Category Archives: cinema

if looks could wound

Posted on Tuesday, 2003 January 28 by Anton

I hear through Dad that the Russian Government is incensed at Peter Jackson’s The Two Towers. Why? (There was a pause as Dad gave me time to guess. I had no idea.) Because Gollum looks like Esteemed Comrade President Putin!

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hobbits and wizards

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 January 22 by Anton

I haven’t heard much discussion of the casting of LotR. I’d cast Merry and Pippin the other way around, for two reasons. Billy Boyd as reckless young Pippin is (to my eye) much more mature in demeanor than Dominic Monaghan … Continue reading →

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Drew Barrymore cracks me up

Posted on Monday, 2003 January 06 by Anton

Would you like to know just what cracks me up about Drew Barrymore? Well I’ll tell you, if this is a convenient time. The funny thing about Drew Barrymore is that when she smirks she looks strikingly like Stephen Fry. … Continue reading →

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disguised as a TARDIS

Posted on Sunday, 2003 January 05 by Anton

The BBC has won a legal dispute with Scotland Yard over the trademark of the blue box. (From Plokta)

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through red red red glasses

Posted on Wednesday, 2003 January 01 by Anton

Here’s a chuckle: Maoist movie reviews. Disney and Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life” has as good side and a bad side. The good side is that it portrays the successful collective struggle of the apparently weak oppressed and exploited (in this … Continue reading →

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it just occurred to me—

Posted on Sunday, 2002 December 29 by Anton

is Liv Tyler the world’s most famous bastard?

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Orthanc and Minas Ithil

Posted on Sunday, 2002 December 29 by Anton

Anyway, I saw The Two Towers yesterday, and I must say some puzzling liberties were taken with the plot. The transformation of thirty Rangers (and Arwen’s brothers) riding from Rivendell into hundreds of anonymous Elf archers walking out of nowhere-in-particular … Continue reading →

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