COLIN FIRTH & KEVIN SPATHEY IN ORWELL ADPT.
Kevin Spacey and Colin Firth are attached to star in an adaptation of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia, a story I’m happy to report, both because it’s an awesome book and because Variety couldn’t...
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Andy Serkis to direct and star in a mo-cap Animal Farm movie. My joke dreams...
YOU ARE A MONKEY, DEREK!Yes, folks, this is real. This is not a test of the Emergency Unintentional Parody System. Andy Serkis – the man who “played” Gollum and Caesar the chimp in Rise of Planet of...
View ArticleThug Notes: 1984
Sparky Sweets drops a critical summary and analysis of Big Brother keepin’ tabs on all yo sh*t. Previously: Thug Notes: To Kill a MockingbirdFiled under: Videos Tagged: 1984, Books, funny, GEORGE...
View ArticleThug Notes: Animal Farm
Sparky Sweets goes H.A.M. on Animal Farm by Goerge Orwell.Filed under: Videos Tagged: ANIMAL FARM, GEORGE ORWELL, SPARKY SWEETS, THUG NOTES
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Kristen Stewart’s In A ‘Romantic’ Remake Of ‘1984’ With Jennifer Lawrence’s...
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.” Kristen Stewart is poised to bite her bottom lip and stare blankly ahead in Equals, an adaptation of an...
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A Shaky-Cam Expert Is Making Yet Another Movie Of ‘1984’
Columbia 1984 is arguably one of the most important science fiction novels ever written, and pretty much a complete nightmare to put on the big screen. Depending on whom you ask, there have been six...
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The Morning Read (4.06.09) Haley’s Krueger and the NY Times on Jody Hill
Warner Bros. So how was your weekend? Mine was nice, but not nearly as productive as it needed to be. Sort of the story of my life, I guess, but I really wish I had about seventeen extra copies of...
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TMR: Judd Apatow, Adam Sandler, Boosh and zombies, and who will be ‘The Hobbit’?
The New York Times Welcome to The Morning Read. Friday already. Which means next week is Comic-Con. Which means it’s time for me to hide under my bed and weep, just to get it out of my system,...
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Paul Greengrass attached to George Orwell’s ‘1984,’ which we’re basically...
MGM Home Entertainment “Big Brother is Watching You,” wrote George Orwell in his eternal novel “1984.” If only the author had lived to see “CITIZENFOUR.” As the age of NSA snooping comes into the...
View ArticleOn this day in pop culture history: BOTH ‘Ghostbusters’ and ‘Gremlins’ premiered
It was 32 years ago today that not one but two classic horror comedies opened in theaters. Yes, Ghostbusters was released on the same day as Gremlins. It”s hard to believe that these two movies opened...
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George Orwell’s ‘1984’ Is Now A #1 Best Seller Again Thanks To Trump’s...
Getty Image 1984, a fictional novel by George Orwell published in 1949, tells the story of a dystopian future society called Oceania in which citizens are subjected to government surveillance and...
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