Monthly Archive: March 2011

Mar 16

Why Disney’s ‘Mars Needs Moms’ Bombed – The Hollywood Reporter

Why Disney’s ‘Mars Needs Moms’ Bombed – The Hollywood Reporter. This article touches on a few truths, but the biggest… that Zemeckis’ motion capture CGI is downright unsettling and not enjoyable to watch… needs a lot more hammering home. First, let’s discuss the other factors.  Promotion-wise, this film has also dropped the ball.  It’s based …

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Mar 07

Google celebrates Will Eisner’s 94th birthday

In times past I have justly ripped on Google for their inappropriate choice for respect in their tributes (as far tributes go, anyway) but as far I as know it is most appropriate to take the 94th day of annual commemoration of the birth of Spirit-ualist and graphic novelist extraordinaire and pay tribute to the …

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Mar 03

Who is Earl Norem?

When I was a child I owned a couple of Transformers Kids Stuff Big Looker storybooks. Sentimentality and giant transforming robots aside these particular books came with vinyl records playing the audio for the story. I owned When Continents Collide which can be seen as fairly terrible. The visual of the oil drilling oil ship …

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Mar 01

Newt Gingrich is married to a robot

Apparently he is, anyway. Here is proof 1. Here is proof 2. Here is proof 3. Apparently he is also running for President as a values candidate and that is supposed to be irony.

Mar 01

ABC interviews CBS actor Charlies Sheen

I don’t like watching the show.  I have watched it.  That is not important now. I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available because if you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.  What is important is that …

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