Here are some of the pre-Sundance things I wrote for Film.com that might be of interest and/or amusement to you.
The Hobbit Movies Are Coming, but Will They Be Any Good? – Sharp-eyed readers may note references to a song I once recorded. (Track #4)
Only 165 People Paid to See Jessica Simpson’s New Movie – And you didn’t even know she had a new movie!
Why Must Michael Bay Focus So Much on the Robots? – Be sure to read the comments afterward.
News Flash! The MPAA Rating System Is Complete Crap! – And we have examples to prove it!
Aunt May Ruins Everything – Regarding some recent changes in the Spider-Man world.
I Have This Great Idea for a Romantic Comedy! – It’s totally revolutionary!
Why accompany an article pointing out Jessica Simpson’s “jacked up” teeth with a picture of her not smiling? What’s wrong with her teeth?
One more thing while I refuse to register on another website just to make a comment: Mephisto’s condition for saving Aunt May is to erase Peter and Mary Jane’s marriage? That is totally a soap opera! The bad guys motives are to mess up someone else’s relationship? That is so lame!
I Have This Great Idea for a Romantic Comedy! was very funny. I personally think Marci should be the possibly chubby less-attractive best friend.
That Hobbit article is basically your Lord of the Rings song with additions.
I loved how Joe Quesada (current head honcho of Marvel comics) decided that having Spider-Man amicably divorce his wife because the marriage wasn’t working out would bring negative publicity, but consorting with a demon to -wouldn’t-.
From the Aunt May article: “It would be highly unusual, for example, if you woke up one day to find that your mom who died 10 years ago had actually never died at all and was now in the kitchen making breakfast. But in the fictional world, stuff like that happens all the time.”
It also happens in dreams. For ten years after my mother died unexpectedly, I kept discovering that she had actually only gone away to a hospital or something, and now she was back. Waking up from a dream like that was unnerving.
The comments on the transformers article were hilarious. The two posters who disagreed with it were the sort of people who need everything spelled out for them in order to get the joke aka the sort of people who liked Meet the Spartans.