I just had a nostalgiagasm
Behold the Indiana Jones 4 trailer. I'm going into this the way I go into a new diet and exercise plan: nominally excited but expecting abject failure. George Lucas has already done to misty memories...
View ArticleMel Gibson is 3/10
Given my glee at the historical fun of 10,000BC, I greatly enjoyed this list Yahoo put together of the 10 most historically inaccurate movies. Good stuff here. Strange that Mel is involved in 3 of...
View ArticleScrew Communal Experiences, I Want a Footrest
Mark at I Watch Stuff seems to drift somewhat beyond ironic mock-irritation into the realm of genuine scorn in discussing the advent of high-end movie theatres in America. Australian conglomerate...
View ArticleLike Doctor Who Meets Dune Meets The Canterbury Tales, Only Good, Not Campy …...
I wonder how the hell the pitch session went, but Warner films is indeed making a film adaptation of Dan Simmons's wonderful Hyperion novels. If you've not read any of them, I'd avoid that link, as...
View ArticleWhen There Is No More Room In Hell, The Dead Will Waste Your Friday Afternoon
If I were to nominate a secular trinity of men who embody everything important to Popehat, its members would be wrestler Ric Flair, Congressman Ron Paul, and filmmaker George Romero. As we haven't...
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We're An Ancient Race … The Future Don't Matter To Us.
I'm gathering a few odds and ends I've written at other places through the years, as recent events at one of the sites bookmarked on the left have taught me that a website is an ephemeral thing. Some...
View ArticleLucky Strike Green Has Gone To War!
This Friday afternoon's time waster is a rare treat I'd been saving for the memorable occasion when I'm absolutely stumped on what to suggest and no one else had a better idea. So I'm pulling out my...
View ArticleBest In Show
Postal director Uwe Boll: controversial avant gardist of cinema; tortured genius under siege from lesser minds; or a new Orson Welles? Game Politics reports. You decide. Postal, the film based on the...
View ArticleGood Books, Awful Movies
i09 has got a list of 10 good books that became bad movies. Since it's i09, they are all sci-fi. The what's-the-worst-movie-from-a-book exercise is a common one, and I think it's often fundamentally...
View ArticleSuppose We Agree That The Town Can't Show The Movie, But it Has The RIGHT To...
In 1979 the town of Aberystwyth, Wales banned the movie Life of Brian for blasphemy. Now Aberystwyth Mayor Sue Jones-Davies is attempting to lift the ban. She's got a stake in it; Sue Jones-Davies,...
View ArticleThou Shalt Not Write or Deliver Crappy Lines
I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I expect the same from them. See, that's a good line. You're beautiful in your wrath....
View ArticleMy Epic Movie Series Takes Place Entirely On A Couch
This weekend I encountered a number of parents of tween or young teenaged girls, and all of them had been dragged by their offspring to see Twilight. I haven't read the hyped books, and am not inclined...
View ArticleRay Harryhausen, 1920-2013
Thank you, Ray. You moved me.The post Ray Harryhausen, 1920-2013 first appeared on Popehat.Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author.
View ArticleA Prayer, a Thayer, and a Player
What if Jimmy Stewart and Henry Fonda waxed Shakespearean? The actor/impersonator is, of course, Scott Ratner.The post A Prayer, a Thayer, and a Player first appeared on Popehat.Copyright 2017 by the...
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