Would you like to play a game? »

This isn’t a meme and it’s not a blogathon – yet it certainly owes its conventions to both of those. What I’d like to suggest here is to play a little game of something similar to what used to be called “Telephone“.
And what the hell, let’s call it Blogophone.
Here’s the idea: there will be a [...]

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Follow-up: John McClane’s super powers actually not quite as super as was previously thought. »

Last month I speculated about the progression of John McClane’s abilities to face down increasingly insurmountable obstacles over the course of four Die Hard movies. What inspired my rant was a particularly ridiculous screenshot that I had grabbed from one of the theatrical trailers for this summer’s Live Free Or Die Hard.
That still, in which [...]

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Today in Die Hard – the sequel’s still with us but Dwayne T. Robinson isn’t. »

The Hollywood Reporter tells us today that Kate Beckinsale’s husband Len Wiseman (who is also some kind of “director”) is in discussions to direct Die Hard 4. John McTiernan – the director who launched the spawning-many-imitators franchise 18 years ago and then rescued it from being Harlinned – didn’t return phone calls to see if [...]

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