It’s fitting that “Nobody knows anything” got dropped as a banner slogan around here, because this year everybody knows at least one thing: Heath Ledger will be nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Done deal. Fait accompli. In a season when we’ll be stressing over all kinds of votes, one race is a virtual certainty. The same as last year when we...
Monthly Archives: July 2008
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEyJ2kdaaTQ[/youtube] “W” – Catch the crazy antics of Junior, Laura, Babs and Poppy! When it comes to family squabbling, this black sheep son is anything but sheepish! Sundays on the Lifetime Network. (8 PM, 7 PM Central) [youtube keeps shredding the trailer, but then it re-generates like a lizard's tail. You can...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTOMGgY7M_8[/youtube] Writer/Director Rian Johnson, whose 2005 debut Brick was a genre-twisting hard-boiled Teens Gone Noir thriller that won several Indie screenplay awards, follows up with a globe-trotting adventure caper — Cons Gone Rom-Com. The cast couldn’t be much cooler, and while the budget looks considerably...
Holy clone, the resemblance is so uncanny I can barely tell them apart. BATMAN: Tormented over the tragic mistakes he’s made. BUSH: Makes jokes about the tragic mistakes he’s made. BATMAN: Has Lucius Fox and Alfred to ensure he stays on the right track. BUSH: Has Karl Rove and Cheney to steer the country down the wrong track. BATMAN: Acting on false intelligence,...
“People of Berlin and people of the world, the scale of our challenge is great. The road ahead will be long. But I come before you to say that we are heirs to a struggle for freedom. We are a people of improbable hope with an eye towards future, with resolve in our heart. Let us remember this history, and answer our destiny and remake the world once again.”...
With the Catwoman topic generating 188 comments yesterday, all the terrific actresses mentioned had me hankering for more superheroine opportunities. Along comes ComicCon and delivers the red-hot news that Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan are on track for the 2009 release of Red Sonja (She Devil with a Sword). Rodriguez promises a dark tone with piles of bodies, and...
The last thing we want is to fan the flames on this, but since yesterday’s story broke with so few hard facts, it’s useful to see the story refined and clarified with any new info at all. Most importantly, the language of the complaint and possible eventual charges hinged on the word “assault,” which seems on the surface to be brutal — especially...