When last I tried my hand at assembling something approaching a definitive list of overused movie/TV music, I requested some assistance from you, the reader, in order to cover whatever egregious omissions I’d made during my initial compilation. I expected to miss an obvious title or two; I did not, however, figure I’d goof up … Continue reading
The Mummy 3, or as it’s been officially monikered, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor has officially been given a full plot synopsis. It’s a plot you may be familiar with, but a plot nonetheless. Thanks to an update on Rob Cohen’s production blog, you’ll be comforted to know the threequel’s narrative isn’t straying … Continue reading
Poor guy. I would have ended the movie like that too…
Way back at the turn of the century, Edward Stratemeyer decided to apply the Horatio Alger model of writing and publishing to children’s books. The result was one series after another of ghostwritten, unified young adult novel series that provided a model for children’s fiction that lived for years. Tom Slade, Nancy Drew, The Bobbsey … Continue reading
A couple years ago I picked up the DVD for Shinji Aramaki’s 2004 take on Masamune Shirow’s Appleseed, based purely on the spectacle of the trailers shootin’, explodin’ and robot violence. I’m no manga/anime conniseur but yeah, I’m a sucker like that. The film attempted full integration of manga style while overlaying the traditionally animated … Continue reading
It’s a good day when I can bring you one thing from the Apatowverse, and today I’m bringing you three things. The greatness of this offsets your dog/mother/baby dying or you getting dumped for a guy with a fauxhawk* or those weeping red sores on your genitals. Yes, this is just that good. ITEM #1! … Continue reading
Empire Magazine is doing this neat thing where they’re slowly unveiling a new image of the Joker over the next few days. The only problem is that the image is the cover of their next issue, and someone has already sent out a jpg of that cover, thus killing their reveal. Sorry, good and liked … Continue reading
One cheer for email… and another 20 by way of my knobby knuckles to its digital privates. That’s about the ratio of good email I get to the ratio of promises to turn my junk into a sequel to Anaconda or tap the fast track to a life of wealth based on a degree I … Continue reading
I always wondered if some of those stolen Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull* pictures would ever hit the web. I always figured they would appear on one of those Russian film sites that seem operate as if they’re beholden to no copyright law known to God or man. Now three pictures … Continue reading
OK, that title is actually misleading since it’s obviously intended to suggest that the Weinstein Co. period drama Shanghai, starring a locked Gong Li and in talks John Cusack, is glossing off the non-success of Ang Lee’s recent wartime period flick. And for audiences it will seem that way, since Cusack would be an American … Continue reading