Presented without further unnecessary commentary, the trailer for "K-11" - an apparently sleaze-tastic thriller set in a segregated gay/transgendered California prison ward, written and directed by one Lynne Stewart, mother of Krist...
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
The Hollywood Reporter - er... reports that director Duncan Jones, late of "Moon" and "Source Code" has landed the hypothetically coveted job of helming Legendary Pictures "Warcraft" movie; which is apparently still happening despite the property's pop-culture ubiquity seeming to have peaked a couple of years ago. In related news: Nerds? You are now out of excuses to have not already seen "Moon" and "Source Code."Good news for Jones, in any case, whose worked hard and definitely deserves the cache that'll come from helming a likely-successful blockbuster;...
So... I generally avoid using the Blog(s) for things like this, but wide nets need to be wide.I'm looking to get in touch with people in the book-publishing business, specifically video-gaming related stuff but really at this level any inroad would be a good inroad; but there's a pretty wide disconnect between the digital press world and the print world, so... don't really have any idea how to do that.BUT I'm betting I've got at least a few friends/followers/fans/colleagues reading these things who might have some tidbit of advice/direction/access...
Head's up: I'll be introducing an evening (6:30pm EST) screening of "The Avengers" on Saturday (Feb. 2nd) at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA. More details on the screening, part of The Brattle's 2012 Best Of series, can be found on their website.(UPDATE!) Also: I can also proudly announce that I'll be a guest at SGC 2013, June 21 - 23 at the Hyatt Regency Dallas in Dallas, ...
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
For those of you asking, YES I've seen Adam Quigley's "You Don't Understand 'Sucker Punch'" video on Slashfilm and YES the similarities to my own work from four months ago - starting from the title and down through... everything else, really - are hard to miss. But no, this isn't a Coulton/"Glee" thing; the movie has a pretty specific through-line, so there isn't anything "shady" about two critics coming to the same basic set of conclusions about it. Still, might as well watch them and judge for yourself...The Escapist : The Big Picture :...
Monday, 28 January 2013
I maintain that I haven't been unfair to "The Amazing Spider-Man." It was a bad film with an infuriating production history, and I covered both aspects as such - nothing more, nothing less. I've also continuously maintained that if the production of ASM2 made any moves that I thought sounded good, I'd say so.THIS, then, I will say makes me cautiously optimistic: THR reports that Paul Giamatti is being sought for "The Rhino." That's more like...
Sunday, 27 January 2013
hat-tip: RWWBlogJust in case you were expecting to feel good things about the state of humanity today, here are some delightful Christian radio-hosts with their thoughts on 21st century feminism:Two kinds of people in the world: Thinkers and Believers. You know where these guys line up. And please bear in mind - there are millions of people who line up right next to them... and they're all allowed to vote. Pleasant nightmar...
Friday, 25 January 2013
If you're the guy who thought "In Time" was too blunt about it's scifi-conceit-as-metaphor-for-classism angle, "Upside Down" is probably going to give you an anuerysm. See also: The guy who's angry about "Looper" being more interested in the plot/characters turns that could come from it's scenario than it was about explaining how it's time-travel worked.I'm tempted to say that the film - a star-crossed-lovers story set on two conjoined planets aligned so as to effectively be one-another's floor and ceiling where the wealthy live...
Hey, remember that time when Disney bought "Star Wars" and announced a new Trilogy right off the bat and we all got kind of excited because maybe they'd get a really good, talented, maybe even "visionary" filmmaker attached who could revive the franchise and take it in new, exciting and interesting directions?Well, so much for that idea...Oh, well. Nice thought while it lasted, though. Hey, did you watch the new AoTGO yet? Cause you totally still can...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
Remember what you were doing today, because some day your daughter may ask you. A little over an hour ago at an official press conference, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the U.S. Military's official ban on women serving in front-line combat roles has been lifted. The full rollout will be a three-year integration process, set to climax with the first (official) female combat troops appearing in 2016... which should make for some interesting juxtaposition, as it's still widely-expected that that same year will feature at least...
SOURCE: Latino ReviewLatino Review (who are really, really good at smuggling this kind of shit out of Warner Bros lately) has what purports to be a confirmed lineup for the surging-through-development "Justice League" movie. Drumroll, please...SUPERMAN, BATMAN, WONDER WOMAN, GREEN LANTERN and THE FLASH.Random statistics: 1 less total membership than The Avengers but same basic male/female ratio, 2 natural-born metahumans, 1 "created" metahuman, 2 "normal" humans - one with "powers" and one without, 3 with prior movies, 4 with prior...
Wednesday, 23 January 2013
Tuesday, 22 January 2013
One of the big thrills of my year thus far was A.) getting to meet and hang out with a bunch of the crew from TGWTG's side of the interwebs at MAGFest and B.) having everyone turn out to be super, super cool people. This is a weird business, and it's quietly exhilirating to be able to chill out, "vent" and talk-shop with people who otherwise occupy that nebulous space where you're simultaneously fans and colleagues of one-another. I bring this up as a segue into clarifying that, despite "knowing" (and finally not just in the digital sense) a...
For some reason we're getting two "Die Hard In The White House" movies this year, innevitably to be differentiated as "the one with the black president" and "the one with the white president." "Olympus Has Fallen," whose debut trailer showed up today, is the white president installment with Aaron Eckhart as POTUS, Gerard Butler as the lone Secret Service agent left in the danger zone and North(?) Korean Terrorists (seriously?) as the bad guys. Antoine Fuqua directs.The "black president" version is "White House Down," which comes later this year...
