A Google map markup indicating the approximate path of the car chase in Bullitt. If you're not familiar or want a refresher course, here's the scene on YouTube.

So in a feat of odd age casting, Winona Ryder has been cast as Spock's mother in the JJ Abrams movie I've already been calling Star Trek: The Retcon. She is only six years older than the actor who is playing Spock, Heroes villain Zachary "Sylar" Quinto. Movie makeup magic has done the darndest things to solve that dilemma. So could filming her ( Read more... )

Nikki Fine at Deadline Hollywood Daily has posted a followup to her original remarks on Robinov and the "we won't do movies led by women" brouhaha. In short, I think Robinov's been taking lessons from politicians and the boycott concept is looking better and better. Finding out the Wonder Woman movie's been shelved until after they make a Justice ( Read more... )

In the "I hope it's a misquote, but a three-source misquote isn't likely" section of the Internet, I found this note from Deadline Hollywood Daily:

This comes to me from three different producers, so I know it's real: Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that "We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead".
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It is officially Too Damn Hot when my apartment's temperature peaks at 94° F.

My default userpic finally reflects my current hair color(s). A larger version is here. The pic was taken on my most recent date with the_ogre while we were at the beach near Montara ( Read more... )

This weekend, Netflix and OnDemand have been love. I saw the 1943 Heaven Can Wait thanks to the former. Don Ameche was a very handsome leading man, and Gene Tierney was radiant. The whole film was a manners piece of the nature you don't see made anymore. Of course, one couldn't be as accurate about the sexist nature of the period in a movie ( Read more... )

See Jet Li's Fearless.

I'm not kidding.

It's not because it's his last. It's because it's his best ever, bar none, period. And this is from someone who just about died over both Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero. I needed Kleenex at the end, and I have never said that about a martial arts film.

Besides, those twits with Jackass just beat ( Read more... )

Just got back from a date with blackfyr. We saw The Illusionist, which was very much worth it. I do love good stagecraft. Saying more would be cruel to anyone who hasn't seen it yet ( Read more... )

blackfyr and I put Star Trek: Nemesis into our Netflix queue a while back. It showed up over a month ago. We finally watched it tonight. Being on the "one DVD at a time program," I am now realizing that I paid $10 for a two-hour ST:TNG episode. And it's not even a very good one. I know, people said that. I'm a completist, damn it. Now I wish I wasn't ( Read more... )

I may be late to the game on this one, but I just realized something about the big-studio animated movies being produced in the United States. They don't have female protagonists anymore. And I don't mean female human. I mean of the female gender, period. The extreme example that pushed me over the edge on this one is Barnyard. If you look at still ( Read more... )