News Around the Net
If you’ve ever watched an enjoyed Star Trek: The Next Generation, then you must read this short blog post by Wil Wheaton about his e-mail exchange with a former Next Gen castmate. So funny!!
Speaking of Wil Wheaton, this behind-the-scenes pic from Stand By Me is wonderful. Makes me want to go re-watch that spectacular film right now.
I am counting the minutes until The Avengers opens. For all the Marvel Zombies out there, this interview with Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige is full of intriguing hints at the next few years of the Marvel movie universe. It’s a good read. Also a good read: this Q & A with Joss Whedon on reddit.
So, they’re really making a sequel to the 1988 film Twins? And Eddie Murphy will play the newly-discovered third sibling to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito? This is a joke, right? That can’t possibly be real, right??
I had quite a lot to say about Disney’s adaptation of John Carter. (Click here for my review.) I enjoyed the film far more than the horrible reviews and terrible box-office performance would suggest, but the film had some serious problems. I cited the senseless withholding of the tragedy in John Carter’s past until late in the film as an example. It would have FAR strengthened the story and the character had the audience UNDERSTOOD the reasons for John Carter’s behavior right from the beginning. Well, FILM CRITIC HULK over on badassdigest.com had a similar reaction, and he wrote a magnificent (albeit LENGTHY) dissection of John Carter’s story problems that focuses on precisely that example. It’s a great piece about film screen-writing and narrative, and is well worth a look.
My buddy Rabbi Ethan Linden has written a great review of The Hunger Games film, which you can check out here. My review will be posted on Friday!
Does Mel Gibson want to Kill Machete? The Sin City sequel, A Dame to Kill For, is finally actually happening?? Please don’t let me down, Robert Rodriguez!!
I really dug the “Franchise Me” (from CHUD.com) look back at the four Lethal Weapon films that just wrapped up. These articles are fantastic. Boy, I loved those Lethal Weapon films as a kid, but I haven’t seen them in years. I just haven’t had any real interest in re-watching them. Mel Gibson’s recent shenanigans haven’t helped. But reading those articles makes me wonder whether I’d still like those films if I watched them today…
A remake of Total Recall? Really? This trailer actually looks surprisingly OK, but it’s hard for me to imagine this is going to wind up being any good.
As for this trailer for Seth MacFarlane’s directorial debut, Ted, starring Mark Wahlberg and a profane talking teddy bear… I don’t know WHAT to make of that one!! The trailer made me laugh, I will say that.
Here’s one more trailer for you — the time-travel film Looper. I have high hopes for this one.
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