Fringe’s Etta - Georgina Haig

Fringe’s Etta - Georgina Haig

One of the best casting additions to Fringe this season has been Georgina Haig playing Peter and Olivia’s daughter of fifteen years in the future. Anna Torv has been called Fringe’s Aussie beauty and the interesting thing about Georgina is that she is also from Australia. Anyone else notice a lot of good acting talent is coming out of Australia lately?

As with Anna, I cannot tell in the show that Georgina is Australian. In fact I didn’t know it until recently. That is pretty amazing to me as I personally cannot realistically simulate any other accent on my American english so to see these…

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‘The Dark Knight’ vs. ‘The Avengers’

‘The Dark Knight’ vs. ‘The Avengers’
The New Yorker

It’s worth adding that Pfister admits that he’s “not a big super hero fan. In terms of the movie-going experience for me, I love the realistic stuff because it’s just that much less formulaic.” That may indeed be so—yet Joss Whedon gets far more nuanced emotion from his characters and situations (and, for that matter, more interesting political allegory) in “The Avengers” than Nolan does in “The Dark Knight Rises,” and, as impressive as some of the on-set tricks of “Inception” were, none evoked the joyful awe of Iron Man’s climactic rocketing through the atmosphere near the end of “The…

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‘Wanted 2’ - I Don’t Really Want It

‘Wanted 2’ - I Don’t Really Want It
FilmoFilia.com

So, Haas is now finishing the second draft of the script together with his writing partner Michael Brandt, and as I mentioned up above, the movie will center on McAvoy’s character Wesley who’s now (and that’s like four years later) recruiting a young woman who is in his situation in the first movie.

No no no no no no no no no…

I. Do. Not. WANT. This. Movie. Seriously, Wanted was a horrible, horrible film and I do not see how a sequel to such a terrible movie could be any better. Hey, I’ve got an idea: call me crazy, but why don’t we focus on making some good films, creating new and…

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‘The Hobbit’ First TV Spot

‘The Hobbit’ First TV Spot

“In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit.”

We’re going to, “see how it all began,” this December 14, and here’s a little more taste of what we’ll be seeing.

 

Steven Spielberg and John Williams Composing ‘E.T.’

Steven Spielberg and John Williams Composing ‘E.T.’

While I am not a fan of E.T. even I have to admit this is pretty cool stuff, watching the masters of their craft talk through scenes and how they should sound, how to invoke the right emotion, whether the music should go up or down. It’s all very cool stuff.

And oh my goodness, that old film projector. Awesome! It’s worth watching just for that.

 

‘Alcatraz: The Complete Series’

‘Alcatraz: The Complete Series’
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Alcatraz: The Complete Series DVD

When San Francisco Detective Rebecca Madsen (Sarah Jones) is assigned to a grisly murder, a fingerprint leads her to an Alcatraz inmate who died over 30 years ago. Once the enigmatic government agent Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) tries to impede her investigation, Madsen turns to Alcatraz expert Dr. Diego “Doc” Soto (Jorge Garcia), to help her piece together the inexplicable sequence of events.

This just makes me sad. This was such a great series and I loved it so much. It had a short first season and ended on a cliffhanger, a good cliffhanger… and it…

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‘Thor 2’ and ‘Iron Man 3’ Spoilers

‘Thor 2’ and ‘Iron Man 3’ Spoilers
/Film

While Marvel has recently released official plot descriptions for Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World, they’re both filled with lots of double speak. Sweeping claims that give absolutely no specifics about the characters or situations in the movie. This, of course, is by design because most people don’t want to read spoilers so far removed from the film’s release, especially when each movie is still shooting.

But there are the intrepid few who eat up spoilers like candy and an insider let a bunch of new details slip regarding the next two Marvel movies. Andrew Lawden, an actor and Marvel…

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The Making Of ‘Lincoln’

The Making Of ‘Lincoln’

Lincoln is an upcoming 2012 biographical war drama film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Daniel Day-Lewis as United States President Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln. The film is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography of Lincoln, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, and covers the final four months of Lincoln’s life.

Steven Spielberg was interviewed for 60 Minutes in honor of his upcoming film release. While his life story, his relationship with his parents, and his approach to filmmaking which borrows from his childhood are certainly…

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‘Buffy’ Writer/Producer Marti Noxon Working on Pixar Film

‘Buffy’ Writer/Producer Marti Noxon Working on Pixar Film
/Film

Marti Noxon is best known for her work on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, for which she wrote a couple dozen episodes and quickly rose through the producer ranks, to the point where she was the showrunner for the show’s last two seasons. She’s worked on other shows as well: Mad MenGrey’s AnatomyAngel, and Glee among them.

Noxon has moved into feature writing of late, with the script for Craig Gillespie’s Fright Night remake, and work on the script for I Am Number Four as well. But now she’s earned a great opportunity, as Pixar’s senior development executive Mary Coleman recently announced…

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‘Stargate’ Wedding Ring - Revel in the Geekery

‘Stargate’ Wedding Ring - Revel in the Geekery
Neatorama

Hopefully a marriage joined with this ring will last more than 38 minutes. The Seattle-based company Wedding Band Designs says that the inner ring spins like a real stargate!

Okay, wow. I have no reason to link to this other than just the utter absurdity of such a thing. I love me some Stargate, but I sure wouldn’t be interested in a Stargate wedding ring.

Still, you have to marvel at the sheer nerdery involved here.