Skull session update
Moves that Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is better than:
1. Any of the Brendan Fraser Mummy films
2. Any National Treasure film
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. George Lucas’s first two Star Wars prequels
5. Any Harrison Ford film since Air Force One
6. Live Free or Die Hard
With that in mind, here’s my review of Indiana Jones and the Kindgom of the Crystal Skull. As an Indy tie-in, I have an interview this week with area comic book illustrator Steve Scott, who’s drawing a tie-in comic called Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods.
Also this week I have a preview/appreciation of The Kids in the Hall, for which I interviewed Mark McKinney. I also did a PopSmart entry on Mark McKinney’s recurring characters (with plenty of sweetening from YouTube). And I review Out of Hand Theater’s dance piece Schreibstück (ask for it by name!) and Pedro Almodovar’s Live Flesh, which is playing at the High Museum May 22 as part of a “Starring Javier Bardem” series. It was a pleasure to see, because I’ve actually seen very few Almodovar films.
Speaking of Mr. Spielberg, I don’t know what I think of the plans for a Spielberg/Peter Jackson trilogy of films based on the ‘Tintin’ comics. I’m somewhat familiar with Tintin - I never saw it growing up, but have looked at it a little bit recently, from the library. To me, it’s like seeing two of the greatest pop/action/epic filmmakers of our time collaborating on the adventures of Scrooge McDuck. Not that Carl Barks’ Scrooge McDuck adventures aren’t fun classics (they actually influenced the tomb-raiding stuff in Indiana Jones):
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/05/20/steven-spielberg-and-peter-jackson-might-co-direct-third-tintin/
1. Any of the Brendan Fraser Mummy films
2. Any National Treasure film
3. The Da Vinci Code
4. George Lucas’s first two Star Wars prequels
5. Any Harrison Ford film since Air Force One
6. Live Free or Die Hard
With that in mind, here’s my review of Indiana Jones and the Kindgom of the Crystal Skull. As an Indy tie-in, I have an interview this week with area comic book illustrator Steve Scott, who’s drawing a tie-in comic called Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods.
Also this week I have a preview/appreciation of The Kids in the Hall, for which I interviewed Mark McKinney. I also did a PopSmart entry on Mark McKinney’s recurring characters (with plenty of sweetening from YouTube). And I review Out of Hand Theater’s dance piece Schreibstück (ask for it by name!) and Pedro Almodovar’s Live Flesh, which is playing at the High Museum May 22 as part of a “Starring Javier Bardem” series. It was a pleasure to see, because I’ve actually seen very few Almodovar films.
Speaking of Mr. Spielberg, I don’t know what I think of the plans for a Spielberg/Peter Jackson trilogy of films based on the ‘Tintin’ comics. I’m somewhat familiar with Tintin - I never saw it growing up, but have looked at it a little bit recently, from the library. To me, it’s like seeing two of the greatest pop/action/epic filmmakers of our time collaborating on the adventures of Scrooge McDuck. Not that Carl Barks’ Scrooge McDuck adventures aren’t fun classics (they actually influenced the tomb-raiding stuff in Indiana Jones):
http://www.cinematical.com/2008/05/20/steven-spielberg-and-peter-jackson-might-co-direct-third-tintin/