- Roger Ebert and Harry Knowles are both well-respected critics, and what’s more, they’re good buddies, so I was interested to see just how much they disagreed in their opinions of Kick-Ass. Read Ebert’s take here and Knowles’ response here.
- Shiloh Fernandez, a young actor some may know from United States of Tara, has been cast opposite Amanda Seyfried in the upcoming Girl with the Red Riding Hood. After Seyfried’s kick-ass turn in Jennifer’s Body, I’m stoked to see her in another genre role.
- Normally I would run screaming from any movie that has anything even remotely to do with either one of the Olsen twins … I’m sure they’re very nice, but they give me the uber-wiggins. Anyway, the upcoming Beastly actually looks pretty intriguing, plus it’s got Neil Patrick Harris, which is always a plus.
- Attention aspiring novelists: here’s an interesting list about what danger signs to check your novel for before sending it off. Could save you a whole page of notes from your editor!
- I’m getting really sick of seeing one re-imagining of The Wizard of Oz after another, while the glory that is Wicked remains unfilmed. However, I’m a fan of Robert Downey, Jr., so the idea of him playing the Wizard in a film focusing on that character could be kind of cool. (Elphaba would be cooler, though. Just sayin’.)
- In the tradition of kid-power Kick-Ass, here’s a list of 5 Shockingly Powerful Kids Who Make You Look Like a Coward. Seriously.
- Remember how awesome Marvel vs. Capcom was? How crazy it was to see these two disparate character catalogs clash with cunning chaotic carnality? Well, they’re makin’ a new one! Aw, yeah!
- And since I would be remiss in not mentioning the upcoming Iron Man 2, aka the most important thing to happen to humanity ever, Slashfilm has 23 high-res photos for your viewing pleasure.
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I totally dug Return to Oz! I got crap for it back in the day (I was MUCH younger then) but I think it’d stand up. Haven’t seen it for years. A re-rental is in order. Thanks, Jay, for bringin’ it up.
And now I gotta see KICK ASS to form an opinion. And to see a good movie, from what I can tell from a distance. I’m personally trending away from the uber-violence… but I did really like 28 DAYS & WEEKS later. Sheesh. I’m slowly ripping in half… Gotta go grab a tissue…
I’d be up for a new Oz film if they could make it as dark and awesome as Return to Oz was. I hope they release that on blu-ray soon.
I actually loved Natural Born Killers, which totally WAS a satire of a violence-saturated media (but most people missed that point). 500,000 ever-more-gruesome violence satire/homages later (thanks Quentin), I’m starting to think it’s all just violence-porn. I think I’m with Ebert on this one, hopeless square and all.