Good news, people. There’s going to be a Veronica Mars movie, a continuation of the mostly great 2005-07 TV series that featured Kristen Bell as a whipcrack-smart pixie detective who solves crimes while navigating the hells of high school and later college. Though the second season was a little bit of a comedown after the [...]
“Sweded” movies were born from the 2008 cult movie Be Kind Rewind, and novice filmmakers are busy making home-brewed versions of their favorite flicks still today. It’s no surprise that Die Hard is a popular target, with a bunch of sweded versions floating around the Net. These three are our favorites:
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, Joss Whedon’s four-year-old Web musical, has its TV debut tonight at 9 p.m. on The CW. If somehow you’ve never seen it, check it out as it’s seriously one of the best things the man has ever done. Whedon’s tale of a wannabe criminal mastermind (Neil Patrick Harris) trying to climb [...]
*Bonus points for nailing all three references. I don’t get the Felicia Day backlash. Too many times I see her name come up in my Twitter feed only to be followed by a string of “overrated”s and “I just don’t get the obsession with her”s. My first thought is: Are there really Felicia Day obsessives [...]
Here’s something unexpected that popped up online over the weekend. Thomas Jane, who as you may recall played raging Marvel Comics vigilante the Punisher in a shitty 2004 movie, has returned to the role in Dirty Laundry, an uber-violent 10-minute short film. Check it out: Now, narratively, the thing’s a little suspect. So Jane is [...]
Just a few weeks ago, Aaron Paul announced on his Twitter feed that he had opened an Instagram account (user name: glassofwhiskey). This is notable because Aaron Paul is one of the leads on Breaking Bad, the very best TV show currently in production. (Yeah, I know — last week’s Game of Thrones was all [...]
I’m only about 10 minutes into this but felt I had to post it here immediately because this much amazing cannot be contained. The clip below features a “radio play”-style version of the original Star Wars (or, as you kids call it, Episode IV: A New Hope) performed at this year’s Emerald City Comicon by [...]
The Avengers writer/director Joss Whedon has been making the media rounds lately, giving lots of interviews to both online sites and print publications for his upcoming Marvel superhero opus as well as the recently released The Cabin in the Woods. The resulting text has largely focused on those films but occasionally name-drops another upcoming project [...]
