The first movie by the filmmakers, Undead, was pretty darn good, IIRC. It seems to have taken a heck of a long time for them to make this second one, but I imagine that's how it works with ambitious indies.
I'm all for it. Granted, I personally find the nominations more worthwhile than the winner - a list of the year's best films is useful and interesting; singling one out often feels arbitrary. I also think that having ten nominees for Best Picture but not the other awards will have positive side...
I figure Fehr is like Scott Boras - for the most part, he does his job extremely well, and most of us would absolutely want him defending our interests should they need defending. He miscalculated a bit where drug testing was concerned, initially valuing privacy over public perception, but it's...
I don't think I've ever let that bother me. I just take it as a given that 2010 is set in "2010 as imagined in 1980". Heck, yesterday I watched a film that took place in an imaginary 1949; which is sort of pre-dated. It was still an entertaining fantasy; you just have to consider the perspective...
Baseball Reference. Everyone who likes baseball should have it bookmarked. I gather they have sister sites for inferior sports, too. I get a little suspicious of highlight-reel defense sometimes - diving catches just as often indicate poor positioning/range as excellent defense. Maybe...
Nick Green is having the best year of his career at 30. If he were hitting home runs, people would be making ugly accusations. And don't look, but Ortiz has an 1123 OPS for June as of now. The weird thing about short right now is that Lugo and Green are just about even, offensively...
See, I want more cold war sci-fi plots - I think that was a particularly brilliant move on Lucas's part, having Indy's adventures reflect the Saturday matinees of the period (swashbucklers for the 30s, implications of spy work during the war years, paranoid sci-fi in the 50s). It's among the...
It's called "selling high". As good as Saito's been, he's a one-year signing who is probably the highest-risk guy in the pen due to his age and the fact that he's coming off injury. Trading him wouldn't do anything to Boston's long-range plans, and short-term... Well, the shortstop situation...
It's certainly looking like they'll come out of this series against four division leaders (or, at least, four teams that led the division at the start of the series ) in pretty good shape, with the next really difficult-looking opponent coming when they face Toronto and Texas after the all-star...
It's Francona's new brainstorm - play Lugo once a week, and he'll cram a week's worth of production into that game. End, game, end. I've got a pile of screeners to review and this is the second night in a row where my plan to stick one in after the end of the movie has been foiled.
I wonder if this is dictated by local competition. A lot of regional sports networks have SportsCenter knockoffs that are more locally focused; I'll tend to check out NESN's SportsDesk first because I know it's going to go into detail on Red Sox, Celtics, etc. stuff. So ESPN plays up...
Absolutely. I'm just one guy with an HD DVR, but the shot from behind home plate clearly showed the ball disappearing behind the foul pole. If the manager did ask that it be replayed, and the ump refused to do it, the umpire should be disciplined. (And Manuel probably should have kicked up...
They really should have - that "foul ball" in the 11th was pretty clearly behind the pole as it passed. Why Manuel wasn't pitching more of a fit and demanding replay is beyond me.
He seemed gritty enough (with a passable American accent) in Taken, although that may be more than necessary. Mel Gibson would probably be ideal for the role, but I don't see him as being terribly interested. As for casting B.A., I always figured they should go as far from trying to replicate...
Also, the rumor going around is that part of Monday's big release of Captain America #600 will be some casting information. Supposedly, Marvel's doing a Monday release (comics regularly come out on Wednesdays) because there's news coverage timed to coincide with it, possibly something bigger...
I wouldn't be surprised if he was doing a lot of stage work. The various IMDB equivalents for stage are far from complete. Of course, he's also around retirement age. He may just be enjoying the free time.
I'd put it more like this: This movie is good, with until it gets to the Guggenheim museum, at which point it becomes incredible. Then the shootout finishes and it's merely good again. But, man, does it have one heck of a showcase/centerpiece action scene!
It was also a pretty darn good comic (which has a prequel coming out this summer), and although I'm tickled that this kind of movie was made in the Boston area, the original comic was set in Atlanta (or "Central Georgia Metropolis"), and I wonder where they're going to say the movie takes place.
I suspect Lohan's not getting millions thrown at her for this project.
Hopefully this gets her one the right track, professionally and personally. As much as a 22-year-old woman shouldn't need this kind of supervision, it's pretty clear that she was not learning personal responsibility in her...
Papelbon's been doing that all year. The word is that he and the team have changed his mechanics a fair amount because his old ones were causing soreness or the like. It looks like they've traded some control or command (whatever "command" is) for less injury risk. Speculation is that the Red...
Of course, expecting them to repeat that means assuming that they will repeat what didn't work the first time and learn nothing from what did. I wouldn't call that a particularly safe assumption.
Does the quite frankly frightening number of series I have pulled for me monthly at the comic shop count? No? To be fair, one of them is Judge Dredd Megazine, which in addition to four comic serials has some pretty darn good interviews, articles, and film reviews. Aaaanyway, I'm...