Have just noticed that the latest Fast and Furious instalment has Dwayne Johnson in it. Yes, Mr Johnson’s name is right up there with series (ir)regulars Paul Walker and Vin Diesel but I’ve never cared for the latter two in this series. But Mr Johnson – well, I’ve been a fan since Welcome to the [...]
Television Better Off Ted – Season 2 Breaking Bad – Seasons 1-3 Defying Gravity – Season 1 (a pox on whoever described it as “Greys Anatomy in space”) The Good Wife – Seasons 1-2 Glee – Season 1 Justified – Season 1 Little Dorrit (fedora-tip to The Big A for putting us onto this) Modern [...]
I changed my name when I was about twelve because I didn’t like being called Sue or Susie. I felt I needed a longer name because I was so tall. There’s more in this cool Esquire interview with the 5′ 11″ Sigourney Weaver, including: I was awfully good as the Cheshire Cat in “Alice in [...]
Has it been thirty years already? Gosh. The Chicago Tribune has a few fond reminiscences about shooting The Blues Brothers in Chicago. Remember the car chase through the mall? The arrival of the Blusemobile, at least three hundred bodies, fifteen horses, three Sherman tanks, three helicopters and three fire engines at the Daley Centre? All [...]
The Goddess likes Urbis and Beekeeper Journal while I like Empire and mourn the limited availability of Guns & Ammo. She listens to Greg Johnson and Jacqueline du Pre while I like to crank up some Wu or Nina Simone. She has a soft spot for Miss Marple while I’ll re-up with McNulty and friends [...]
I finished James Ellroy‘s The Big Nowhere a while back. I’ve read it a few times now. Don’t know if it’s my favourite of his “L.A. Quartet” but I do relish its quicksand plot, bastard cops, and Ellroy’s unremitting style. The end is so black that when I reach it, I immediately want to start [...]
Roger Ebert posted recently about his experience of writing a script for the Sex Pistols – or was it for the late Malcolm McLaren? Or Russ Meyer? Gold, it is. Last weekend, Mr Ebert very generously posted the script from that moment in time. Oh, what coulda bin.
Rom-coms are watched very infrequently at Fortress Mamea. They’re not my cuppa, really. I don’t know how but The Goddess and I watched one earlier in the year – I can’t remember what – and even though it was a pleasant enough experience as the two leads got into a clinch, the music rose and [...]
Burble. Screenwriter J D Shapiro apologises for Battlefield Earth. (Fedora-tip: WGGB Blog.) This. Is. SHATNER! (Fedora-tip: Alex Epstein.) Homicide: Life on the Street and The Wire scribe and producer, David Mills died suddenly last week. I didn’t know – I should’ve, really, but I didn’t know – that he was the one who penned the [...]
Hurm. This is spot-on: It seems to be cool at the moment to bag Avatar – something akin to the derision that accompanies Titanic, perhaps? – but I enjoyed it. Not only was I familiar with the original scriptment from way back but it transported me to a different reality for a couple of hours. [...]
