinematic superheroes) on a different level than male moviegoers do, sounds very much … more…
Dunno if you’ve heard, but apparently there’s a little superhero movie opening all over the world this Friday name of Watchmen. You’d think teh Interwebs was nutso over comic book movies or sumthin’, cuz everyone’s falling all over themselves to be the first geek to post a review of the movie. If you’re a geek … more…
obsession: Doctor Who (always and forever) boyfriend: Peter Davison in The Last Detective at the moment (but pretty much forever in anything) psyched: Watchmen (woo-hoo!) dreading: Fired Up! (though it looks so bad I might skip it entirely) enemy: everyone responsible for New in Town (what were they thinking?)
Damn, it’s not embeddable, but you can watch it at the New York Times’ video subsite. Goode is the star of the new movie version of Bridehead Revisited, and he’s way more interesting than Charles Ryder, the character he plays in the film, who is as dull as dishwater. No, duller, actually. Plus, he talks … more…
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… This is playing with The Dark Knight — I dunno if it’s everywhere, but I did see it when I saw the Batman movie for the second time this weekend: It’s been a few years since I read Watchmen, but it seems to me that some … more…
That teaser trailer — you know the one I’m talking about — with the fat old ex-superhero struggling to get into his spandex costume? It left such a bad taste in my mouth whenever I contemplated the film that must go with it. I imagined a gang of former masked crusaders called out of happy retirement, reluctantly huffing and puffing their way back into action, replete with very unfunny cracks about getting fat and old, and probably with an even more unfunny getting-into-shape-a-la-*Rocky* sequence thrown in for good measure.
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