Superheroes and Celebrity Resurrection: SpoutBlog Week in Review
Contrary to the connotations of that headline, we did talk about something other than Robert Downey Jr this week.
- We’re giving away a Wii at the main site.
- Oh, Iron Man. You were beloved. You were remixed. Your best moment came after the credits. Your fans were more realistic about the nature of fantasy than women who are really into Sex and the City.
- 10 Avengers who should be in the Avengers movie.
- The Tribeca Film Festival recapped.
- Michel Gondry might have won a Webby for it, but we still don’t care about Sweding.
- Heath Ledger will haunt the Cannes market. Maybe while he’s there, he can pick up European distribution rights on Donnie Darko 2. Also, lots of people are buying Joker toys.
- Anna Nicole Smith comes back from the dead in what has to be the meta-est biopic of a former stripper ever made. Probably.
- How Brawndo lept through the screen.
- Lloyd Kaufman fights Tribeca. In a chicken suit.
- Oliver Stone hasn’t cast DIck Cheney yet, but his Bush movie nonetheless comes out in 5 months.
- So far, nobody likes Indiana Jones and the Kid From Transformers Props Up A Walking Corpse. Except for those who are using it as a vacation guide.
- Warner Brothers closed its 2 remaining stand-alone indie arms.
- The Simpsons go to Sundance.
- The best trailers of the year.
- On the podcast: a Warholian read of Speed Racer.
- The Tracey Fragments and Ellen Page as double-edged sword.
- The feminist read of Jessica Alba.
- Groundhog Day in politics, in 5 Seconds.
- Glenn Kenny lost his job, got a new blog.
- Festival lineups: Los Angeles, CineVegas
- Harold and Kumar advertorial on Keith Olbermann.
- The Met restores nerdiness to superhero culture.
- John Cusack to Diablo Cody: “Liz Phair lied to my face, why can’t you?”
- Mister Lonely is making money.
- Praising Battle For Haditha.
- Trailers: Tokyo!, Iron Sky
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Sweding was a cool concept within the movie; it’s just that, in real life, nobody is that funny or clever.