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By Jeff, on July 2nd, 2008 I’ve fallen really behind on posting lately. Given the upcoming holiday there probably won’t be much for the next few days either. But I wanted to quickly throw a few things out there in Sci-Fi and Entertainment news.
Hobbit films (report stolen from Slice of Sci-Fi):
Director Guillermo del Toro told reporters during a Hellboy press junket that his first “The Hobbit” movie will stick strictly to J.R.R. Tolkien’s original “The Hobbit” material, however, the . . . → Read More: Quick Notes on Entertainment News
By Jeff, on June 21st, 2008 Back in April I wrote a list of the movies I want to see this year in the theater. So far I’ve seen all the ones I called as a must-see and missed all the others (which, so far, is just Speed Racer).
When I go to the theater, I love to see the previews. I consider them an art unto themselves. It can’t be easy to tease an unfinished movie by pulling out the . . . → Read More: Summer Movie List 2 – Revenge of the Trailer
By Jeff, on May 15th, 2008 The networks released their schedules for next year this week. No surprise: Smallville and 24 are both reappearing in the schedules. However, there has been surprising news/rumors about both shows…
24
Jack is back, and as an appeasement from the long wait since last season, we get a 2-hour movie on November 23rd:
24 is also scheduled to return full time in January of 2009. (A spoiler is below.) However, to reward fans who have . . . → Read More: TV updates: 24 and Smallville (w/spoilers)
By Jeff, on March 5th, 2008 Literary characters – some obscure, some well known – abound in these graphic novels. The main players (Allan Quartermain, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and – to a much lesser extent – Mina Harker/Murray) are well established, and the gimmick of putting them together is the initial draw. It took me a little effort to get into the style of faux-1800s dialogue, especially in the narrative boxes, but I quite . . . → Read More: The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 and 2
By Jeff, on November 23rd, 2007 Bryce Zabel’s FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: Santa’s 2007 Movie Smackdown!
Bryce has put together a fun poll on which Christmas/holiday movies make the cut for annual viewing. Which ones can you stand to watch year after year?
My pick that didn’t make his critics’ list: Ernest Saves Christmas. I never fail to laugh at that film, and quote it year-round. “Nobody moves; nobody dies…” heh… I’m cracking up just thinking about it. It has heart, . . . → Read More: The Santa Smackdown!
By Jeff, on November 11th, 2007 The Second Chance DVD
Steve Taylor is no stranger to controversy. His music in the ’80s was unabashedly pointed at issues of hypocrisy and general laziness within Christian communities and its leaders (and it’s important to realize that he recognized himself as part of that community). He was willing to hold up a mirror for those who would listen to see their behavior and how it frequently ran contrary to the faith they professed. In . . . → Read More: Review: The Second Chance
By Jeff, on October 21st, 2007 (Yeah, I know I’m months behind 90% of the free world in seeing this one…)
Okay, obviously from the trailers the special effects on this movie were going to be top-notch. But was there really, as the characters are so fond of saying, “more than meets the eye” to this film? Did it have characters you care about? A plot?
Happily, yes, to an extent. It had a decent plot, nicely combining elements of the . . . → Read More: Review: Transformers
By Jeff, on September 18th, 2007 At first glance, Laws of Attraction is a typical romantic comedy. Guy and girl meet, they don’t get along, then they’re stuck together, then they fall in love. The difference here is in how the relationship is handled. This is not the standard RomCom. It’s got all the elements, including over-the-top secondary characters, but the way the lead characters ([tag]Pierce Brosnan[/tag] and [tag]Julianne Moore[/tag]) interact is much more real than in most movies of this . . . → Read More: Review: Laws of Attraction
By Jeff, on September 18th, 2007 ‘Highlander: The Source’ Final Nail in Franchise Coffin – OhmyNews International
I just had to pick a few of the favorite quotes from this review. Most of the reviews I’ve read recently have been profanity-laced, but all share the same emotion.
They’ve taken something that was once rousing and inventive and now have officially driven it right into the ground. … effects that are anything but special, and a bulky villain character that literally zips . . . → Read More: More on ‘Highlander: The Source’
By Jeff, on September 15th, 2007 In any Highlander movie, it’s expected: heads will roll. In this case, though, it should have been heads of the film’s creators.
Why would you go and make a movie, probably the last one the Highlander series will ever see, that sucks this badly?
The script was all but incoherent, none of the characters were sympathetic or even well-realized, and the fight scenes, with possibly one exception, were more special effect than skill.
This movie . . . → Read More: Review: Highlander: The Source
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