You want to hear something sick? I only JUST READ the Lorax for the first time this past year. Yup. To my daughter. I’d always known of it, but somehow this book evaded me in my younger years. One way or the other, it was quite a treat to be able to partake as an adult looking through a child’s eyes. And this movie? Is going to be so good. So, so good. Who’s with me when they say “I don’t give a flying crap how old I am, I’m seeing this movie and even though Taylor Swift‘s in it, I’m going to just adore it”?
Am I the only one who has kind of a hard time understanding what Courtney says during most interviews? Like, she’s got cotton balls stuffed in her cheeks or something? (I’d normally insert an inappropriate gagging on a penis joke here, but the girl’s still seventeen, despite being legally slammed by someone who could practically be her grandaddy.) Kids these days, am I right?
I am so excited about the Tim Burton remake of Tim Burton‘s Frankenweenie! I’m so excited, I can’t stop using exclamation points! The feature-length flick is currently in production, and Entertainment Weekly has this exclusive sneak peek. In the stills, you can clearly see the two main characters—Victor, the boy, and his dog Sparky—and I’m just so dazzled. I love this aesthetic; nobody nails it like Burton. It’s a little twee, but it’s still adequately bizarre. Perfect.
While the original Frankenweenie hardly needs to be remade—it’s timeless, it stands on its own, et cetera—I love that Burton has retained the black-and-white, vintage horror feel of the original. And I think most people are totally down with a stop-motion animated remake, anyway. I don’t know, I’m just really relieved: this seems like an earnest project, rather than a shameless cash-grab. (Planet of the Apes? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Some classics should never be reworked. Stop tinkering with them, Burton.)
For my own part, I totally grew up on Frankenweenie. I have no idea how it happened, but I went through a weird childhood phase where I only rented 1980s TV movies starring Shelley Duvall (Frankenweenie, Frog, Faerie Tale Theatre). Frankenweenie was a super formative movie for me, not only because it essentially ruined my sense of humor, but also because it’s about death and loss and grief, which are tricky subjects for kids. (Grown-ups, too.)
The Internet has completely lost its collective mind over this sneak peek from Life’s Too Short, a new sitcom from Ricky Gervais and collaborator Stephen Merchant.
The clip itself stars Gervais and Johnny Depp—two people who, lately anyway, have kinda set themselves up to be believably insufferable—so there’s plenty of schadenfreude here, a lot of devilish mirth. Ugh, I just hate those tinted sunglasses. And that hat! Does Johnny Depp really wear a hat like that, like, outside? What a doof.
Life’s Too Short is a mockumentary starring actor Warwick Davis—get it? Because Warwick Davis is really, really short? Don’t make me explain these things—with tons of celebrity cameos. The series arrives on BBC Two next month. And HBO has picked up the series, too! Yay! Aren’t you excited?
I thought we had something, Rosie, I really did. Sure, we’ve had our rough patches, but you know I’ve been hurt before, and besides, I didn’t think it was anything we couldn’t work through. But I’m sorry, Rosie, my dear. I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can forgive you for what you’ve done here.
What do you guys think about this beaded monstrosity? Does its horror surprise you as much as it did me, or do you not have as high an opinion of Rosie as I did?
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