I was right. Tim's cast his SO Helena as the Queen of Hearts. Here's the interesting one, though. Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. He is going with the books, as he usually does. I would like to see Tim cast Pauley Perrette (NCIS's Abby Sciuto) as something, perhaps as Alice's sister? It's been a long time since I've read the book. Maybe she could ( Read more... )

I thought my fellow Johnny Depp fans might find this quite interesting. It's scary enough that Tim Burton is doing Alice in Wonderland. It will be much like the books, I think. He'll have to cast Helena as the Queen of Hearts. She would do well in that part. I'm not sure what to think of Johnny playing Tonto in Bruckheimer's The Lone Ranger. ( Read more... )

According to a Reuters article, Leo DiCrappio is producing a live action version of the Japanese animé, Akira. Um, okay, admittedly I've not watched the whole thing in one sitting, but I have never understood why Akira is the be all/end all of animé to Americans. I found the artwork below par (hell, Voltron was better), and the story was confusing ( Read more... )

Okay, so this morning I decided that I would watch some animé, including the movies I borrowed from naharina. I decided to start with Final Fantasy: Children of Advent. Bad idea. Well, good idea because it's a great movie, but bad idea because -and this is the embarrassing part- I cried through about a third of the movie. The movie was spectacular. The ( Read more... )

Why does getting into a car turn off the human brain? Or is it that these people think that everyone is a mind reader? (can you tell I had another idiot forget to use turn signals this morning?) I swear I hate people who just leisurely slide into your lane and then turn at the next road without a turn signal. Um, do I LOOK like a mind reader to you ( Read more... )

You really must quit doing all these memes that interest me. :-P

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