“Spielberg, Jackson team for Tintin”
Duo pact for adventure trilogy:
Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson are teaming to direct and produce three back-to-back features based on Georges Remi's beloved Belgian comic-strip hero Tintin for DreamWorks. Pics will be produced in...
Adult Swim Report 5/13
In addition to the premiere of THE DRINKY CROW SHOW, last night boasted several new shows on Adult Swim, for which I dutifully record my impressions:
SUPERJAIL: First few minutes include eyeball injury and vomit...
Jackie Chan makes Sunfire jokes
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With Brett Ratner.
Cecil Castellucci guest blogs
To celebrate the debut of the Minx line (at long last) Plain JANES author Cecil Castellucci is guest blogging at Blog@Newsarama, and thought she earns nerd points by name checking Batman, we're more interested...
The Perils of Aunt May
Rosemary Harris speaks out!
Many comic-book stories have revolved around Peter's reaction when Aunt May is in danger, either because of a supervillain or her frail health. In a memorable sequence in the movie "Spider-Man...
DRINKY CROW on Adult Swim — TONIGHT!
It's true! You can actually watch it all online now but everyone get together and watch and go online and tell everyone at Adult Swim that Drinky Crow MUST continue! You can vote on...
Spurge in the LA Times on Marvel
Tom Spurgeon hits the LA Times with an opinion piece of Marvel's second tier heroes:
From the moment in 1998 that Wesley Snipes slipped into Kevlar and fake fangs to play vampire hunter Blade, Marvel...
Charges dropped against Mooninites
And another promo stunt gone awry is on the books :
Two local artists whose guerrilla marketing stunt caused a day of bomb scares in the Boston region — and then fueled public outrage by...
Kupperman on SNL
Michael Kupperman (TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE) writes to say:
A few weeks ago, Robert Smigel had the idea to have me draw an entire TV Funhouse cartoon for the still-popular TV program Saturday Night...
Bruce. Duran Duran. Holy Shirt.
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Panty explosion!
Somehow I know I will enjoy this
More than a comical tale of Campbell’s misadventures attempting to protect the townfolk, the film expertly parodies the actor himself, portraying him as a drunken egomaniac living alone in a filthy trailer with his...