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I have a tendency to avoid blogging things if I think everyone’s already seen them. Sometimes I’m totally wrong, like with that damn fonts video I sent to Chuck a month or so ago. It was only kinda funny then, and now that it’s making the rounds, it’s getting annoying. But these two things are still cool! I swear! 1. Yeltsin video for “We Will Become a Factory” Continue reading
I haven’t been able to get this song out of my head for THREE DAYS. It’s from Hamlet 2, which opens tomorrow and promises to be hilarious, at least for certain folks. (No one else in the theater for Tropic Thunder on Monday laughed during this preview, but then, a considerable portion of that audience though the very funniest thing in Tropic was Jack Black’s elaborate description of the sex act he’d perform for the person who untied him from a tree, so … take that for whatever you think it’s worth.) Continue reading
… at least not if you watch this alternate ending. It’s not perfect, but it’s got balls. I like that. Continue reading
This one made me whimper aloud: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince pushed back to summer 2009. The details are all in that link, but here’s a key quote from the press release: Continue reading
It’s a bad sign when I haven’t got a single post in the recent blog posts column. I’ve got no excuse, really, except that I got blogged out — in the reading sense — during Comic-Con (which I really do prefer calling Nerd Prom). News! Trailers that stayed up for less than 24 hours! (Why is Emma Frost in Wolverine: Origins? Do I care? I love Emma Frost.) Twitter updates from attending friends! Emailing other friends to beg them to nab stuff for me! ACK! Continue reading
Oh, Disney. Via The Chicago Tribune: Chicago Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert and columnist Richard Roeper are cutting ties with the TV franchise that Disney-ABC Domestic Television has syndicated nationally for 22 years. Continue reading
So The Dark Knight Returns (damn, that’s a hard habit to break) made $18 million from midnight showings last night — er, this morning. That’s a lot of dollars. That’s more than some movies I could name made in their entire opening weekends. … and that’s all I’ve got. Until tomorrow, at least. Trying to hide from all the reviews out there gets more difficult by the minute. Continue reading
So Hellboy II: The Golden Army was entertaining, but not quite the rapturous comic-book movie experience I was hoping for. It just … missed a few turns on the narrative turnpike. But you know what was rapturously cool about it? The creatures. Which really should come as no surprise to anyone who saw Pan’s Labyrinth. Continue reading
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So, as we all know (right?), brilliant Buffy creator Joss Whedon has a new show in the works: Dollhouse, which I believe is scheduled to debut mid-season, in early 2009. (Do take a peek at BoingBoing’s take on Whedon fans’ nervousness re: its cancellation chances). A while back I posted a link to the Dollhouse trailer, and I do repeat myself here, but still: AWESOME. Continue reading