May 31st 2002
I won't be a pill and post all the pics here, but check out what Entertainment Weekly has for us from Chamber of Secrets.... a pantload of new images! Am I happy? Is the Pope polish? Okay, they messed up Dobby pretty badly but otherwise it's all slicker than snot. It's right at the top, another Simpsons-Star Wars crossover, but not in the direction you think: May 30th 2002I have a new mission:  GENERAL MADINE I must possess General Madine and am growing tired of waiting for Hasbro to get in line. Therefore... I shall customize again. Da-DAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!! Meanwhile, according to Coming Attractions, it's about to be officially official: Indy IV, scripted by Frank Darabont, will be hitting your eyeballs on July 4, 2005, mere months after Episode III. Can any one man know such bliss? May 29th 2002Ugh. I haven't seen Star Wars since Sunday. Icky, yucky, nasty feeling. Centipedes on the skin. Ugh. May 28th 2002 HARRY! HARRY! HARRY! Get thee to Future Shop and buy Harry, twenty bucks for today only. As I was cashing out, literally everyone else in the three cashier lines - about a dozen people in total - was buying Harry Potter. Every single one. Now I must declare myself in the minority: the kid-oriented presentation of the disk tickles me greatly. It's a hell of a lot of fun; why all the griping? With Order of the Phoenix pushed off to '03 and Chamber of Secrets roaring into theatres this November, the biggest piece of Harry news is that the directing chores for Prisoner of Azkaban are rumoured to be falling to... Alfonso Cuaron. WHA?! Actually I hear A Little Princess is quite well-regarded, I'll have to check it out. Me, were I to go with an offbeat choice, I'd give the film to Agnieska Holland - her adaptation of The Secret Garden is fucking phenomenal, one of the best childrens' films I've ever seen. May 27th 2002This certainly qualifies for way-down-the-lane bullshit, but too juicy not to mention: Dark Horizons is reporting that Natalie Portman will be filming a sequence to be inserted in the Final Ultimate We Mean It This Time Edition of Return of the Jedi. Which leads to the thought: top ten ways to improve my favourite movie, "include Natalie Portman" has to be somewhere in the top three. Meanwhile, PTA wins best director at Cannes. MO-FO. And I have to wait another four months to see the film. DOUBLE MO-FO. (They're calling it his best so far... is that even possible?!) May 25th 2002Today's the 25th anniversary of Star Wars, and whaddaya know, my review of Attack of the Clones is ready. (My Episode I review took three months, so I think getting this one out in two weeks is pretty good!) May 23rd 2002
KEYBOARD A rabid fan of the VCR Quadrophony has made a VCR Fan Film. Called "Keyboard," it's.... good.... and stuff.... Check it out in the Tederick.com Theatre. May 22nd 2002Yes Giles! YES! YES! Quoth the Whedon: "A lot of people were confused at the end when Spike wanted his fish order changed. SOLE, people. Jeez. We HAVE a vampire with a SOUL, you think we're doing that again?" So as you can tell I was pretty happy with last night's ep. Now I have to do something I've never done before: wait five months for new Buffy. Argh and double grrr. May 20th 2002One wait ends, another begins. Bloomsbury has confirmed that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will not be released this year, but will make its long-awaited bow in 2003. Sigh. May 19th 2002So tonight's the big night and boy do I not care. Will Vee attack Kathy with a lightsabre? Probably not. Will Pappy instruct Neleh in the ways of the Force? I doubt it. Ergo: do I care? Negative. But I've done this before so I'll do it again. My accuracy is 50/50 this time around; I correctly guessed Sean, the General, Zoe, John, Gina, and Peter. So here it is: Kathy and Pappy get the boot, not necessarily in that order but I think so. Neleh and Vee face the finals.
