Forum: Arts and Entertainment

Let me be clear about something up front. I've never read a single Sherlock Holmes book. I've never seen a single Sherlock Holmes movie. The closest I've ever come to that is watching an episode of House once. I don't have any great fondness for...

... Titanic is a good movie. It has Jack Bristow and the king of Rohan, for crying out loud.

I just got a library card* and now my lack of funds doesn't matter in terms of reading. So, since I won't have the bargain tables to guide me in what to pick up next, I'm turning to you. (Well, you and people on some of those other boards...) ...

I don't necessarily mean musicals (although the title sequence for Singin' in the Rain is one of the most jubilant moments on film). My picks? Easy Rider - Jack, Peter and Dennis driving through the great Southwest to the tune of The Band's "The...

This is very, very tangentially inspired by the NaNoWriMo article. Repeatedly I have heard or read that novellas are unpopular. Conventional wisdom seems to be that readers don't like them. Apparently publishers go so far as to misrepresent books as...

I have new guilty-pleasure movie. It was on heavy HBO rotation a few months ago, and I can't get enough of it. Coneheads I know it's not a good movie, but it kills me. Dan Akroyd is flawless in the movie.

I love vintage advertisements but a recent advert that I've seen on buses has really caught my eye. It's done an 8-bit style and is somewhat reminiscent of a Where's Wally/Waldo? or a Richard Scarry book in its details. Unfortunately it's for that...

OK, the rules: - Has to be live-action media. No animation or rotoscoping. - The actor has to be portaying someone younger than themself. After all, making someone look older is easy; look at James Woods in Ghosts of Mississippi. - I'm...

Maybe most people won't know what they are, but some of them have, for whatever reason, become familiar to practically everyone. Name pieces that everyone knows. I'm going to start out with a modern classical piece. Most familiar from some TV...

and yea verily, it came to pass that the Star Wars movies were to be released in yet a nother new format and this could mean only one thing. That the grand high maker of there, should go and yet again tinker with them. AGAIN. It's not enough...

Entertainment Weekly recently published a list of the "20 Best Things of the Decade." I think that the list is pretty much crap. 1.) A Boy Named Harry Potter 2.) The Sopranos 3.) YouTube 4.) The Lord of the Rings

I am almost finished with the first season. I do not understand this show at all. It is on 100 kinds of crack and every character is a shrieking lunatic, and there's a lot more crazed love-polygon nonsense than I usually go for. Also Bill Compton...

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There's a two minute clip from the upcoming film adaptation making the rounds: F7cS2L0iN0s

According to the latest reports, his latest film, "The Beaver" is a stinker and even the assistance of Jodie Foster as director can't help. So given that he never got his cameo in "The Hangover 2", his past anti-semetic outbursts, and trouble...

I was wondering which of his stories would be the best place to start?

Seriously, don't do it. It doesn't matter how much you wanted something salty from the goddamned vending machine that's always full of nastiness (one day the first row was ketchup flavored chips, steak and Worcestershire flavored chips, and pickle...

I have been feeling totally cruddy today, so I have just decided that I'm going to treat myself to this movie. I expect it to be preachy in places, but I always thought that this was the most filmable of the Narnia books. It was my favorite as a...

There is a remake coming of John Le Carre's classic spy story, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier Spy and instead of Alec Guiness, it's starring Gary Oldman instead. I'm wondering how they are going to fit what was a seven hour mini series into a 2-3 film,...

Guess which they are. This isn't exactly a football song but it does have a footballer in it. T1urq4Vb0XM An Irish on from 1990, still makes people go mental when they hear it. I5PT65I2ny8

As discussed on the current whatcha reading thread, there are several posters here who have reread Lord of the Rings over and over again. It made me wonder...anyone else have any other books that they keep going back to? For me it's the Anne of...

Time to break out your Internet dancing shoes, or crank your computer speakers up to eleven. Post your best hand waving, butt shaking songs right here! Thought I'd start it off with something fun and silly, something that never fails to get me...

"But if he's been murdered by crystal meth tweekers, well, we're shit out of luck." See this movie! Fucking hysterical. Much better than the trailer, which is madness in and of itself.

I did not realize that Debbie has spent her life collecting these items; it's a very impressive collection. She had the famous Marilyn Monroe "subway grate" dress (it went for about $5 million), several dresses Julie Andrews wore in The Sound...

