We’re counting down to the big budget remake of and homage to 1933’s King Kong. Peter Jackson, of course, isn’t the first to remake the classic adventure film. In addition to numerous knock-offs, Dino De Laurentiis produced this notorious remake, released during America’s bicentennial year.
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Movie Review: King of Kong Island
Originally titled Eva, la Venere selvaggia, and also released in English as Eve the Wild Woman and Kong Island, this disastrous 1968 jungle pic will receive a new DVD rerelease later this month, to cash in on the hype surrounding Jackson’s remake of King Kong.
Movie Review: Mighty Joe Young
We’re holding a King Kong Kountdown to the December 14 release of Peter Jackson’s epic remake. Today we review the original Mighty Joe Young, which involved several of the people responsible for the original King Kong. It’s not surprising, then, that this 1949 film should resemble its famous predecessor. However, the writers, director, and producers did not simply ape their memorable tale. Joe proves a more touching and thoughtful giant ape than Kong. The story, while less exciting than Kong‘s, holds up despite its period hokiness. Indeed, Walt Disney remade the film in 1998; this gorilla suits a family audience.
Movie Review: Son of Kong
We’re holding a King Kong Kountdown to the December 14 release of Peter Jackson’s epic remake, starting with the first sequel to the original, available on its own or as part of the King Kong Collection
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superstamps!
The U.S. Mail has announced a series of superhero stamps featuring well-known DC characters.
Capote in Kansas
This town is still bleeding. Did you expect them to thank you for ripping off the bandage?
On Saturday, November 15, 1959, Dick Hickocks and Perry Smith entered a Kansas farmhouse and brutally murdered four people whom they’d never met. Truman Capote spent the next six years investigating the story and produced In Cold Blood, the original true crime novel.
Capote in Kansas deals with the crime peripherally; instead, it tells a fictionalized version of Capote’s years of research and writing. In Parks and Samnee’s version, the ghost of one of the victims assists the author.
Battlestar Galactica– “Water”
Battlestar Galactica maintains the tension through the second episode, and deepens the puzzle of Boomer.
Battlestar Galactica: Bastille Day
The series falters a little with the third episode, though it still surpasses anything Enterprise has shown us.
Battlestar Galactica: “Act of Contrition”
What kind of offence is “Star-bucking?”*
–vaguely Irish female prisoner, 70s Galactica ep, “The Long Patrol.”
“Act of Contrition” (Part 1) juggles three timelines and provides us with small developments in two subplots, all while remaining coherent and maintaining a good pace. This ep also emphasizes character more than the series has previously. Specifically, this one’s about Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, and her guilt over a past act.
Battlestar Galactica: You Can’t Go Home Again
I think we had much of the discussion last week, owing to the fact that the Brits have already watched the first season, and the Americans are one week ahead of the Canucks– whose country, curiously, provides the show’s locations.
Anyway, the acting remains strong in Part 2, but the writing grows weaker.