It's different."Intermission" does "Advice From a Fanboy" again.The Escapist : Escape to the Movies : Life of...
Friday, 30 November 2012
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Wednesday, 28 November 2012
UPDATED: Gunn has responded, clarified and effectively apologized on his Facebook page.ORIGINAL POST: I'm the first one to say/admit that "it was just a joke!" is more often than not a cheap dodge to get out of being called on saying something racist/sexist/etc; but the thing is... yes, there are times when I think that people go a little overboard being offended by dark/sleazy/sophmoric humor, often involving things being taken out of context - particularly in cases where the joke is at least in-part supposed to be on the teller (re: "look...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Monday, 26 November 2012
Short version: HitFix's Drew McWeeny says that Warner Bros. is inching towards making a move that could kneecap their still-shaky "Justice League" project before it even gets off the ground. Long version? Read on...I find myself the odd man out when it comes to the production of "The Man of Steel." The general thread that runs through a lot of the film-geek press regarding the production is that it's in constant peril of being "ruined" by the presence of Zack Snyder as director, and that we are to take comfort in the presence of producer/story-approver...
Friday, 23 November 2012
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Well, that's that, then.Just over a week since the first man who accused Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of engaging him in an "innapropriate relationship" as a teenager recanted, a second accusation has arisen with implications that more are on the way. Citing that his personal life has become a "distraction," Clash has resigned from Sesame Workshop as of today.Sad day for kids everywhere. Ironically, until the documentary "Being Elmo" last year, Clash was as anonymous as most other muppet performers, meaning that - since Sesame Workshop has confirmed...
Saturday, 17 November 2012
What if "Harry Potter" and "Twilight" made a baby? Well, previously I'd have had to say that Harry Potter would play more like early-period Chris Claremont "X-Men" than it already does... but now I guess the more apt answer would simply be "The Mortal Instruments."I'd managed to be largely unaware of this most-recent YA Fiction phenomenon until just now, outside of the fact that it existed and that it was considered vaugely controversial for reasons I never bothered to look up, but it's yet another success story for a onetime...
Friday, 16 November 2012
Thursday, 15 November 2012
By all means, feel free to share around: The upside to being Kristen Stewart in the "Twilight" movies has always been that, since Bella never gets to do anything, she's thus far been spared any truly humiliating footage that will follow her around - unlike poor Taylor Lautner, who will still be associated with "Jacob is unhappy with his mail" when he's in his 70s.All that changes within the first few minutes of "Breaking Dawn: Part II," however...
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Sam Raimi's "Oz: The Great and Powerful," is officially a non-canonical prequel to Baum's original "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz;" but from the brand-new full trailer it's very apparent that they want audiences to take it as a prequel to the classic MGM film: Here's Oz as you (and your parents, and their parents...) grew up with it - right down to the black-and-white 'real world' - but now even bigger and realized with state-of-the-art FX and 3D cinematography.Given that, the powerful place the MGM "Oz" has in the cultural memories...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The New York Times reports that the yet-unnamed man who alleged that he'd engaged in innapropriate relationship while underage with Elmo voice/puppeteer Kevin Clash has recanted his accusations through his attorney.Good news for Clash, certainly, and it's done with quickly enough that the scandal didn't quite go irreparably memetic; but I get the sense Sesame Workshop is probably still going to dial it back on Elmo for just a bit. Still sucks, but could've shaken out a lot wor...
UPDATE: Owing to an error on my part, a bunch of comments that should've gone through got dumped into moderation. Should be fixed now, learning curves and all that.Assuming all the coding works out, this post and all others for the forseeable future will be running on a new commenting system called "Intense Debate," which I'm going to assume most web users are familiar with by now. This decision was made because it allows for last-resort measures such as banning IPs, usernames and emails from trolls, spammers, threadjackers and other abusive behaviors...
Monday, 12 November 2012
I'm just over the line of too old to have ever had any kind of serious affection for Elmo, as he wasn't the "big thing" on Sesame Street until years after I was too old to be watching. Never the less, my heart is breaking for the GenY folks who now have to go through this: Kevin Clash, the performer who has puppeteered and voiced the character since 1984 (recently the subject of the well-recieved documentary "Being Elmo"), has taken voluntary leave from the series in order to defend himself from allegations of an innapropriate relationship...
As you may have heard, "The Game OverThinker" is undergoing a bit of a shakeup. The original series has made the leap to Blip as "The Adventures of The Game OverThinker" - a trailer for which is now available at THIS link:Meanwhile, we also recently debuted the ALL-NEW spinoff series filling TGO's previous spot at ScrewAttack, OVERBYT...
Saturday, 10 November 2012
James Rolfe, aka "The Angry Video Game Nerd," is more or less the godfather of my entire ridiculous profession; and like a lot of us, he also started out as an aspiring filmmaker. Now, he's finally gone and parlayed his online persona into a feature film of his own making... and I think it looks pretty damn good:Yes, fine - the "Gen-X geeks on a reference-ladden road trip" premise is by now a whole genre unto itself, but considering this is "The Movie" of the webseries that helped create a lot of the memetic in-jokes that seem to populate this...
Alright, people. This has to stop. Now. It's not fun or funny anymore.It has always been my policy on this blog that anyone can post anything they want, but I will not tolerate thread-jacking or harrassment of other commenters - any other commenters.I understand that, like any open forum, this site has it's trolls. I accept that as a reality and delete them where I find them. I understand that there are some regulars who see themselves as "helping" me by harrassing and picking on certain trolls, and while I appreciate the spirit the fact is it...
Friday, 9 November 2012
Rachel Maddow is my favorite TV News personality. Not necessarily because of her politics, but because I like the way she puts on a show: Funny without being unserious, serious without being maudlin, obsessed with the history/politics geek minutiae of the news business but without the unctuous, obnoxious macho swagger that you got from Keith Olbermann or Bill O'Reilly.I'll happily admit that she's as "biased" in favor of her own opinions (it's an editorial/opinion show, after all) as the likes of O'Reilly and Hannity are, but I'll offer sincerely...
Here's the new trailer for Tom Hooper's "Les Miserables" movie, the big hook of which (apart from "OMFGTHEYFINALLYDIDLESMISSQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!") is supposed to be that the singing was all done live on set for the cameras and mics, as opposed to ADR'd in later like usual. So... yeah. Lots of well-liked actors performing a visibly-taxing physical feat onscreen, adaptation of legendarily beloved novel/broadway mainstay, cue torrent of Osca...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
The hook of Max Brooks' "World War Z" was that it told a mostly conventional zombie movie story (zombies happen, things go bad) in the style of a historical narrative. Judging by it's trailer, "World War Z: The Movie" - which is already almost-garaunteed to be a huge pile of shit, BTW (seriously, your movie is so bad that a Damon Lindelof ending is going to HELP!? - has opted to just be a mostly conventional zombie movie. Brad Pitt stars, because other actors were starting to get jealous of him having been in nothing but really good movies...
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
The Future, as it must, has defeated The Past.Obama winning is important. His presidency being both historic AND successful is important to the narrative of history. But, more immediately, American voters have - whether by intent or incident - protected the Supreme Court from anti-choice, anti-science nominees for another four years and maybe longer... NOTHING was more important than that.However, other things of profound importance were either decided...
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