I want to apologize for my long absence. It was not out of laziness or a lack of things to write about. To make a long story short, you’ll understand if you know anyone that has suffered from pressure sores and if you research them, you’ll understand how bad they are. I have been bed-ridden … Continue reading
The last few weeks, we’ve seen a lot of 300. The studio is churning things out so fast, it’s hard to keep up. One poster iteration after another after a new trailer after another poster after another trailer. I’ve worried about overkill in posting these, but 300 is pretty highly anticipated by a lot of … Continue reading
NBC ordered full-season pick-ups last week for the 2007-2008 season last week for four of its hit shows—The Office, My Name is Earl, Heroes, and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Sorry, those of you waiting for Jim and Pam to get together, Earl to finish crossing things off his list, and Stabler to shoot … Continue reading
Mummies’ curses? Not so tough really.
As the first big ol’ movie to kick off the summer season, Spider-Man 3 is only three and a half months away. As the the line of demarcation between May 4 and Spidey fans grows thinner, the Spider-Man 3 website grows fatter. And by fatter I mean filled with all kinds of webby Spider-Fan minutia. … Continue reading
I want to aologize for the tardiness of this column. I was up at 7:45 this morning waiting with my laptop on my lap (which I hate to do for fear of burning "the boys"), and then nohing was happening on ABC at 8:05am. Then on the Oscar site, I saw PM listed as the … Continue reading
This contains no news. It is not terribly interesting. It’s just a bloggy recap of my first day in London. Read no further if you could care less. If you read further, don’t complain about a lack of relevance. All relevance has been carefully removed from this piece by experts. When I arrived in London, … Continue reading
One of the oddest choices of the Spider-Man franchise thus far has been the inclusion of Dr. Curt Connors, played by Dylan Baker (a man who has done a fantastic job of overcoming a very signature role of cinema’s creepiest pedophile in Happiness), in all three movies. Fans of the comics know that Dr. Connors … Continue reading
Rumpled and cynical, Clive Owen was like a noir character let loose in an apocalyptic landscape in Children of Men. The actor also explored some noir-ish territory in Sin City (and, to an extent, in the terrible Derailed) and even in Croupier, the movie that made his name in the US. Now he’s taking his … Continue reading
In October I went to Lake Tahoe, Nevada, to see Smokin’ Aces, Joe Carnahan’s follow-up to the great crime film Narc. I stayed in the hotel where the movie was shot, and after the screening I, along with a couple of other journalists, had dinner and then went gambling with Joe. We played blackjack until … Continue reading