The new International Trailer for Robots is nowhere near as grating as the first one.
Manly questions
The Man’s Man’s Man, Beau Smith, has a new feature entitled Five Manly Questions With…, and the first interview is with Billy Tucci. Billy’s projects “Gremlin Effect” and the soon-to-be-released “The Magnificent Seventh Graders” both sound enjoyable, and hopefully I’ll hear when they’re available. Beau also has a terrific column I overlooked on the current…
Kickstart Newsletter
Kickstart Newsletter, the regular publication of Dimestore Productions, now has an online subscription page. Dimestore is the company that ran “Small Press Idol” this summer (which, ahem, was one by Phil Meadows and yours truly) and they’ll be publishing Mysterious Visions Anthology this winter. To keep tabs on when their new books are coming out,…
Moore vs. Gibson vs. Oscar vs. Predator
MSNBC/Newsweek tackles the matter of nominating Fahrenheit 9/11 or The Passion for an Oscar. Given that they are the two most talked about movies of the year, it seems like both should be recognized by the Academy. Look, Hutton Gibson’s an anti-Semitic nut, I’ll grant that…but The Passion is not anti-Semitic. If the Academy doesn’t…
Team America review coming
I did sneak in a viewing of “Team America” today, but my cold still has my mind too fogged up to write a good review. If you’re considering going on Saturday, all I’ll say is that anyone who enjoys “South Park” will like it immensely. Also, to give you a taste of my review, I’ll…
Irv Novick has passed away
Mark Evanier reports that the ailing Irv Novick has died.
The real subject of “Team America
Politicize This! by Jonathan Last says that those who think Team America is about making fun of Hollywood’s pretentious stars and their politics miss the point: it’s far more focused on making fun of Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer. I caught a sample clip of “Sean Penn” telling the world how he visited Iraq and…
Great FallCon
It was a great FallCon…probably my best ever…and I’d like to thank MNCBA’s Nick Postiglione for doing the dynamite job he always does. Also, thanks to the numerous “Evil Henchman” (i.e. volunteers) whose hard work of henching did not go unnoticed by the pros, exhibitors and other guests. I will have a post-con wrap-up, but…
More on Reeve
NOTE TO ALL MONITOR DUTY POSTERS: I am suspending our usual rule of “only one post per news item” so that we can all post reactions to Christopher Reeve’s death. (Of course, additional links on the topic are welcome as always.) Here is the extended AP obit, now that they have been able to elaborate…
Off to FallCon 2004!
FallCon 2004 is my first FallCon since Job Wanted was published, and I’ve been looking forward to it for quite a while now. It’s this weekend at the State Fairgrounds in The Cities (that’s Minneapolis/St. Paul to all you folks who don’t know the lingo, like what a Minnesota Flying Wedge is or what we…