Several thousand people have paid good money to hear her, leading to Princess Di to consult her regularly. However, fans of Psychic Sally were quite upset when they went to one of her shows. From the back of the theatre, they heard a man's voice...

Heil Honey, I'm Home! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWjCkcAmzDc Would love to know what Domers think of this.

Okay, a friend turned me on to the series about a year or so ago, and I've slowly been working my way through the previous seasons, while trying to keep up with the current episodes. One thing that caught my eye was that House often bounced a...

So, I'm a day late. Bite me. Kirk et al invade a cell and get stuck in cytoplasm. Or is it ectoplasm? Spock decides to take one for the team, and even Bones is a bit choked up about it. I think this is a solid episode, but I have to confess I...

Someone pointed me in the direction of this comic about the amazing adventures of Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage and their difference engine. Not only is it highly amusing, it is also highly geeky as the author has tried to make all the facts...

Elizabeth Taylor, aged 79, and winner of two Oscars has died. She was one of the most beautiful actresses to grace the screen and had a tempestuous off-screen life as well. She will be missed.

Anyone up for a game of Fizzbin? Say, is that a heater I see you packing? Kirk et al find themselves in a strange world of 1920s gangsters, without the bootleg liquor or the prostitution. These gangsters seem more like Rotary club...

My wife and I have now seen the first two episodes, without benefit of having read the books. I'm wondering, is there a point where this fantasy becomes, like, fun? Right now it's more depressing than my real life, and I'm not sure how much...

Thank you spitz, this is hilarious and I know several cats that act this way. EKvNqe8cKU4 All your boxes are belong to cats :kitteh:

Being reported on BBC news, now. Died of a heart attack a few hours ago in UCLA medical centre, after arriving there in a coma.

First, some carryover from the other thread: I hate when these threads become love fests. Disenting opinions are fun. Absolutely. Criticism is welcome, and anticipated! As well as recommendations that I missed. Okay, here we go. Most...

A recent article in the New Yorker about the upcoming movie version of "John Carter of Mars" got be interested in this character and the "Barsoom" books. I've never read them. I assume they're swashbuckling old school fun. Is that the case?...

Right now, I'm watching Troy. It's pretty perfectly awful. Besides minor cosmological and geographic inaccuracies (such as giving Sparta a port, and having the sun rise in the west), it basically takes a gigantic smelly shit all over not only the...

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4th of July: Independence Day 1776 (of course) Jaws (Action takes place leading up to and over July 4th weekend.) Easter: Easter Parade Wizard of Oz (For some reason this was shown on Easter Weekend for decades) Godspell

Each month in 2010, I'm going to have a special feature on a GLBT-themed film. I already have several films in mind, but I'll be more than happy to take any nominations (with the caveat that the person who offers the nomination must also write the...

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My girlfriend took the day off; I'm still unemployed; so we're going to the 10:45 am showing. Will report upon return. Hrmm.

I know the show came out in 1999 and ran for 3 seasons, so it isn't exactly current. But in 1999 I was in no position to be aware of, much less watch, American TV (I was living in Mozambique with a newborn), so it is only recently that I've come...

And from Hollywood comes the next attemmpt from Hollywood to take a series of books and turn them into an ongoing and highly lucrative set of film. It looks like a cross between Harry Potter and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. It also appears...

Shall we just do the rest of the season as one thread? Finally got caught up this weekend. Observations: -- Maybe I'm just in a cranky mood, but I don't give a damn if any of these dipshits wins a million dollars. -- Tyson is just a big a...

This was not easy to narrow down a list. I used my knowledge of movies and several Internet sources. The lines between Old Hollywood, Post Studio and Current are not sharp but I managed to get 23 actors for each list. In the end I will take the top...

This is something I’d thought about starting on that other board. I figure anyone who joins can all agree to rent, Netflix, buy, or otherwise watch a particular movie, then discuss it at a pre-arranged time. I don’t think genre limitations are...

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/upcoming_releases/metallica_lulu_is_one_of_the_best_things_weve_ever_done.html?no_takeover This collaboration seems to me like eating garlic in custad sauce (ie, not a good mix). I like garlic. I like custard....

Publishers Bloomsbury ran a poll to find out who were the favourite Harry Potter characters in the muggleverse. The top five were 1. Alan Rickman Severus Snape 2. Hermione Granger 3. Sirius Black 4. Harry Potter 5. Ron Weasley