Trisha’s Take: Jane Pratt is back, but is she relevant?
Way back when I was a wee geekling, a series of books helped shape the notion in my head that I wanted to come to New York City and be a writer/publisher. One of them, a romance novel by Judith Krantz, was about the magazine publishing industry and a mythical new magazine called B&B which [...]
In: Columns · Tagged with: Jane Pratt, new media, this will either be awesome or awful
Musical Taste vs Trailer Watch: Fight for Your Right, Revisited
I…don’t really know what to say. This has an absurdly huge cast, is a sequel for a 25 year old music video, and could be truly amazing, or a spectacular miss. Either way, color me intrigued. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the red-band trailer for Fight for Your Right, Revisited. Fight for Your Right, [...]
In: Music, Trailers · Tagged with: Beastie Boys, Fight for Your Right Revisited, Music, music videos, Musical Taste, this will either be awesome or awful, Trailer Watch, Trailers
I Am Number Four director D.J. Caruso signs on to Preacher
After years in development hell, it looks like we may be finally going to Texas with Jesse, Tulip and Cassidy. According to THR’s Heat Vision Blog, I Am Number Four director D.J. Caruso has officially signed on to direct Preacher. The film follows the story of the Garth Ennis comic book series about a priest, Jesse Custer, on [...]
In: Movies, News · Tagged with: D.J Caruso, Garth Ennis, Preacher, this will either be awesome or awful
Trailer Watch: Rubber, your WTF-moment for the week
A horror(?) movie. Starring a telepathic tire. Named Robert….nevermind, just watch. According to the official synopsis on Trailer Addict: Rubber is the story of Robert, an inanimate tire that has been abandoned in the desert, and suddenly and inexplicably comes to life. As Robert roams the bleak landscape, he discovers that he possesses terrifying telepathic [...]
In: Movies, Trailers · Tagged with: Rubber, this will either be awesome or awful, Trailer Watch, wtf
Trailer Watch: Battle: Los Angeles
So after underwhelming with the first few trailers, it looks like Battle: Los Angeles (is that the title again? I can’t keep track), is finally hitting its stride. For years, there have been documented cases of UFO sightings around the world – Buenos Aires, Seoul, France, Germany, China. But in 2011, what were once just [...]
In: Movies, Trailers · Tagged with: Battle: Los Angeles, this will either be awesome or awful, Trailer Watch
Trailer Watch: “Dirk Gently”
I hate not knowing how I feel about something. Earlier today, a trailer dropped for BBC4′s upcoming Dirk Gently TV movie, based on the Douglas Adams detective novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. Stephen Mangan of “Free Agents” and “Green Wing” plays the titular character, an eccentric detective who solves his crimes based upon a [...]
In: Television: British and Canadian, Trailers · Tagged with: crime, dirk gently, Douglas Adams, this will either be awesome or awful
Sundance 2011: What looks interesting….and the other stuff too
Well, the Sundance Institute announced the line-up for its 2011 festival yesterday, and a lot of it is what you’d expect: love stories, intriguing documentaries, and genre busters. While I’ve never been to the festival, everything I’ve heard can be summed up in festival director John Cooper’s statement: The Festival is a challenge to narrowly [...]
In: Uncategorized · Tagged with: Sundance 2011, this will either be awesome or awful
Geekly Speaking About… “Top Gear USA” Episode 1
Thanks to some technical difficulties which were not present when we conducted our tech test about 1.5 hours before its premiere last night at 10:00 pm, we were unable to produce the audio for the live commentary between myself and Kara Dennison as we watched the first episode of the U.S. version of “Top Gear.” [...]
In: Opinions/Editorials, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: Adam Ferrara, Buzz Aldrin, liveblog, Rutledge Wood, Tanner Foust, this will either be awesome or awful, Top Gear U.S.A.
Trailer Watch: “Top Gear” USA
Oh dear. Mentioned during the “60 Minutes” segment on the original U.K. show, the U.S.-based version of the show will feature these three guys: Adam Ferrara: A comedian and actor, his biggest credit to date is starring as Chief Nelson on “Rescue Me.” Tanner Foust: A stunt driver whose credits include two of the The [...]
In: News, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: this will either be awesome or awful, Top Gear
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower coming to big and small screens
I am tempering my excitement. This has the potential to be absolutely amazing or a destructive travesty of one of modern fantasy’s epic works. In an exclusive over at Deadline, Universal has announced that they’ve acquired the rights to Stephen King’s The Dark Tower and will be turning the seven volume epic fantasy into a [...]
In: Books, Movies, News, Television: U.S.A. · Tagged with: based on a novel, Movies, Ron Howard, Stephen King, The Dark Tower, this will either be awesome or awful, TV