DISTRICT 9, Johannesburg (AP) — In the wake of its recent Nigerian ban, the film District 9 has also been banned in District 9. Citing images of the district’s alien inhabitants as “filthy, violent, cat food-eating bug-monsters,” Hive Drone Overseer Prime Martin Anderson forbid the film’s showing within the perimeter of the penned-off home of [...]
From The New York Times, September 8, 2009:
FINDING NAMOR
Three important screenwriters died recently. Which writer’s work will have the greatest impact on the future of movie-making?
On August 7, an action movie, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, opens against a cooking movie, Julie and Julia. To update the franchise for the new millennium, G.I. Joe now stands for:
I’ve been to 13 Comic-Cons. And every year I go back, I get this crazy feeling. It’s a combination of exhaustion and déjà vu and girls in costumes that warps me into a headspace where I believe that Comic-Con is my only true existence. The rest of my life – the other 364 days – [...]
It’s only letting me write this “excerpt,” instead of the main text of the blog post. So let’s see what happens when I try.
I should go back now and write this as a “note” in case it crashes but I am too lazy. Feeling slightly sick from typing this on the bumpy moving 10:35 Amtrak from San Diego to LA. Seem to be writing in dying person’s last words Twitter speak. First Comic-Con with iPhone. Much easier. Text friends all day. Still remember being at Con and having to run back to room all the time to check messages in hotel room. Posting now. Let’s see if this works.
The following outburst was yelled after the trailer for The Time Traveler’s Wife:
