I was one of the suckers who got majorly burned by A&E (more than once). They would release shows like Monty Python and The Avengers in numerous pieces, and I ended up paying hundreds of dollars for the shows. Then after the last part came out, they’d box the sets together for a [...]
Time to start figuring out what I’ve posted in the first 100 monsters, I guess.
Ken Burn’s classic documentary series The Civil War can be bought at Amazon today (until supplies dry up) for only $38, 62% of the hundred dollar MRSP. I’m not sure what you could call this work other than magisterial.
Also on sale, Burn’s more recent The War, his WWII documentary.
Happy holiday, everyone!
Library Journal, Sep 1, 2010 issue. From a review of The Reversal by Michael Connelly: “With a movie in the works based on [previous Connelly novel] The Lincoln Lawyer starring Matthew McConaughey, demand for this one will be higher than usual.”
“Wheeeeeeee! Again! Again!”
UPDATE: By coincidence, the original artwork by artist Gil Kane is for sale on eBay right now; the owner is asking for $1300. Anyway, look at the much more restrained art Kane provided. He must have been pissed when he saw how goofily they retouched it.
Here’s some interior art for the comic, not by Kane:
Second [...]
Killdozer!
30 years after King Kong, Irwin Allen schools Willis O’Brien and Ray Harryhausen in how it’s done. You’ve been served, bitches!
So simple. So beautiful. How has this knowledge been lost to Man?
I never actually got out to see Avatar, partly because of my fears that the film, at an overly pithy 162 minutes, was just too short to really tell it’s amazingly complicated story with the detail and nuance required.
Luckily the new “special edition” version due out in theaters soon is eight or nine minutes longer. [...]
