No, I'm kidding. The subject line is meant to highlight the fact that we now have a full trailer for The Last Airbender ⚠️ ↗, and yes, there is a young girl in the movie, 14-year-old Nicola Peltz ⚠️ ↗, who plays Katara, Aang's girlfriend, who also happens to be a waterbender.
Waiting to see the new A Nightmare on Elm Street remake? Word is it's going to be good, and you can watch the trailer and read a bit about it here ⚠️ ↗. The new Freddy Krueger, everybody's favorite psychopathic teen-murdering dream demon, is played by Jackie Earl Haley, who seems to gravitate toward playing mentally unbalanced characters.
With all the focus on Tim Burton's take on Alice in Wonderland, you'd think there would be more articles about the source material and its author, but the media seems to be shying away from discussing Lewis Carroll or his famous book. But Annalee Newitz over at io9 did give us a nice meditation on the book's connections to the sci-fi subgenre of steampunk ⚠️ ↗. Newitz clearly admires the book and understands its vaunted place in the history of speculative fiction.
Another io9 contributor asks Will ⚠️ ↗Kick-Ass Kill Superhero Movies? The movie, which is due out next month and features Chloe Moretz as Hit-Girl, a pint-sized badass who kills criminals with her samurai sword and cusses like a sailor. No one in the movie has any actual superpowers, which is what makes some think we are now in a post-superhero phase. As for me, I think there'll be plenty of superheroes in cinema for years to come.
It looks like Fox won the film rights to Incarceron ⚠️ ↗, a speculative young adult novel in which an entire subset of the human population grows up in a giant secret prison. Sounds like it might have something to say about the growing prison population in our own country and its connection to the ever-widening rift in the upper and lower classes.
Finally, if you're looking for an online game, why not try Prius Online ⚠️ ↗, in which you help to raise a magical child. Of course, it might be difficult if you can't read Korean, but the plan is to make international versions of the game in the near future. Warning: the game is apparently so addictive that you might neglect your own flesh-and-blood children ⚠️ ↗!
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The Last MEDIA UPDATE
Posted by Lateralus on 2010-March-07 21:08:42 EST, SundayThis post is archived, preventing any new replies.
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