question of the day: Do you want to know what people are saying about the new...
J.J. Abrams’ new Star Trek reboot had a secret screening in Austin a few weeks ago, which sent Trekkies/Trekkers screaming across Twitter about the film. And now the movie has had its premiere in...
View Articlequestion of the day: Who’s your favorite ‘Star Trek’ character?
So Star Trek is back. Beam me right up. I saw J.J. Abrams’ reboot last night, and I cannot wait to see it again (which I’ll do on Saturday — already bought my ticket). And it’s got my head full of the...
View Articlequestion of the day: What do filmmakers owe the fans of favorite universes?
J.J. Abrams is telling diehard Trekkies to avoid his new Star Trek reboot: “Don’t see the movie,” he has said. “You’ll just get angry. It is not Shatner playing Kirk, so I do apologize.” (I think he’s...
View ArticleStar Trek (review)
Oh, J.J. Abrams! Dude! You sneak, you! Can I have your geek babies? (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleMay 8: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We all know how it is. You’d like to get out to see a new movie this weekend, but you dread heading to the multplex in case it’s clogged with people in Spock ears and Klingon foreheads, and anyway, Mom...
View Articleeverybody loves Spock
It’s easy to see why: But still… It’s one thing when everyone’s fallen so madly in love with Zachary Quinto’s Spock in the new Star Trek flick that Entertainment Weekly writers are blogging about their...
View ArticleNorth American box office: ‘Up’ down, gets a headache from ‘The Hangover’
1. The Hangover: $44.99 million (NEW) 2. Up: $44.14 million (2nd week; drops 35%) 3. Land of the Lost: $18.8 million (NEW) 4. Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian: $14.6 million (3rd week;...
View ArticleJ.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg: together again for the first time
When I was a kid and fell in love with movies and decided I wanted to make movies (an ambition that later morphed into writing about movies, so no, I’m not quite the cliché of the critic who’s a...
View Articlequestion of the day: Ron Howard’s Stephen King’s ‘The Dark Tower’? No,...
Have you read any of Stephen King’s series The Dark Tower? No? Imagine if Clint Eastwood and James Joyce collaborated on a trippy fantasy about the mystical quest of a gunslinger. It’s weird and...
View ArticlePolanski speaks (but doesn’t apologize); sexist iPad ads?; Mr. Rogers is...
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post....
View Articlewhat would Mark Twain do?; Michael Moore joins the Oscar board; Sam...
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post....
View Articlequick list: five really relevant filmmakers working now
With a look at balancing brains and appeal and impact, here are the filmmakers who are driving what we watch, how we talk about it, and what’s to come. (please click through for commenting, social...
View Articlewhat you don’t understand about Twitter; Facebook defriends Roger Ebert;...
Plus: Katie Holmes smeared by mean ol’ gossip rags; Syfy picks up Web series The Mercury Men; the Internet stole Obama’s State of the Union address; more... (please click through for commenting, social...
View Articletrailer break: ‘Super 8’
Hey, I didn’t know J.J. Abrams was remaking The Goonies? (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleTyler Perry tells Spike Lee to go to hell; an apology for ‘Superman Returns’;...
Plus: Even rightwing bloggers admit Atlas Shrugged sucks; Restrepo director Tim Hetherington killed covering fighting in Libya; Jodie Foster on yet another way Hollywood hates women... (please click...
View ArticleClose Encounters of the Third Kind (retro trailer)
I can’t wait to see Super 8, J.J. Abrams’ tribute to Steven Spielberg. For now, I have to make do with some actual Spielberg... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleSuper 8 (review)
Is it weird that the overwhelming feeling I’m left with after Super 8 is one of a nostalgic melancholy? (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleSuper 8 (great movie quotes)
“It’s on the news. That means it’s real.” --Charles (Riley Griffiths), and more (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View Articlequestion of the day: Is J.J. Abrams being a troll when he says, “If you’re so...
Seems to me that Abrams is engaging in one of the classic gambits of the Internet troll... (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
View ArticleThe Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (review)
A soulless CGI-animated remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Without a Harrison Ford to smirk and snark his way through it, natch. (please click through for commenting, social networking, tags, and more)
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