Cracked uses that late minute reworking of the Red Dawn remake as a jump off point for a very funny article on "6 Groups Who Don't Work as Movie Bad Guys Anymore". I'm not proud but I even ended up LOL'ing at a poop joke.
Boy Culture Jesus. I was on to something posting that "stars as other stars" post just a few days back. Now Madonna went and did Charlie Chaplin for Purim. Cute.
Little White Lies has a nice piece on double readings of Blade Runner depending on whether you view Deckard as a Replicant or regular human man.
My New Plaid Pants Tom Hardy on the other hand is no machine but man. He's got the peen to prove it in a new digital short [NSFW].
Ester Goldberg is that Barbra Streisand Gypsy movie really dead? Some people aren't letting the ghost go.
Cinema Blend has an alarmist headline "No More Nudity For Ewan McGregor". I'm not sure that the quotes support the headline but made me look. You win.
And finally Awards Daily shares the first photos from the set of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit. I know it is probably my duty as a huge fan of the Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as a denizen of planet Earth to be excited about this movie... er movie²... but I think it's a terrible idea.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy was so Aughts-defining in a way and why not go out on a high note like, I dunno, sweeping at the Oscars? Just a thought, Peter. I can't see how this won't feel like either
a) a rerun retread reboot
b) nostalgia exercize / faded glory
c) The Lord of the Rings Episode IV: The Phantom Menace.
Oh shush. I feel that "C" is a fair barb given the tonal "I completely forgot how to direct" chaotic atrocity that was The Lovely Bones. But I'll allow that maybe this is just cynical fretting. As a huge fan of LotR and Heavenly Creatures even moreso and even as an admirer of that Meet the Feebles gusto, I'll always hope that Jackson can work new magics.