Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Horror brand name Stephen King shared a stage in Toronto with director David Cronenberg, and dropped this tidbit in front of a a crowd and a (hint hint) filmmaker very good at horror. He's writing a sequel to The Shining,...
Ramblin' with Roger (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Hmm. It appears that the movie My One and Only is now available on DVD at least at Target and from Blockbuster. Odd, since I just saw it on Veterans Day at the Spectrum Theatre and in fact it is STILL playing there once a day. The movie is about Anne Deveraux (Renée Zellweger) who, discovering her philandering husband, Dan (Kevin Bacon) in the act, decides to take her two sons, George (Logan...
Watch Free TV Online (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Renee Zellweger stars as a mother who travels down the East Coast with her children as they look for a wealthy socialite to take care of them in this comedy based on a childhood recollection of actor George Hamilton. Richard Loncraine (FIREWALL) directs from a script by FORREST GUMP scribe Charlie Peters, with a supporting cast headed by Logan Lerman, Chris Noth, Steven Weber, Nick Stahl, and Kevin...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
THEN/NOW: Thomas Haden Church went from playing Lowell to ranching in Texas and starring in 'Spider-man 3.' What happened to the rest of the 'Wings' crew?
Vinyl Is Heavy (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
by Ryland Walker Knight —All things shining. Most of the week was spent not watching movies. But, as happens with an active calendar, the wait for the weekend brought me some special sights made richer by my recess. More Resnais, mostly, but also some time for some TV comedy. If you follow me on twitter ( @ryknight ), you know that I watched some Curb Your Enthusiasm earlier this week, but this...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
One of the trademarked mantras bleated daily (along with "America's the biggest..." and "America's the greatest...") is "When Americans put their minds to something there's...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Okay, okay. In response to this post , my in-box is full of angry brickbats from readers who liked the made-for-tv Shining movie. Apparently, King hated the Kubrick version -- which I think was one of the few Kubrick movies that wasn't overrated! -- and he, and quite a few King fans, think the miniseries was a more faithful adaptation of the book. Noted. Perhaps my curmudgeonly attitude is attributable...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
What an awful, awful idea. I had to look up something about The Shining and found out they made a remake with Steven Weber (the goofy ladies' man from Wings) in the Jack Nicholson role and Rebecca De Mornay in the Shelley Duvall part. Melvin Van Peeples picks up the torch from Scatman Crothers. It's like one of those fake movies Bill Murray previews at the beginning of Scrooged. Like this one: The...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Starring Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Daniel Craig, Tim Roth, Steve Buscemi, Ewan McGregor, Benecio Del Toro, Terry O'Quinn, Titus Welliver, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton, Brad Dourif, Esai Morales, Alan Ruck, Anthony Michael Hall, Martin Sheen, Billy Zane, Demi Moore, Ally Walker, Kelly Preston, Robert Patrick, Clancy Brown, Don Rickles, Michael Ironside, Miguel Ferrer, Paul Gleason, James Remar, William...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
CNN's in fourth place. No surprise there. Because by playing the other guy's game, you lose. It's the failure of many a formerly conscientious endeavor...
Zada News (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Stephen King’s Desperation (2006)-Very weak screen adaptation. [1] View company contact information for Desperation on IMDbPro. [2] Tak inhabits or possesses people or animals and, through the possessed ones, Tak wreaks havoc, seemingly just to exact revenge for having been buried, or just because this spirit is mean-spirited. [3] The old movie theater and jail within desperation were [...]
SpoilerTV (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
There were a lot of dirty tricks on TV this week. Jo Reynolds (Daphne Zuniga) cajoled poor Riley into posing topless on Melrose Place. House and Foreman conducted an autopsy on a living person. Gossip Girl's Chuck kissed a guy because of Blair's deception. CSI: Miami's Eric Delko tricked us all by slinking off into the night with barely any explanation. Welcome to this week's Top Moments: Dirty Tricks...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Has it ever occurred to the millions of emotionally charged opponents to the health care initiative that this entire kerfuffle might actually be a...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Americans like their approximations of reality. We have Las Vegas, which forsook its original cultural identity for amusement park approximations of Paris, New York and...
Omniorthogonal (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
For awhile now I've been saying that economists should be paying attention to open-source and other commons-based models of production. How often does a radically new way to organize production come along, after all? It seems like academic economists should be studying the hell out of it. There are some books by Yochai Benkler and Steven Weber but they barely scratch the surface. I was making this...
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