It’s my fondest hope that one day some kid writing a book report on the Harry Potter series will use these like Cliff’s Notes. Ramping up for the release of “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” this week, I did a five-part retrospective on five the main cast members and their characters for MTV News. … Read moreHarry Potter series for MTV News
“No. Not unless they’re librarians with machine guns. These men have seen combat… They’ll do.” –Professor Bruttenholm, B.P.R.D.: 1947 #1 My local shop was fresh out of DC’s new Wednesday Comics #1 this week, which I was quite looking forward to. I did grab five other books off the rack, however. For the record, I’m … Read moreWednesday Reactions: July 10, 2009
“Rand, the inventor of the philosophical system called Objectivism, never missed an episode of Charlie’s Angels. She was such a Fawcett fan, in fact, that she sought to cast the actress as the lead in a planned TV miniseries version of her best-known work, the gargantuan novel Atlas Shrugged.” Amy Wallace
Please excuse the cluttered website at the moment. I’m moving things around, but the goal right now is to tweak a theme into something I can harness multiple feeds with and streamline into one slick blog — thus the multiple-format posting today. We’re getting there.
Jeff Goldblum accepts his rumored death on The Colbert Report.
“Certainly, sir; and it has the advantage also of being in vogue amongst the less polished societies of the world. Every savage can dance. Why, I imagine even zombies could do it with some degree of success.” Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
• Can Longbox really stimulate the secondary market for comics? Rich Johnston’s Twinterview with Longbox founder Rantz Hoseley was one of the more interesting industry-related reads I had last week. Everyone in pamphlet comics has obviously been twitching for a smooth, accessibly platform to sell their content on and magically keep revenue up while losing … Read more2 questions to kick off the week: June 29, 2009
Good news from MTV-land this week. Over at MoviesBlog.MTV.com where you’ve been seeing me post about movies on a near daily basis this year, I’ll know be helming a new daily feature that kicked off today. It’s called “Twitter-Wood,” and I’ll be giving a quick look each day at a few movie-related tweets. Check out … Read moreRecent MTV Posts
I needed to sit on J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek for a few days to make sure this review was going to be fair. Three days later, it still sits respectably in fourth place on my all-time Trek films list. Just for reference, below it counting down are First Contact, Undiscovered Country, and Wrath of Khan. Star Trek is easily … Read more‘Star Trek’: The Birth of the Abrams Pocket Universe Reviewed
***SPOILER WARNING: AND THERE’S AT LEAST ONE BIG ONE*** This movie got a slow pitch from me as far as initial expectations were concerned. I wanted Die Hard with adamantium claws, big explosions, and some rough Wolverine vs. Sabretooth fights. Maybe some continuity-referential Easter eggs for bonus points. For the most part it delivered that … Read more‘X-Men Origins: Wolverine’ review