Best. Strike Video. Ever So Far. See many, many more at United Hollywood, or all over YouTube. I have to admit, this is my favorite part of the WGA strike. Who needs TV when you’ve got all this free entertainment…
Category: movies
I Thought That Was Obvious
So I’ve been seeing ads everywhere for the movie remake of I Am Legend, for which the tagline is “The last man on Earth is not alone.” On its own, a catchy phrase. Makes you think a little bit. But…
13 Years Over, to be Exact
My hand stamp from tonight’s They Might Be Giants concert at The Fillmore. They are getting more like a “normal” band as they age, and I do miss the days when it was just two Johns and a bunch of…
Best Logline EVAR
Here’s the official marketing blurb for the movie Rogue (2007): “An American writer (Michael Vartan) goes on a wildlife boat tour in the Australian wetlands and is pleased to see that leading him into the wilderness is a hot tour…
Go See THE KING OF KONG
Opening this weekend at the Lumiere in SF and Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley: A most excellent documentary about two gamers competing for the world record high score on Donkey Kong! I saw a screening of the film today, and it’s…
Izzard and Hitchens: Separated At Birth?
Comedian Eddie Izzard on religion, from his 1999 show Dress to Kill: And Christopher Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, at Google last week: All things being equal, I’d rather pay to see Izzard than…
And speaking of food…
We saw Ratatouille tonight, and it did not disappoint. D didn’t enjoy it quite as much as I did, because–in her words–“It’s a rat!” Which I found amusing, because she and the protagonist rodent both enjoy heightened olfactory senses. She…
Transformers: Spectacularly Okay
That’s my two-word review, as requested by D when I came home from the movie on Tuesday. My biggest complaint (minor spoilers): Did anyone else notice that the final shot was set in virtually the same location as the infamous…
Jane Espenson’s Writing Exercise
I’m doing Script Frenzy this month, which means writing a 20,000-word screenplay in 30 days; and the magic words “quantity, not quality” also appeared in Jane’s “I Guess He Really Can’t Drive” blog post yesterday. So here I am to…