Archive for the ‘Movies’ Category



• Review: Zack and Miri Make a Porno

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

We've secretly replaced Kevin Smith with Judd Apatow.  Let's see if anyone notices.

Ghostbusters 3

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Harold Ramis, via Sci Fi Wire: The concept is that the old Ghostbusters would appear in the film in some mentor capacity. Not much else to say at this point. Everyone is confident a decent script can be written, and I guess we'll take it from there. I would love a third ...

The Dark Knight: The Abridged Script

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Rod Hilton delivers concentrated Batman juice.

Clone Wars Review

Friday, August 15th, 2008

The first sentence of Entertainment Weekly's Clone Wars review really says everything I need to know about the movie: George Lucas is turning into the enemy of fun.

Indy IV on DVD

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Sci-Fi Wire has it that Indiana Jones and the Inexplicable Army of CGI Monkeys will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray stands on October 14th. Separately, a new box set of all four Indiana Jones films will be released as "The Complete Adventure Collection," which will include the first three films and the special ...

Amazon Prime

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Amazon Prime.  Quite possibly the best $79 I've ever spent. As an Amazon affiliate program member, I received an email this morning suggesting that I pimp the Amazon Prime service.  I have belonged to a lot of affiliate programs over the years, and I get these all the time.  Usually they ...

Wanted: The Abridged Script

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

This abridged script from The Editing Room is hardly even a joke.  The movie was exactly like this.

George Lucas on Indiana Jones

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

TimesOnline has an interesting interview with George Lucas. “If I can come up with another idea that they like, we’ll do another. Really, with the last one, Steven wasn’t that enthusiastic. I was trying to persuade him. But now Steve is more amenable to doing another one. Yet we still have the ...

Act Three

Friday, July 18th, 2008

Act three of Dr. Horrible.  Get it while it's hot.

Act 2

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

The second chapter of Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is now available.  It's also on iTunes, if you prefer to pay for it.

Coming Soon: SAG Strike

Friday, July 4th, 2008

Hollywood is determined to eat itself alive.  After the painful WGA strike, viewers were given precious little as shows like LOST wrapped up the season early, Heroes cut itself in half, and 24 just gave up entirely.  My hope is that this strike moves forward, dragging the industry down with ...

The Voice of Wall•e

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Interview with Ben Burtt -- the voice of Wall•e, and the man behind the sounds of Star Wars: When he’s going slowly, he makes a little whirring sound and that is the sound I heard it actually in a John Wayne movie called Island in the Sky on Turner Classic Movies. ...

The Clone Wars

Monday, June 30th, 2008

From a New York Times interview with George Lucas: For Mr. Lucas this was an opportunity to revisit imaginary turf that gives him great personal satisfaction. “Star Wars,” he said, is “a sandbox I love to play in.” “It’s not a matter of trying to prove anything to anybody,” he added. “I ...

Wall•e Virtual Tours

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Upcoming Pixar has posted three virtual tours of sets from Wall•e.  The attention to detail is remarkable.