"the human head weighs 8 lbs"
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 8:39PM 
<--- Blog Stage Awwww, tiny cute person Jonathan Lipnicki (Jerry Maguire) is all grown up. Just celebrated his 21st birthday.
Empire file this one under: extremely odd news. Seems that Lynne Ramsay of Morvern Callar and We Need To Talk About Kevin is planning a sci-fi film inspired by Moby Dick. Of all things.
i09 ZOMG! Y'all know about my strange "Dazzler" fetish from all of those Red Carpet convos where the mutant superhero x-woman disco star kept coming up. Now an artist has reimagined her as a man.
Clutch Magazine Occupy Hollywood
Aint It Cool Looks like it's more crime dramas for director Ben Affleck rather than another filmed version of Stephen King's The Stand.
Fashion Telegraph a clothing line based on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Make it stop! I think Joanna at Pajiba said it best when she said...
I’ve always wanted to dress as a mentally unstable, violent victim of abuse."
Animation Kung Fu Panda becomes an animated TV series next month.
Self Styled Siren on James Wolcott, Pauline Kael and critic wars
Indie Wire has a list of the Cinema Eye nominees, honoring documentary filmmaking the top category goes like so.
The Arbor (Clio Barnard)
Senna (Asif Kapadia)
Project NIM (James Marsh)
Position Among the Stars (Leonard Retel Heimrich)
Nostalgia For the Light (Patricio Guzmán)
The Interrupters (Steve James)
I keep meaning to write about The Arbor. So fascinatingly heavy and interesting.
Even the Blind Film Critic knows that Tom Cruise isn't quite right visually to play "Jack Reacher", his upcoming franchise role...
In Ye Olden Times when Tom Cruise used to get cast in roles he wasn't right for -- hi, Lestat! -- it could easily be blamed on his #1 position in Hollywood's star structure. But what's the excuse now? Hmmmm...
Reader Comments (4)
I understand and sympathize with the feeling behind it, but honestly, that Occupy Hollywood was a little ugly in its mean-spiritedness. And the Chaz Bono one was borderline homophobic and transphobic. What was the artist even trying to say with that?
Again, agree with the spirit, but maybe not the execution.
Sci-fi epics, literary and cinematic, are heavily indebted to the tradition of adventures on the sea. I'm thinking Star Trek here, with its "first mates," etc. So I'm not weirded out by a sci-fi Moby-Dick. Let's just hope "Ismael" and Queequag aren't too encumbered with prosthetic alien limbs to enjoy their time bunking together.
DUSTY -- your last sentence makes me long for an NC-17 riff rather than a sci-fi adventure.
LIZ -- i get you. sometimes after i link something i'm like uhhhhh... but one must forge onward blogblogblog
How is it that Tom Cruise is still getting cast in anything? I guess Hollywood must be rife with other Scientologists? That's the only thing I can figure out. Yes, he was a good actor, and may still be (his performance in Magnolia was genuinely terrifying - and I mean that as a compliment), but his judgement has gone far, far south of the border and he turns off an awful lot of people.