NPR has an article on the touring production of King Lear that's currently playing (and sold out!) in New York ( Read more... )

Having read in an article on Outpost Gallifrey that Doctor Who would be shooting at Cinecitta Studios in September, I immediately became very excited. You see, I knew that Cinecitta was the studio where the BBC and HBO had previously shot the rather sumptuously designed Rome, and that the studio was interested in recouping costs by leasing the ( Read more... )

Karen Allen, who played Marion in Raiders of the Lost Ark, is set to make a return in the forthcoming fourth Indiana Jones movie!!!

This, combined with the rumor that has John Hurt playing none other than Abner Ravenwood (Marion's supposedly dead father) has me really excited for this thing to come out already. May 2008 can't get here soon enough!

According to Amazon.com, the town with the most pre-orders per capita for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is Falls Church, VA. Coming in close behind at #3 is Fairfax, followed by Vienna at #4. Being in McLean, I live to the immediate east of Vienna and the immediate west of Falls Church. Fairfax is just west of Vienna ( Read more... )

*tries to order printer cartridge from Dell*

*bangs head repeatedly on desk*

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Well, I just spent the last hour-and-a-half to two hours locked out of my apartment. Without a cellphone. In my pajamas.

That was fun.

From an Aint it Cool News review of the Transformers movie, regarding Michael Bay's respect for character drama:

TRANSFORMERS is the perfect fit for Bay's brand of ultra-slick action film, where character development doesn't just take a back seat to the special effects and rapid-fire editing; it's actually dragged along behind the movie like a ( Read more... )

Lionsgate will be releasing a two-disc DVD set of The Monster Squad on July 24th. Other children of the 80s might remember this movie, with a group of teens teaming up to battle the likes of Dracula, the Wolf Man, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Creature. My brothers and I used to rent it on VHS all the time. In all honesty, it's probably not a ( Read more... )

Steven Moffat's Blink was, quite simply, brilliant. It was so good, I hardly even care that the Doctor was only in it for about seven minutes -- Sally Sparrow was written and acted so well I found myself wishing she could join the TARDIS crew by the end of the episode. This, following Human Nature and The Family of Blood, has made this for me ( Read more... )