I had to spend a little time trying to rewrite my headspace on this. I kept wanting to see it as a movie, when in reality Stargate: Origins is a subscriber-only web series. This makes it interesting as an income model: for twenty bucks you apparently get the movies and the TV series, plus access to the show when it comes out.
Category: Movies
Stan Lee rushed to hospital.
Link to ComingSoon so you won’t have to read it on TMZ. They say that he’s fine, but Stan Lee is also 95 years old. Under those kinds of circumstances, ‘fine’ is one of those terms that typically has ‘all things considered’ attached to it somewhere.
My prayers for his recovery and continuing good health.
Zachary Quinto doing revival of… “In Search Of.”
OK. This is funny: “Zachary Quinto is following in Leonard Nimoy‘s footsteps again and is set to host a new UFO series for The History Channel called In Search Of. The series is basically a revival of Rod Serling and Leonard Nimoy’s 1970s series of the same name which saw the hosts examine unexplained phenomena all over the world.” I mean, sure, it’s a pseudoscience show. And it’s a gimmick show. And it’s yet another revival of an old intellectual property. But it’s a gimmick AND a revival AND a pseudoscience show! I admire the thoroughness that the History Channel showed in avoiding having to come up with an original idea, here.
No, really. I’m a honest man; I can admit it when somebody’s managed to tactically surprise me. It never would have occurred to me to cast the guy playing Spock now in the role that the guy who used to play Spock had while he was taking a break from playing Spock. I totally have to respect that particular ploy.
The new ‘Jack Ryan’ Superbowl ad.
I keep looking at this, and scratching my head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V69XYIRjKww
It doesn’t look like it’s bad, exactly. The actor doesn’t not look like Jack Ryan, or at least he looks like what Jack Ryan could possibly look like. I’m fine with that.
The ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ trailer.
Oh, OK. We’re good. Everything’s gonna be fine.
That looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, actually. Especially the part where Dr. Pym is fairly obviously all “I don’t give a good goddam about how my suitcase-building will affect the rest of the MCU continuity that’s THEIR problem I got stuff to do.” When you think about it, they’ve been pretty careful so far in trying to minimize (heh) the disruptions from all this hyper-tech; but in the end, this is a superhero universe, and we all came here for human-sized Hello Kitty Pez dispensers being thrown at people. I am, as they say, down with it.
Comes out in July 2018.
‘Burnistoun – Lovecraftian Sketch.’
Saw this on Facebook this morning [Ah: found the link], and it’s pretty good. Presumably ‘Burnistoun’ is a Scottish comedy show on the BBC*; the folks that wrote this have a good feel for the beats in a Cthulhu Mythos riff. Nice to see people who get to have real budgets do something like this.
Moe Lane
*Alas, while there’s a lot of garbage on the air today there’s also apparently more good stuff than can be comprehensively watched. So it goes. There are worse problems to have, honestly.
Tom Hanks to play Mr. Rogers.
…I’ll allow it.
Tom Hanks' Mr. Rogers biopic 'You Are My Friend' lands at TriStar (EXCLUSIVE) https://t.co/L0ioxMgh1K pic.twitter.com/ZK7i0OiVbQ
— Variety (@Variety) January 29, 2018
I Got Nothing Files: ‘Crocodile Dundee sequel’ actually just teaser for Superbowl ad.
This is our world, now.
That Danny McBride ad is NOT another Crocodile Dundee film shot in secret called, its just an upcoming Super Bowl ad called Dundee: The Son of a Legend Returns Home that was created for Australian tourism in Canada.
Further commentary superfluous.
Annnnnnnd the bad news: there’s gonna be a Murphy Brown revival.
It’d be less bad news if I had any confidence that they’re bringing back Miles Silverberg. I watched Murphy Brown for nine years, and Miles was easily my favorite character. Something just went out of the show when Grant Shaud left.
Moe Lane
PS: Yeah, no original ideas in entertainment anymore, nostalgia kicks, heavy-handed scripts, etc etc etc. I’d still probably tune in if they got the whole main cast together from Season 1-3. I guess that makes me part of the problem?
The new “Pacific Rim: Uprising” trailer.
The premise for Pacific Rim: Uprising is goofy and illogical and not really workable and I WILL BE THERE FOR THE FIRST MATINEE SHOWING. I’m not going opening night because it’s going to be weird that week (birthday week); it’s just easier to go the next morning. WITH ALL THE POPCORN.
Moe Lane
PS: LA LA LA MY INNER TWELVE YEAR OLD CAN’T HEAR YOU LA LA LA