Vee wins 4-3. And, no doubt, immediately throws herself on the grass of Central Park and starts sobbing and praising Jesus. Is that the way I want it to go? Helllllllllll no. In fact I'd rather see any of the other three win than Vee, so here's hoping I'm wrong. We also have The X-Files tonight, where Mulder returns and littile will be answered. I can't get the series finale of Seinfeld out of my head, which took place in a similar courtroom "let's look back at the series" style. And of course, thereby earned the distinction "worst episode ever." May 18th 2002Film really is dead. Unhindered by the artifacts of a transfer from a digital master to a film screening print, Attack of the Clones leaps off the screen when viewed in its original, digitally-projected format. It's an astonishingly pure image, testament to the fact that Lucas' efforts to completely digitize the production process, from photography to presentation, have paid off. I highly recommend checking out Episode II digitally at least once. May 17th 2002 After the attack.... So much has changed in the past week that I couldn't very well come back to the same Tederick.com. It's all here, somewhere... but.... who cares? Bone Daddy? What? What? There's a pantload of new photos in the Attack of the Clones section, including what may very well be THE BEST PICTURE EVER TAKEN. Spoiler warning, of course, remains in effect... but why haven't you seen the movie yet?! Yes, that was me on the news. And in the paper. Thanks to
everyone who has written to tell me they saw me.... ya couldn't slap a tape
in, though?! Subsumed in the Star Wars mire: the first official game of the inaccurately-named Ball Kickers, my soccer team. It was a fabulous game though. It poured the whole time, so the thing played out like some epic medieval battle. Next game's Monday night, maybe we can win this one. May 11th - May 17th 2002 May 10th 2002I'm tremendously disappointed to find that Canadian theaters - for reasons that I would really like someone to explain to me - are favouring Spider-Man over Star Wars next week. The Paramount, for example, is playing Star Wars on only one screen for its opening weekend, while it will continue to play Spider-Man on four. Further, it looks like midnight screenings will be few and far between in the city. So, I'm not sure where I'll end up next Wed/Thurs, but let me take a moment to give a big thumbs-down to Famous Players for their handling of this. Do they really think the third weekend of Spider-Man is going to outsell Episode II? May 9th 2002I've had enough of the Buffy-bashing, especially when I'd call this one of the best seasons ever... Who knew bleach was blue? May 8th 2002Today we have the very good, and the very bad. The Very Good
Mmmmmmmm.... Scaramouche. Went to Scaramouche last night, replicated my menu of last June. Was surprised to find that they've switched the bacon component of "3 Goat Cheeses, 3 Ways" to mushroom, making it all vegetarian. The change is an error, for all the reasons I cited last year; otherwise the dish still holds up fine. I think they've also messed around with the formula for the potatoes, but the filet mignon still kicks ass - call it "beef as butter." One person who wasn't there but should have been was Jason. For a documentary exploration of why this is funny, click HERE. Actually I don't think it will explain anything and I don't think you'll think it's funny, but we sure do. The Very Bad
SWEET FANCY MOSES! They killed Tara! Those bastards! Hiss! Spit! Cry! Sob! While the Big Scooby Death was of course bungled by the spoilerhounds months ago, it was still tremendously upsetting, and I was not expecting the attempted rape, so my mind just basically switched off and spent the night in a country I like to call Catatonia. They should have wasted Anya, I've had enough of her crap. I understand why they couldn't waste Xander. But not Tara! The final ignominy, the cruelest joke: adding her to the opening credits, as fans have been expecting since Season 4, for her last episode ever. Argh. May 7th 2002I'm going to be totally traumatized and therefore subverbal tonight, but in the meantime, let's reflect on happier times: here's my review of the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, which hits DVD today. Closing in on the hundred-hour-to-go mark, I received my ticket for the charity screening of Episode II today... scans have been added to the Attack of the Clones page! May 6th 2002Baby-Stealin' Gypsies will be screened at this year's Splice This! film festival, which, if I'm not mistaken, runs from June 21-23. More details as they arrive.... Today's the beginning of Week of Hell II, the second in a planned trilogy of truly hellish weeks. They all revolve around my plan to take next week off, resulting in true hellishness bookending the Week of Bliss. But then again, the Week of Bliss has clones. So who's complaining? So right now it's six o'clock, I just got home from a full day's work... and I have a full day's work ahead of me. Sigh. If Bearshark money wasn't buying my toys, I'd seriously consider the Hermit Strategy I developed back in '95. May 5th 2002As of this writing, one week, twelve minutes to go..... AAAAHHHHHH!!!! Gave Woogie a bath last night, which Adam documented. It's the latest in an increasingly-boring series of photo collections in the Tederick.com Gallery... Looking like Spider-Man's going to bag an unprecedented $115M opening weekend. I shall never forgive myself. May 4th 2002He's not a man shaped like a giant spider, and he's not a man with a fondness for a spider-shaped hat. No, he's a Spider-Man. It's Free Comic Book Day! So get out there, visit one of your local comic shops, and pick up your free issue. It's also drop-dead gorgeous in T.O. today, so enjoy. May 3rd 2002Let's raise one for Dr. Mark Greene, the only character in television history whose life was so miserable, killing him once wouldn't do it, so they had to kill him in two consecutive episodes. Yep, he's back next week, giving us the other side of the letter. Let's review:
Last night's episode was actually one of the best I've seen in a long while, because it had that quality that first attracted me to the show: the bizzarrely relentless environment where this strange community has grown up, like lichen on rock. Adaptation being the key. Go Carter go! May 2nd 2002Good news for everyone who, like me, spent last night weeping over the apparent demise of The Simpsons: they ain't going anywhere. But before we get ahead of ourselves, I'd like to take a moment to offer a big thumbs-down to Fox for their handling of the Simpsons DVD series. The release date for Season 2 has now been pushed back to August... after having been pushed back to July... after having been pushed back to June... etc. You get the idea. If the August date holds, the release will be eleven months after the release of Season 1 - at this pace, we'll be lucky to get through the whole series before the middle of the next decade. They promised a lot... and now they are failing miserably to achieve it. May 1st, 2002 I'll have one of these please. And thank you. So much. It has to happen sooner or later, but it's not something I like to contemplate: the end of The Simpsons. Of course, no one's saying it's over, but... let's be realistic... another couple of years? Here's a glimpse at Willow when she makes the switch over to Big Bad. Tara would be so disappointed:  Ewww. Veiny. Don't know exactly how I'm going to survive the next 20 days.... ARCHIVE |
