Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales:
With Dynamo 5 going on its hopefully brief hiatus, I figured I'd re-read the entire 25 1/2 issues, plus the annual, to see if it held up in a more or less single read as well as it did in my memory. Fortunately, it did.Regular readers will have heard Pops sing the praises of Dynamo 5 on occasion, but really, it's one of the (Read More)
The Guardian:
British character actor whose role in Waiting for Godot led to more than 50 years on stage, television and filmTimothy Bateson, who has died aged 83, was a character actor of boundless versatility and great warmth of personality who will always be remembered for playing Lucky in the controversial British premiere of Samuel (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Martine McCutcheon on trying to survive as an actress – and why the main character in her debut novel is undisguisedly her'You will be nice to her, won't you?" Martine McCutcheon's somewhat overprotective publicist says to me when our interview ends. They are feeling a bit bruised because actress-turned-singer-turned-first- (Read More)
The Guardian:
Sky tried to play down the comedy of the traditionally proportioned David Haye's battle with the hulking Nikolai ValuevI shall tell you what you rarely see on TV these days – Laurel and Hardy shorts. BBC2 used to show a whole bunch of them – not the silent ones, sadly, but you cannot have everything – round about Christmas (Read More)
Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales:
Miracleman has got to be the poster child for scheduling delays. Sixteen issues, which are the sum total of Alan Moore's run on the book, took from August 1985 until December 1989. Why, that's almost the entire 4 years I was in college, and an average of 4 isues per year for what was ostensibly a monthly book. Then again, o (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Anyone who's anyone wears his rhyming slogan T-shirts. Supermodel Agyness Deyn is his best friend. And now this young peacock is putting the debonair into Debenhams…Henry Holland thinks that, on reflection, he did not inherit his style from his father. "He told me the other day he'd be wearing his new jacket to my sister's (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Harry Brown sees Caine back on his old stomping ground. Will Connery and co follow his lead?The Old Crowd is showing its age these days. When you see Michael Caine ridding his working-class estate of nasty little asbo 'orrors in Harry Brown, shuffling around in his granddad shoes and his woolly pully, always short of puff a (Read More)
The Guardian:
With its top-class cast and horribly fascinating location there could scarcely be any more to love about the Mann sagaThere are better ways to open a newspaper column than this, but please ignore most of what follows. It was all written in the grip of Stendhal syndrome. In case you are unfamiliar with the condition – and if (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Inside the spartan federal prison cell where a brother of "The Dark Knight" director Christopher Nolan was being held, officials allegedly found tools for a Batman-like escape: 31 feet of rope made from bedsheets, a harness, a razor and a metal clip that could unlock handcuffs.
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The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Alec Baldwin appears on the cover of the new holiday movie preview issue of Entertainment Weekly, promoting his upcoming romantic comedy 'It's Complicated' with costar Meryl Streep. Baldwin, who messily split from Kim Basinger, his wife of eight years, in 2001, talks about his own complicated love life and taking his clothe (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
The maverick TV guru has put in a semi-serious bid to take on the franchise for $10,000. Plus, Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass is getting raves - but are they to be believed?If there's one thing you can say about Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly and Serenity, it's that he's prepared to give pretty much an (Read More)
Comics And...Other Imaginary Tales:
Jim: Wow, we are already into 2010, is this our last year according to the Mayan Calendar? No it’s 2012 and did the Mayan have swimsuit calendars? Ad odd tangent I know, but onto the picks.Lee: Ummm, yeah. A very odd tangent. But, maybe that new movie with John Cusak will answer the question. Apparently it has to do with Ma (Read More)
L.A. Times - TV News:
In their world, they are superheroes “Fanboy and Chum Chum,” which premieres tonight on Nickelodeon before taking up its regular post Saturday morning, is a cartoon about two kids who live in a permanent state of playing. They dress as superheroes, wearing thei (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Unfinished business from Girl, InterruptedTo BlackBook magazine, and a confusing interview with Winona Ryder, in which she recalls the days when she starred with Angelina Jolie in Girl, Interrupted, a movie Ryder also produced. Back then, of course, Winona was the big name, while no one could have predicted the UN-backed, c (Read More)