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Posterwire.com has picked the Hard Candy one-sheet for their Movie Poster of the Year Award. The brilliantly conceived poster is also one of the five overall finalist at the Internet Movie Poster Awards.
High-res Heroes goodness at sinful_caesar.
Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) is possibly first contender for the title role in Joss Whedon's Wonder Woman. (Moviehole)
Battlestar Galactica season 3 gag reel. All the things you'd expect: naked Baltar, people stacking it, fart jokes...and more some. *sniggers* (Link courtesy of liminalliz.)
This might be amusing for Holmes-Russellians. The Rap Sheet celebrated Sherlock Holmes' birthday. According to American Sherlockian Christopher Morley, the famous detective was born January 6, 1854.
Hannibal Rising, the digested read, by John Crace: "Hannibal smiled. He had got away with his greatest crime to date. A bestselling thriller with no thrills at all."
Tad Friend at the New Yorker reviews the first and second seasons of Rome (contains spoilers):
"[By mid-first season] the soft-core sex had largely fallen away, and the show found its subject: power. Not the most original take on Rome, perhaps, but one that the writers realized with increasing subtlety. The portly town crier (Ian McNeice) embodied the culture’s ingratiating hypocrisy: in a staccato manner reminiscent of Fox News, he delivered bulletins celebrating the latest battle’s victors and lambasting last week’s heroes as traitors. Those who fell, fell hard. In the seventh episode, the defeated consul Pompey, dazed and suddenly bereft of his followers, scratched out troop movements in the dirt, trying to make Caesar’s rout of his forces at Pharsalus turn out otherwise. “That’s how the Republic died,” he murmured. [...]
"This season sees rapid shifts in Rome’s ruling authority-“Long live the Republic!” the town crier calls, hedging his bets-and a deepening of the show’s understanding of where power ultimately resides. In the world view of the Republic, curses were the court of last appeal; soon, Rome’s final word will belong to its Emperor. Power is not bestowed by the gods but seized by the ambitious. And it can even be used, we are rather brutally shown, to quell the unrest caused by other ambitious men-that is, for the public good. By challenging the liberal conviction that all power corrupts, the show, despite its flaws, has finally become a drama worthy of HBO’s name."