HBO’s Rome to become a big-screen Bible epic?
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I never saw the short-lived HBO series Rome (2005-2007), but I have long wanted to do so. And now I am more interested than ever, after reading an interview with series creator Bruno Heller in the Hollywood Reporter, in which he discusses how he hopes to wrap things up with a big-screen movie:
A feature […]
November. It’s A Wrap
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
November has been oddly S-T-R-E-S-S-f-u-lwhat with the joyous election, the Prop 8 nightmare, and the sudden emergence of most of the Oscar hopefuls (at least as far as critics screenings go. You still have to wait because Hollywood hates you and they’re into clusterf***ing) But just in case you’ve just gotten back from a […]
Read More..>>Satellite Nominations (FWIW)
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The Satellites have announced their nominations for this film year that’s still in progress. As per usual there are so many nominees that it’s hard to be generous about their award meaning much of anything to anyone outside of the actual nominees. With 12 nominees for both Actor and Actress there’s room for everyone (including […]
Read More..>>Today’s Oscar Puzzle: Supporting Actor 2008
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Your assignment: Look over my Supporting Actor prediction page. Return and answer me these questions 7:
Comedic Slot?Burn After Reading’s dumb jock Brad Pitt or Tropic Thunder’s offensively committed thespian Robert Downey Jr.? Or neither?
Australia’s Brandon Walters? Will awards bodies see this as merely natural screen presence… or a true acting turn?
Milk. How much supporting actor […]
‘Twilight’ Sequel to Shoot This March
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Remakes/Sequals | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Remakes and Sequels
Looks like Summit Entertainment isn’t wasting any time with the next Twilight movie, New Moon, based on the second book in Stephenie Meyers’ ultra popular series. Not only has it been reported that both Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are receiving a giant pay raise […]
Meg Ryan Wins Gold
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
And she’s just as confused as you are as to why. I mean… in the year of The Women?
But hey, it’s something for the mantle. Perhaps she’ll place this cute little deer on her mantle betwixt those creepy glass entombed masks that are the American Comedy Awards? Horrifying but true: Meg hasn’t even won […]
George Docherty, Peter Marshall and American religiosity in the 1950s.
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
The Rev. George M. Dochertydied this week at the age of 97. He is widely credited with giving a sermon in 1954 that inspired President Eisenhower and others to pass a law that year which added the words “under God” to the American Pledge of Allegiance.
Reading Docherty’s obituaries today, I was struck by two […]
Newsbites: The culture and religion edition!
Posted on November 30, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
1. Rich Raddon has resigned from his post as director of the Los Angeles Film Festival, following a couple weeks of controversy over his financial support for Proposition 8, the California law passed earlier this month that denies marriage rights to gay couples. Raddon is Mormon, so his support for that law — and the […]
Read More..>>15 films eligible for Best Documentary Feature
Posted on November 29, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
This news is almost two weeks old, now, but since I posted the short list of films that are eligible for the Oscar for Best Animated Feature, I figured I should also post the short list of films that are eligible for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature:
At the Death House Door
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Blessed Is […]
Still Digesting…
Posted on November 29, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
I guess I’m still in a sort of turkey/stuffing/pie coma. Talk amongst yourselves if you’ve anything cinematic to say…
Read More..>> — keep looking »