What if the story of Jekyll and Hyde were based on a real person, a true case? And what if there were someone alive in the present day that had the same horrible curse? This is the premise of the new BBC mini-series Jekyll (premiering this Saturday on BBC America), written by Steven Moffat, the …
Monthly Archive: July 2007
Jul 30
One New Episode of Heroes Will Be Several Months Late
See, now this is exactly what I meant about not knowing what the big stories are while you’re at Comic Con. While I was outside of the room with thousands of others hoping in vain to get in to NBC’s Heroes panel, Comic Book Resources was inside reporting on what was going on. It’s Monday …
Jul 29
Cpl. Otter’s Tips for the Con
The San Diego Comic Con is both exhausting and exhilarating. There’s and overload of things to see and it seems like you get to see so very little of it. It is both very frustrating and a heck of a lot of fun. As I wrote before, when you’re actually here, you’re only able to …
Jul 28
Our own Cpl. Otter reports from Comic Con
Cpl. Otter doesn’t have the link to get in to the blog, so I’m reposting this here for him. I am here in San Diego for the Big Geek Weekend. I guess that makes me a big geek. Are there any other Monitor Dutiers here? I went Wednesday for Pre-view Night. On Thursday, I went …
Jul 28
The rape of our collective childhood continues
My biggest complaint about television cartoons is that they don’t allow you to see the humanoid animals eating poop. Thankfully, movies don’t have that limitation, which is why the same industry that brought you giant robots peeing can now show you Alvin the chipmunk eating poop. Thank God. I was worried they’d go for something …
Jul 27
Spock in Stereo
The casting for Spock in the upcoming Star Trek movie produced by J. J. Abrams was announced at comic-con yesterday. Leonard Nimoy will reprise his role and Zachary Quinto (Syler from HEROES) has been cast as the younger Spock. Abrams also announced that they are trying to figure a proper way to have William Shatner …
Jul 27
Batman: The Dark Knight Teaser Trailer online!
The Dark Knight Teaser Trailer hit YouTube…and was yanked before I could even link to it! However, Cinematical stayed on the case and followed along with DC’s Comic Con teaser game which eventually gives a link to the video. Now you can see it at WhySoSerious.com UPDATE: I should mention, it’s just a teaser trailer. …
Jul 27
Horton Fills 90 Minutes of Time
Jim Carrey returns to the world of Dr. Seuss. Thankfully, they didn’t try for a trifecta of gawrshawful live action adaptations of Mr. Geisel’s works; this one’s animated. It’s a start. Hopefully there won’t be any striped-hat-as-penis jokes this time. Honestly, the big problem with these full-length movie versions of Dr. Seuss books is NOT …
Jul 27
Get Smart
Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart? Looks like he manages to make it his own character while playing it true to the spirit of Don Adams. I was worried that he’d do an Adams impersonation. Anne Hathaway as agent 99 should be good; I’m a sucker for her. Too bad that the shoe phone thing is …
Jul 27
King of Kong
Not a new trailer, but I just discovered this one. It’s opening in theaters in three weeks.
Jul 27
This is the big geek weekend!
Comic Con in San Diego is this weekend, so plenty of movie companies have been saving their fanboy movie announcements for the convention. There will also be plenty of comic book news. My buddy Chuck Dixon has had a major announcement which he’s been keeping close to the vest…reportedly involving his writing an ongoing series …
Jul 27
Watchmen movie
The guy behind the “300″ movie adaptation is now tackling one o the most impossible-to-adapt comic books ever: “Watchmen” At the Comic Con they’ve announced the cast list. I didn’t even do any Googling of the names before posting this because I like my first reaction better: 5 of the 6 are unknowns to me, …
Jul 26
Doh!
The other day, I tried to post an image showing what I would look ‘Simpsonized. Somehow I screwed up -cough- lousy HTML.. ANYWAY, here is what I MEANT to post… And here’s the link… http://www.simpsonizeme.com/index.php#
Jul 23
Drew Carey is the new host of the Price is Right
The man himself, Bob Barker’s successor, just announced in on the Late Show. I love that.
Jul 22
The return of Celebrity Deathmatch?
“Get a toast together and make it quick We’ve gotta make room for Andy Dick…” “Christmas Time In Hell” I’ve been rejoicing at the story of Jon Lovitz giving a long-overdue beatdown to Andy Dick. Ostensibly, it was because Andy Dick had told Jon Lovitz the last time they’d met, “I put the Phil Hartman …
Jul 18
Nerds can murder
Over at penny-arcade I found a blog from the strip’s writer indicating that he could not stop being fascinated with this article. I read it. There’s a couple of interesting angles, including a proclaimed possibility of discrimination against nerds, which is proclaimed by the murder suspect in question. Purportedly the subject is also a big …
Jul 17
Rare glimpse of the brown tufted Alan Moore
The reclusive Alan Moore has decided to make a public appearance at the grand opening of a new American comic book shop. The nice thing is, we will all have the opportunity to attend, as it will be televised.
Jul 16
Liveblogging “Ghost Rider” pt. 5
An unexpected ending. Nice! Well, okay, not unexpected in that it’s an established character who can never have a resolution or there’d be no stories (i.e. sequels…cash). But the whole movie, Cage’s character is trying to find some way to escape the deal. Finally, the devil tells him that his work is finished and he’s …
Jul 16
Liveblogging “Ghost Rider” pt. 4
It was nice to see Blaze’s appreciation for the cops. The scene in jail was great. Oh great. The devil’s kid saw Ghost Rider and Simpson exchanging looks. He’s going to kidnap her, isn’t he?
Jul 16
Liveblogging “Ghost Rider” pt. 3
Sorry for the delay. Right in the middle of posting, Movable Type decided to upgrade its system! Thank goodness for the back button. I cannot remember the girlfriend’s name, but she just came into Blaze’s huge loft. (You’d think a celebrity would have raving fans camped outside. She found it easily enough; it must be …
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