Shield Yourselves

The operatic , hopped-up, almost surreal evil twin of The Wire has been prone to slippage since Season 3, with the reek of contrivance and the amount of corn getting a bit too rank for comfort in Season 6, but next to David Simon's untouchable masterpiece, The Shield is the cop show you should be watching. And very little TV approximates its thick sense of doom.

And now it's coming to an end,too.

Knowledge

I've been voguing on Knowing ever since it was name-checked as Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko follow-up. The vastly underrated Alex Proyas just wrapped a few weeks ago and is deep into post with it.

Here's the lowdown: schoolkids put drawings in a time capsule and 50 years other it gets cracked one and one of the drawings turns out to accurately and anally predict every major disaster since and some that haven't happened yet. Voltage for geeks, goes without saying, despite being a Nicolas Cage movie.

Oh, and Rose Byrne's in it. Can't wait.

AMBUSH!!

I just read Ambush Bug Year None #1. Warning... Here's the side-effect:

God Speaks . . .Again

Alan Moore, yes that Alan Moore, on his favorite show on TV:

"The Wire is the most stunning piece of television that has come out of America, possibly the most stunning piece of television full-stop.

(It's) grown-up television! It's novelistic. You get to find out about all these tiny different aspects of Baltimore, to build up a huge picture of the city with all of its intricacies — from the wharf side, to the kids in the projects, to the power structure with the boardrooms and police department and governor's office. And it's got some great writers: It's got George Pelecanos and David Simon. And so many wonderful characters, Bubbles, Omar.

So yeah, everything else looks pretty lame next to The Wire."

Also thinks South Park is the bomb.

Oh,if only the rest of the planet would listen, Mr. Moore, and stop watching Gray's Anatomy.

Also on Heroes, from some other interview: "I was persuaded to watch (Heroes) by people who said it nods to Watchmen but God, what a load of rubbish! It's a late-70s X-Men at best and full of terrible ideas and characters who've all been done to death. Beyond death. And the writing shows such contempt for the viewer. The climax, a man who is going to explode is carried off into the air by his brother... did anybody bother to compare the effects of a groundburst with an airburst nuclear explosion? I'll take the former over the latter, thanks. This is supposed to be the sort of thing that superhero stories are good at. I tell you, if we are ever threatened with a scenario like that in real life I hope the superheroes aren't American because we'll be sunk."

Oh and some nice words he has to say on the 300 movie: "Racist, homophobic and sublimely stupid."

Heh.

More here.

Keep On Trekkin'

Watching the Watchmen

Over and over. The Watchmen trailer. Gasp.

Bianchi Does Ellis

Lipton Meets Hell

Robotech!

News from Scifi.com. Good or bad? It could go either way - but Tobey Maguire as Rick Hunter...that is good news! And I wonder who will play Minmei?

Kasdan To Adapt Robotech

Veteran screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan has been hired to write Robotech, Warner Brothers' feature-film adaptation of the anime classic, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Akiva Goldsman and Chuck Roven are boarding the project as producers, joining Tobey Maguire and Drew Crevello.

Robotech was a 1980s cartoon series from Harmony Gold USA and Tatsunoko Productions. It was re-edited and re-dialogued to combine three Japanese anime series to give the producers enough episodes to air as a daily syndicated series.

A sprawling SF epic, Robotech takes place at a time when Earth has developed giant robots from the technology on an alien spacecraft that crashed on a South Pacific isle. Mankind is forced to use the technology to fend off three successive waves of alien invasions. The first invasion centers on a battle with a race of giant warriors who seek to retrieve their flagship's energy source, known as "protoculture," and the planet's hope for survival ends up in the hands of two young pilots.

Robotech extends Kasdan's return to the fantasy genre that began last year, when he was tapped to pen the Clash of the Titans remake for Warner and Thunder Road. Kasdan wrote the screenplays for Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark before writing The Big Chill and Grand Canyon.

Toy Con 08

Thor, Wilmer, and I just went nuts....

REVOLTECH Transformers: Hot Rod and Starscream

Custom Barbies by Chaz Coloma of Action Figures Philippines . He gave me Ms. Marvel.

Galactus. Not so gigantic but better than the cloud.

Kingdom Come Reactivated Superman

I got Wonder Woman (JSA) at the Con

Sensie Kakashi