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Archive for July, 2007

Odds, Ends

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

LEONARD NIMOY SIGNED FOR NEXT STAR TREK MOVIE
Looks like we retired the Trek-O-Meter too soon.
LINSDAY LOHAN VIOLATES PAROLE, ARRESTED; BRITNEY SPEARS MELTDOWN AT PHOTO SHOOT
Honestly girls, there really IS such a thing as bad publicity.
DISNEY BANS SMOKING IN MOVIES
No, not in movie theatres, that’s your job. Disney characters are no longer allowed to smoke. Even [...]

Big, Wide Money

Friday, July 27th, 2007

There is one defining and inescapable detail common to the innumerable trailers and clips promoting The Simpsons Movie: they’re hard-matted for ‘Scope. True, this presentation confines the action to an area far less than half of the typical 4:3 television screen, this insistence on theatrical aspect ratio telegraphs the fact the movie is a MOVIE.
And [...]

Hang A Lantern On It

Friday, July 27th, 2007

As a fan of vintage television, I cannot resist WILD WILD WEST reruns. Episodes come in two basic flavors – black and white and color. The difference isn’t just cinematographical either. The black and white ones were weird but logical, an attempt to fit a James Bond character into an American western sensibility. The color [...]

Super Stars vs. Super Heroes

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Comic books as movies are pretty much the currency of the business these days. DC and Marvel Entertainment have development deals with every major studio on their slate for pretty much every character they own. I’ll offer the opinion that when comic book movies are done well and with respect to the source material they’re [...]