While I steadfastly avoided the reviews for Green Lantern which popped up today on the sites I usually go to (and the fact that they're not releasing reviews until the day before release is a bad sign of WB/DC's own confidence in their overly-promoted would-be blockbuster), just seeing the dire headlines was enough to confirm the worst: this film ( Read more... )

One of these days, I really need to work on a proper essay about Frank Oz's Little Shop of Horrors, to cover five topics in detail:

1.) Why it's one of the greatest movie musicals ever, even if the only time I ever hear it referenced in pop culture is via Family Guy (who've directly homaged it no less than three times ( Read more... )

The Coen Brothers' True Grit adaptation was a fine film, but I don't see what was so different from the original John Wayne film that justified the remake ( Read more... )

I spent two hours last night composing a list of the three things that happened over the past week which left me feeling very, very depressed as a comics fan. The post, long-ass as it is, remains unfinished. Maybe I'll get back to it if the bad mood hits again. And it might, depending on if anything happens next in regards to the whole debacle with ( Read more... )

First, Aaron Eckhart is "heartbroken" to learn that Nolan is definite on Harvey Dent being dead, and thus will not be in Dark Knight Rises. It's worth actually reading Eckhart's story of how he learned the news. I predict it'll launch a number of slash-fics ( Read more... )

You can tell a lot about a movie if enough of the right people call it "stupid ( Read more... )

THE WOLFMAN was terribly disappointing, particularly because I feel like I could just see all the good intentions scattered somewhere inside the horribly-edited mess of a film. Could a different cut salvage it? I'd love to think so, but I doubt it. Sigh. In fairness, the original WOLFMAN wasn't that great either, what with the stalker-tastic love ( Read more... )

"If a 3-D movie isn't as good in 2-D, how good, objectively, is it?"-- Roger Ebert, via Twitter ( Read more... )

Edgar Wright eulogizes the great Edward Woodward. To be followed up with Simon Pegg's own remembrances. I love how Pegg also notes, just as I do, that THE WICKER MAN* is a quasi-musical.

MGK's alternate-history timeline fic, SCENES FROM AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE THE BEATLES ACCEPTED LORNE MICHAELS' GENEROUS OFFER, is magnificent. I look ( Read more... )

My mother caught the middle of THE TRANSPORTER 2 on TV yesterday, and had to call me up to tell me how she was transfixed by this piece of glorious trash. So between that, and in celebration of CRANK 2: THE CRANKENING opening today, I present the following essay for your edification ( Read more... )