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I have discovered the weirdest, the most inexplicable Doctor Who-related thing ever on the Internet… and that’s saying something, considering the stuff that can be found on the Internet. John Odum, writing at The Huffington Post, is very excited about the prospect of a Doctor Who movie. He links to a report about this that … more…
Didja notice the MPAA rating on Alice in Wonderland? rated PG for fantasy action/violence involving scary images and situations, and for a smoking caterpillar Not just for smoking, which is a warning we see often enough these days. Alice doesn’t bother the MPAA merely for the fact that it contains smoking. It bothers the MPAA … more…
Came home this afternoon from a non-movie-related client meeting, flipped on the TV as background for the next few hours’ writing, and discovered an announcement from my cable company, Cablevision: • ABC is threatening to pull the plug on WABC-7 unless Cablevision and its customers agree to pay millions of dollars in new fees. Cablevision … more…
Thomas Doherty in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review is lamenting how “serious writers on film feel under siege, underappreciated, and underemployed”… which is something I not only sympathize with, I live it. It’s unbelievably disheartening to be looking for work — as I’ve been — and find only ads for “voluntary” jobs, or ones … more…
Speedy Gonzales: The Movie is in the planning stages. It’ll be a hybrid of live action and CGI. That’s bad, but it’s not all. Head for the hills, hide the children, and brace yourself: George Lopez, the unfunniest man in Hollywood, will be providing Senor Speedy’s voice, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But wait — … more…
It seems like everywhere I turned this week for movie news, it was all the same: So-and-so has signed on for a remake, a sequel, a prequel, a reboot, or a reimagining: Christopher Nolan is reinventing Superman… Martin Scorsese and Robert DeNiro are remaking Taxi Driver with Lars Von Trier… Wuthering Heights is getting the … more…
A sequel to Valentine’s Day had already been just about greenlit last week, before it raked in $63 million this past four-day holiday weekend, according to Mike Fleming at Deadline Hollywood: Little wonder Warner Bros’ New Line is in love with the Garry Marshall-directed Valentine’s Day because of its formula of cramming more than a … more…
Tom Charity, in his review of Valentine’s Day at CNN.com, makes the comparison that everyone is making: it’s an American version of Love Actually. It’s a totally fair criticism, but the way he does it is stupid, lazy, and just plain unfactual: The reality is forgettable, something like a Robert Altman movie without the calories, … more…
Marvel Comics has caved to right-wing whingers who don’t like that their behavior — calling Obama a Muslim terrorist socialist who isn’t even an American citizen; engaging in cluelessly and hence hilariously hypocritical protests (“government hands off my Medicare!”) — makes them prime targets for satire, as a recent Captain America story targeted them, according … more…
People, for no discernible reason, are putting Photoshop to purposes for which It Was Not Intended to create dubious works of surrealistic pop-culture art featuring, in the same composition, 1) Tom Selleck, 2) a waterfall, and 3) a sandwich. This is occurring at a Web site known as Selleck Waterfall Sandwich. Because “Penguin Knob Warbler” … more…
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