While I was not exactly the audience they had in mind, three things in Hot Fuzz made me smile: Desk sergeant reading a Iain Banks novel. Pub playing Sgt. Rock (Is Going to Help Me). Skellingtons reference. Dana Stevens has the best summary of the movie: Hot Fuzz is like an Agatha Christie novel directed [...]
While I remain skeptical about the movie adaptation, the first-look footage from The Golden Compass is cool.
We’re watching Blood Rain, a murder mystery set in early 19th century Korea. Two inquisitors are sent by the king to an island of the coast, to investigate the sabotage of a ship full of tribute that burned the night before it set sail for the mainland. After the inquisitors arrive, a series of murders, [...]
Helen Mirren played Elizabeth I and II in a TV miniseries and a feature film. Tonight (15 Jan 2007), she received Golden Globe awards for both roles. If only there had been a science fiction film about HRH Elizabeth III made in 2006, then she could gone for the Royal Hat Trick.
From McSweeney’s imagined user guide to the iPhone: XVII. Using the iPhone to assist Nicole Kidman in playing a frankly commercial Mrs. Coulter in the new adaptation of The Golden Compass without losing the anti-Miltonian vibe or the stuff about the Magisterium. I don’t know if that’s possible, considering they threw away Stoppard’s script, and [...]
Cynthia and I noticed this last night when we went to see Happy Feet (fun movie, but see Liz’s comments.) We walked in to the theater at the end of a car ad. Bummer.