Archive for June, 2007:

Michael Bay is easily Distracted. »

I was contemplating some kind of run-up to the release of Transformers in which I’d deconstruct the various cinematic sins of Michael Bay, based on some of the more ridiculous elements of his other movies.
Fortunately, as is often the case in our beloved bloguverse – especially for someone who sits on their ideas way too [...]

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Eight things you’ve been dying to know about me. »

My blogging amigo Piper over at the wondrous Lazy Eye Theatre has officially tagged me with the 8 Things Meme in which I am compelled to reveal an octuplet of interesting and/or revealing things about myself because I know how much you care about me.
But of course, first we need to review the rules:

I have [...]

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Yes, Virginia, they’re actually shooting an Indiana Jones movie. »

I know I’ve been a rather lazy blogger lately, and all the usual excuses apply: I’m busy, I’m trying to feed my family, I’m on the run from Colombian drug lords, you know.
But to not post a new picture of Harrison Ford tricked out in his Indiana Jones gear on the set of next year’s [...]

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It’s quite possible that Javier Bardem is the last thing you’ll see before you die. »

Damn, but I love those Coen brothers!
Anne Thompson at Variety provides an exclusive preview trailer for the upcoming Coen brothers film No Country For Old Men, and this just looks like a whole barrel of effed-up fun, just like we’ve come to expect from Ethan and Joel.
Just listen to the crackling dialogue in this [...]

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Womb to Tomb – today with women who are action-y! »

Today the super-spectacular Film Experience Blog is hosting an Action Heroine blog-a-thon, which should be immediately visited and read and digested and commented upon and ejected throughout the bloguverse like so many bullet casings from Sarah Connor’s automatic rifle.
I thought I’d use the opportunity to bring back Womb to Tomb – and to point out [...]

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For Michael Bay, some gentle advice. »

Yesterday as I was scrubbing out the nozzles of my flamethrower, I came across a post from IDontLikeYouInThatWay.com in which we see “actress” Megan Fox doing the pouty thing at a foreign movie premiere while something grizzled and creaky that kind of resembles Michael Bay is propped up next to her.
Is this really Michael Bay? [...]

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A moron quartet and Seth Rogen: the Burbanked McBlockquote Roundtable. »

Take a bunch of celebrity quotes out of context, mix ‘em all up so that they’re either incomprehensible or deviantly amusing and what have you got? Why, it’s the becoming-ever-more-famous-in-my-fantasies Burbanked McBlockquote Interview!
Today we’ve got a special treat: it’s the first McBlockquote Roundtable in which we listen in as a handful of idiot summer [...]

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