Monthly Archives: February 2008

Enrique Iglesias On His Singing Career

In my father’s case, I think he’s going to die onstage and I respect that very much. In my case, in 15 years I’ll prob­a­bly look ridicu­lous singing ‘Bail­amos’ (‘Let’s Dance’).” — Enrique Igle­sias on his singing career.

WonderCon 08: J. Michael Straczynski and Starship Troopers: Marauder

Long-time attendee J. Michael Straczyn­ski was on hand to dis­cuss how busy he has been the past year. He wrote a few screen­plays cur­rently in var­i­ous stages of pro­duc­tion, includ­ing one directed by Clint East­wood (The Changeling) and the other being World War Z, in addi­tion to his con­stant comic book writing.

This is the first Straczyn­ski panel I’ve been to, despite my many years going to Won­der­Con, and he seems very friendly and approach­able. He also has a pretty devout fanbase.

WonderCon 08: “Behind the Scenes of Beowulf” and The Spectacular Spider-Man

If you watched Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf, you would have been amazed by the com­puter ani­ma­tion and spe­cial effects like I was. The cre­ative VFX team from Sony Pic­tures Image­works pro­vided an ‘as thor­ough as an hour-long pre­sen­ta­tion could be’ break­down of some of the chal­lenges they faced with such advanced com­puter animation.

WonderCon 08: 10,000 B.C., Get Smart, Shutter, and The X-Files 2 Sneak Peeks

Comic books are the convention’s main theme, and with Hol­ly­wood jump­ing on board for new sto­ries, it’s no won­der that stu­dios would also pro­vide sneak peeks for upcom­ing movies and the stars who come out cause lots of excitement.

This doesn’t apply to all Hol­ly­wood movies, just the ones that would appeal to comic book nerds. Comic book movie adap­ta­tions are a must. Sci­ence fic­tion as well.

Tim Cain On The Rock At The 2008 Oscars

I’ll go out on a limb and sug­gest this is the clos­est The Rock ever gets to an Oscar.” — Tim Cain live-blogging the 2008 Oscars.

How Do I Get My Michelle Ryan Without Bionic Woman?

NBC can­cels Bionic Woman and Tan The Man no longer has any reg­u­lar way of watch­ing Michelle Ryan on the television.

A Brief Look At The Wire Season 5

For each of the past four sea­sons, show cre­ator David Simon has con­tin­ued to build on his char­ac­ters and their sto­ries that inter­twine and affect Bal­ti­more, Mary­land. While much of the show includes Baltimore-specific items like slang and what=not, many of the ideas aren’t Baltimore=specific and are asso­ci­ated with other large met­ro­pol­i­tan areas. The show revolves around Baltimore’s drug prob­lem and how it affects every­one (from the cops to the politi­cians to the cit­i­zens and even to the drug deal­ers and cor­ner boys themselves).