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Netflix subscribers will have to wait 28 days to rent Warner Bros.’ latest DVDs and blu-rays, according to the Associated Press. Or because someone thinks people who couldn’t be bothered to haul ass out to the multiplex to catch a flick won’t be perfectly content to wait a month for the DVD on Netflix. This … more…
The endless parade of remakes of old TV series is destined to continue for the foreseeable future, according to Bill Carter in The New York Times: Among the most prominent projects under consideration as new series next fall are these familiar names: “The Rockford Files” on NBC; “Charlie’s Angels” on ABC; and “Hawaii Five-O” on … more…
Today’s Hollywood has no place for personality, concludes Henry Stewart at The L Magazine. Or perhaps because a movie about a talking animal that doesn’t come with its own Happy Meal is just too weird. (Perhaps not coincidentally, Fantastic Mr. Fox did get the Happy Meal treatment in the U.K.… where it had grossed, before … more…
Sandra Bullock was the top moneymaking star of 2009, according to a poll of theater owners and film buyers. Or perhaps because The Proposal satisfied the unrequited romantic dreams of a generation of lonely women. This has been your WTF Thought for the Day. [my All About Steve review]
A homeopathic product for the relief of tinnitus — or ringing in the ears — is called Quietus… just like the legal suicide drug in Children of Men that despairing folk in a dying world take to gently off themselves from the horrors and hopelessness of everyday life. Or the name of the product could … more…
The trailer for Valentine’s Day hides the fact that Bradley Cooper is portraying a gay character. In fact, the trailer goes out of its way to imply that Cooper and Julia Roberts are gettin’ it on. Or perhaps it’s because someone thinks that girls don’t want to see OMG-megahottie Cooper as someone playing for the … more…
Rob Marshall is directing Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides (according to the IMDB). Or because Captain Jack Sparrow is a tortured genius who simply must express his pain via tunes designed to be showstopping to mask their banality. This has been your WTF Thought for the Day.
Failure to Launch is available on DVD in a “Special Collector’s Edition.” Or perhaps because of the profound insight into modern society it offers. This has been your WTF Thought for the Day.
How do you go from talking and joking to brain dead? How do you go from healthy and vital to… not? You’re 45 years old and you slip in some snow and you’re dead? WTF? I mean, what kind of universe do we live in where this can happen? I understand the medical stuff, the … more…
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