I suspect that many of you have heard of CafePress.com at some point, but even if you have, you may not know about a lot of the newer possibilities. The internet standard for custom apparel and gifts for years, the site has branched out recently in terms of not only the offerings, but your ability to make your own items. Not only are you now getting a lot more options for TV and Movie … [Read more...]
Film adaptations of wildly popular books is a tricky realm at the best of times. There are so many things to balance, even above and beyond the normal host of things to balance, that you'd hate to bet on success... except in terms of dollars, of course. You've got to find a way to appease the rabid fans, but you also have to make it possible for the uninitiated to wander in, and somehow it has to … [Read more...]
The news has been flying around that Chris Weitz has been tapped to direct New Moon, the second film in the Twilight franchise, and the idea has spawned more comment and reaction than any such news in quite a while. Who directs what is usually good for a short paragraph at best, and that's when anyone bothers to say anything at all. Perhaps just jumping on as a result of Twilight's … [Read more...]
Once in a while, a movie comes along that makes me wonder what the forty-something movie critic sitting next to me in the theater watching Say Anything wrote. Did Some Kind of Wonderful, or let's say for convenience sake... Lost Boys, get one star, or a thumbs down? If so, do those movies really deserve low ratings? Sometimes a movie makes me wonder how a movie critic is really supposed to … [Read more...]
Ok... The Twilight trailer is probably on more websites than anything in quite a while (so what's one more?), but I want to know if the movie is going to suffer from the final book? Here's the trailer -- Twilight By practically unanimous report, the last book in the series crushed the hopes and dreams of Twilight fans. Talk about the film has been tearing up the … [Read more...]
