Pardon the blasphemous headline, but it wrote itself, so I’m completely absolved of any offense. Now on to the news…From Cartoon Brew: As anticipated, Warner Bros.? The LEGO Movie, directed by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, destroyed the box office with a $69.1 million (estimated) opening. Not only did it become WB?s biggest animated opening […]
One of the disadvantages of Facebook specifically and the World Wide Tubes in general is that it subjects us Yanks to having overseas friends ask “What is wrong with you people?”Mostly when we shoot each other.Which I think means that they have come to grips with our imperialistic, xenophobic nation-building attacks on other nations and other […]
Okay, before I start blathering today, you have to go read Matt Bors’ review of the new GI Joe movie.Seriously. Go.I’ll wait….Was that awesome, or what?It brings up some great possibilities, only coincidentally related to the loss of Roger Ebert. But given the increasingly visual nature of our culture, given the decreasing attention span of our culture, […]
Real Life Adventures, on Hollywood’s tendency to wring every last nickel out of any concept that seems to work.As someone who assigns book reviews to young writers, I’m very much aware of how book publishers pile on a successful theme to attract the teen and preteen market. It’s as though they send dump trucks to […]