This is just too much fun. Two days ago, Carmen Andres posted a bunch of photos suggesting that there might be some sort of connection between John McCain and Battlestar Galactica‘s Colonel Tigh. And now that McCain has chosen his running mate, Palmer Houchins of Paste magazine notes that there may be a link between Sarah Palin and Laura Roslin. I think I like this even better than the Sarah Palin – Tina Fey connection that some people have been... Read more

Gadzooks. There are four movies opening in wide release today, and three of them were not screened for critics. I already mentioned Babylon A.D., but it wasn’t until I checked the release schedule last night that I realized I had heard nothing — absolutely nothing — about screenings for College and Disaster Movie. And next week, of course, brings us only one new wide release, Bangkok Dangerous, and that film, too, is not being screened for critics, as I mentioned... Read more

There’s been a lot of buzz lately about the fact that Charles Ferguson’s by-now-somewhat-out-of-date Iraq War documentary No End in Sight (2007) will be made available in its entirety on YouTube next month. But I don’t see what the big deal is; the film has been available on Google Video for almost a year: Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. And if this is all about the election… Well, hyping this movie at this point in... Read more

For those who like to speculate about how far the new Star Trek movie will go with its rumoured exploration of alternate timelines, check out this interview with Zachary Quinto, and his response when he is asked, around the 3:25 mark, how his performance as the young Spock was informed by his knowledge of what the character would become in the existing TV shows and movies: Click here if the video file above doesn’t play properly. Hat tip to TrekMovie.com. Read more

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Warner Brothers had finally figured out what to do with the DC Comics superheroes: Instead of making a Justice League movie that would compete with the existing Batman and Superman franchises, they will do what Marvel Comics is doing, creating franchises around individual heroes but with an eye towards possibly bringing them together somewhere down the road: The studio is set to announce its plans for future DC movies in the next... Read more

Little birdies are telling me that there will be no press screenings for the futuristic action movie Babylon A.D. before it opens in North America three days from now. However, the film, which is based on a French novel and was directed by a Frenchman, opened in France six days ago, so a few reviews have popped up already, in Variety and elsewhere. The critics who have seen the film say it’s a disappointment, and they aren’t the only ones.... Read more

Here are the figures for the past weekend, arranged from those that owe the highest percentage of their take to the Canadian box office to those that owe the lowest. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 — CDN $4,970,000 — N.AM $38,257,000 — 13.0%Mamma Mia! — CDN $14,900,000 — N.AM $124,458,000 — 12.0%Death Race — CDN $1,280,000 — N.AM $12,293,000 — 10.4%Tropic Thunder — CDN $6,290,000 — N.AM $65,668,000 — 9.4%Pineapple Express — CDN $6,820,000 — N.AM $73,928,000 —... Read more

The casual blasphemy was one thing, but this, via Lou Lumenick at the New York Post, is completely unacceptable: It’s not unusual for a movie to be re-edited after its premiere at a film festival — “The Wackness” lost four minutes — but “Hamlet 2” may be the first movie where the main character’s nationality was altered. When it premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, Steve Coogan’s character, a failed actor who teaches drama at a high school... Read more

I was already vaguely interested in Knowing, which is currently scheduled to hit theatres in March of next year, simply because of the premise and the fact that it is directed by Alex Proyas, whose Dark City was my favorite film of 1998. (Alas, I have not yet had a chance to check out the “director’s cut” that came out last month.) But today Carmen Andres alerted me to the fact that one of the writers on this film is... Read more

Two new items on Terminator Salvation, both courtesy of the MTV Movies Blog. First, director McG discusses the movie’s title: Broadly, of course, the title makes sense the same way “Judgment Day” made sense for the second film: on a worldwide scale — Judgment Day being shorthand for the apocalypse, etc, etc. So after the Judgment comes the salvation, the redemption from the sins of our collective past. Man created the robots, the robots destroyed man, and now man needs... Read more