1. Who, who, thought it was a good idea to attach Lord of the Rings music to the Man of Steel trailer? (Yes, yes, I know that trailers regularly reuse music from previous movies since their own scores haven't been written yet, but this was a bad choice.)

2. Why, why, why, is anyone remaking Total RecallI realize that Hollywood is devoid of ideas ( Read more... )

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Over at Tor.com, I interrupt my series of Oz and Oz related posts to um, write about a planned upcoming Oz movie. Er.

I see an upcoming Oz film is already having problems with cats.

Oh. My. God. Guys.

I have just seen the most marvelous thing: the trailer for Unstoppable, a literal - literal - train wreck of a film. It was spawned, clearly, in a meeting filled with Hollywood executives, that I can only imagine went something like this ( Read more... )

I said this was a bad idea from the beginning. I must admit, however, that until now I didn't realize just how bad ( Read more... )

From many of you: Joss Whedon will be directing the next Avengers movie.

And like pretty much all of you who directed me to this news tidbit, I am...iffy. Two years ago I would have been enthusiastic and giggly and frankly rather annoyingly enthusiastic. But in the meantime, I have suffered through Dollhouse. My confidence, it shakes, even as my ( Read more... )

Bleck. Have just not been feeling well for the last few days. So some links for everyone:

1. If you missed the New York Times Magazine article about what a New Orleans hospital endured post Katrina, and the difficult choices its doctors and nurses made, it's here. A must read ( Read more... )

For those of you who feel that Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now With Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! is just not enough to fulfill your Jane Austen and mayhem lust, Hollywood, for once, has stepped forward to fulfill your needs, with this gem: Pride and Predator, where, we are assured, aliens will pop down and rain ( Read more... )