That Hollywood has gone overboard with remakes is no surprise. But when it comes to re-booting 1987’s beloved coming of age film Dirty Dancing — as Lionsgate Films and director Kenny Ortega are planning to do — it’s not just as simple as reading the directions on the tin. I mean, I remember not being allowed… Read More Why Remaking Dirty Dancing is a Filthy Idea
Cowboys & Aliens — a play on, and definitely playing with, “Cowboys and Indians” — is perhaps the most self-explanatory title since Snakes on a Plane. Before you even set foot in the theater, you know what you’re in for: cowboys and aliens. Anyone going in with loftier expectations will, no doubt, be disappointed. This… Read More Saddle Up For Cowboys & Aliens
The more I travel, the more I realize how much I detest playing tourist. I like to soak in a city by hanging out with local friends, immersing myself in daily life, instead of rushing off to snap photos of whatever architectural or natural wonders are touted in the travel guides. When I went to… Read More Taking in the Sights (and Sounds, and Tastes)
I have this habit of making up characters’ back story or motivation in my head, and then watching their shows with that filter in place. I can’t help it. It sticks. A great example of viewers who have done this in the past would be X-Files Mulder/Scully ‘shippers who speculated that the duo canoodled in… Read More Canon fodder: back story and missing scenes
General Hospital recently experienced a shift in writing regimes, wherein longtime head writer Robert Guza, Jr. was replaced by former breakdown writer and ex-associate head writer Garin Wolf. This led to my friend Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (you can read her thoughts here) and I spending a few hours brainstorming what we’d like to see in… Read More Mala’s Port Charles Perfect 10
Every once in a while I actually say something on Twitter that’s a) mildly profound or b) potentially worthy of being put on a t-shirt. Thought I’d do a little round-up of recent tweets that tickled my fancy. Riddle me this: Why would the Secret Service have a Twitter account? Isn’t that counterintuitive? #threecankeepasecretifnoneareonTwitter 12:05… Read More The Tao of Mala: Twitter round-up
After coming out of Thor, which was a satisfying summer blockbuster — particularly when seen for half-price at an AMC theater before noon — I had one major observation: that Natalie Portman‘s Jane Foster is the least convincing female scientist since The World Is Not Enough‘s Dr. Christmas Jones in 1999. Today, I had a… Read More Me Skeptic, you Jane: dumb choices for smart roles
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