10 One Hit Wonders, Made by the Movies
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Music & Musicals, Fandom, Lists
Our pal Christopher Campbell has put together a pretty cool top ten list over at Spout Blog. Inspired by the frenzy surrounding Paramore, who has been fortunate enough to land two songs on the Twilight soundtrack, he’s put together a list of one hit wonders made by the […]
Read More..>>J. Michael Straczynski on ‘Forbidden Planet’ — For Real, This Time
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Scripts, Newsstand, Remakes and Sequels
The last time we heard from J. Michael Straczynski about his remake-but-not-really of The Forbidden Planet, it ended up being a lot of misquotes that the screenwriter quickly refuted. MTV caught up with him this week, and he explained his take on […]
Watchmen Video Journal #9: The Easter Eggs
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Action, Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery & Suspense, Warner Brothers, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Trailers and Clips
It’s the 6th of December, and that means a new Watchmen video diary. This is video #9, which actually freaks me out a little bit, because it seems like yesterday that I was posting the first one. […]
Read More..>>A Quick Peek at the New ‘Day the Earth Stood Still’ DVD
Posted on December 19, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Home Entertainment
No, not the remake — although I am getting a little more excited about the flick than I thought I would, plus it’s kinda silly to promote discussion on a film that isn’t out yet. I’m talking about the original 1951 science fiction classic The Day the Earth […]
Who Owns Mary Pickford’s Oscar?
Posted on December 1, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Celebrities and Controversy
It’s a thorny dilemma, both legally and morally — fittingly, the kind of story that, were it turned into a movie, might win a couple Oscars itself. The question is this: Does the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have the legal right to buy back an Oscar winner’s […]
Read More..>>Discuss: Are Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes Remaking ‘Last Tango in Paris’?
Posted on November 26, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Drama, Foreign Language, Romance, Celebrities and Controversy
Toss this one right into the “unproven” files, but it’s amusing enough to warrant some exploration: According to this tabloid (along with The Guardian and our pals at Spout), it seems that spouses Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes may be gearing up to remake Bernardo Bertolucci’s […]
Read More..>>Cinematical Seven: Outrageous Oscar Disqualifications
Posted on November 15, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Comedy, Documentary, Foreign Language, Independent, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, Cinematical Seven, Michael Moore, Oscar Watch
With the news that the musical score from The Dark Knight has been disqualified from Academy Awards consideration on the grounds that too many people were credited with composing it, outrage against the Academy’s stringent, complicated rules has […]
Read More..>>Discuss: What Film Best Captures the American Spirit?
Posted on November 5, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Drama, Fandom, Politics
The madness of Election Day is over — and I certainly hope you have your I Voted! sticker to prove you were there! No matter what your politics, you can’t deny that we saw one of the most exciting and historic elections in history. And whether today finds you ecstatic […]
Read More..>>‘Tintin’ Getting Only Two Films?
Posted on November 1, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Foreign Language, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Paramount, Sony, Universal, Celebrities and Controversy, Distribution, Family Films, DIY/Filmmaking, Newsstand, Dreamworks, Steven Spielberg, Peter Jackson, Movie Marketing, Comic/Superhero/Geek
You might remember that at the end of September, word came that Steven Spielberg was having trouble financing his Tintin trilogy. Universal Studios had passed on the […]
Discuss: Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
Posted on October 25, 2008 - Filed Under Classic | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Classics, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Warner Brothers
We studied it in high school, which made it amazingly boring. I tried again a few years later, but just couldn’t get into it. Saw it on the big screen about ten years ago and finally got what everyone was raving about … but still the film didn’t […]