Exactly 40 years ago on this day, The United States made one of it's most landmark affirmations of being a nation of laws built not on superstition but rather on reason, reality and science.At the end of the day, there are two kinds of people: Thinkers and Believers. Today is the anniversary of a day when the Thinkers won out. The fight goes ...
Friday, 18 January 2013
Wednesday, 16 January 2013
I'd like to spend all day engaging people about this, but the fact is I have a shit-ton of deadline-driven work to do that's only going to get done if I got media-dark for a few hours. So this will have to be all from me about the big Obama gun laws speech today.I imagine the number-one thing anyone wants to hear from me is how I feel about the President calling for "more research into violent video-games" as part of his big set of plans/proposals. Honestly? I hated hearing it. It cuts me to the bone when otherwise intelligent, reasonable...
Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Monday, 14 January 2013
Lock n' load, Internet! Dust off all your best tired-ass "jokes" about speed-ramping, teal n' orange and "misogyny;" Disney/Lucasfilm have announced that Zack Snyder is doing a "Star Wars" movie....but it's NOT "Episode VII."In case you were under the impression that Disney wasn't planning to milk the ever-loving shit out of the malnourished and neglected cow it recently liberated from Skywalker Ranch; the big announcement here is that they're going to be making "Star Wars" Universe movies apart from the already-confirmed New Trilogy, and that...
Between Jodie Foster last night at the Globes and Quentin Tarantino a few days ago, 2013 is thus far a good year for movie legends finding highly-entertaining ways of saying "Stop asking about shit everyone already knows the answer to and no I'm not going to play along and give you your precious fucking soundbite/headline/etc anyway." ...aaaaand now I guess I have to be the asshole critic who can't resist wondering aloud where this charming, engaging, energetic version of Jodie Foster has BEEN given the forgettable to downright godawful movies...
Friday, 11 January 2013
As a film journalist who also does time on the "intereview-but-really-just-promotion-for-the-movie-and-traffic-bumping-celebrity-cameo-for-you" dancefloor, I'm probably supposed to feel some sort of sympathy or kinship with Krishnan Guru-Murthy in this clip, but... no. Fuck no. It is fucking awesome watching Quentin rear up in (wholly justified) self-assurance and "Fuck you, you and this production only exist because of people like me, I'm the Film God doing you favor being here and that was the line!" (paraphrased,...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
My friends at ScrewAttack have a show called "Death Battle." If you haven't been watching, the basic idea is: "Who would win?" nerd-debates + actual in-depth research + crazy-good production values, topped off with an animated short visualizing the projected result. Very much worth checking out.Today, they've finally taken up the "versus" question that's been topping these sorts of lists for the better part of two decades now: GOKU vs. SUPERMAN. Go. Watch. N...
Just got done watching what turned out to be bullshit-packed run of nominations, now it's time to go to bed, blog more later.For now... "Silver Linings Playbook," huh? Really? That's where the bar is now? Because we're all thrilled DeNiro decided to show up ambulatory and it turns out David O. Russell's taste in magical problem-solving imaginary girlfriends corresponds to that of lots of other industry people and movie critics?Fine. Great. Whatever. I look forward to equally-deserving two-part episodes of "Modern Family" and "Parenthood" getting...
Wednesday, 9 January 2013
So, yesterday I ran a Big Picture episode about "Amazing Spider-Man #700" and the subsequent "Superior Spider-Man" relaunch...SPOILERS FOR HERE ON:...in which I said that A.) I was digging at least the concept at play, i.e. that Peter Parker dies in ASM #700 with Doctor Octopus having taken over his body and intending to impersonate Spider-Man... but as a good guy because he'd also inherited Peter's memories/mind as well; and B.) That it was still not worth freaking out over since if it didn't work it'd stupid-easy for Marvel to just say "Hey,...
Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Monday, 7 January 2013
Friday, 4 January 2013
Hat-tip to io9There are, fundamentally, two kinds of people in the world: Thinkers and Believers.When I say that, I expect it to get your attention. That's why it's presented in such blunt, quasi-absolutist terms. I know the first thing that jumps into anyone's head when they see the world belief presented as an opposing-force to thought is that the presenter (me) is "attacking" or otherwise denigrating religious belief, which is one of the all-time great attention-getters (just ask Ricky Gervais.)Of course, those who bother to read past the slogan...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
My good friend and fellow BOFCA member Dan Kimmel has written his first fiction novel, a scifi/comedy called "Shh! It's a Secret," due to be released this month. It's now available for pre-orders, if anyone would like to take a look...Dan's a good guy, old-school scifi fan and more-than-generous helper to the newbie set in the Boston area movie-journalism game. Some of you might be familiar with his previous book, "Jar-Jar Binks Must Di...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013
(re-posted from The Other Blog, hat-tip: POLYGON.)This is how it begins...I "get" that grief is a powerful emotion that can override common sense and reason, even in the best of us. I understand that, therefore, we are expected to be deferential and sympathetic to even the most awkward, outlandish or uncomfortable expressions of grief: "Oh, it's alright. They're just upset. Let them vent." I get that... but there's a limit to everything. So, I have ZERO problem saying that the folks in Southington, Connecticut who've more-or-less decided...
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