 In honor of Sex Week, CC2K contributor Jack Hork names his picks for the hottest cartoon/comic/animation babes who made the jump into the live-action world. If there’s one thing I know about, it’s romance…long walks, holding hands, scented candles, warm baths, foreplay, all that phony-baloney shite. However, merging pop culture... Read more |
 A royale with cheese of a movie.
I liked this movie the first time I saw it when it was called Shoot ‘Em Up but you know what? I think I actually liked it better the second time around when it was called From Paris with Love.
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 The lifeless script for Masters of the Universe has some real potential, but it threatens to make a flying leap into the dustbin of history – or in this case, the dustbin of bad fantasy movies. SPOILERS! MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!
Despite a story that unearths some of the... Read more |
 Here's another good look at Jeff Bridges in Tron Legacy. Read more |
Avatar and The Hurt Locker lead the way.
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 I believe I've pinpointed my picks for the Academy Award nominations fairly accurately. I think this may be the easiest time I've ever had in figuring out who and what will be nominated, even WITH the 10 Best Picture nods. For some reason, it's all very clear – and... Read more |
 Mel Gibson's return to the big screen isn't bad, but it won't return him to the A-list. On the surface, Edge of Darkness might seem like your typical violent revenge thriller, but it actually has some intriguing layers and surprising twists that get your full attention.
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 CC2K compares two potential scripts that would bring back Conan the Barbarian. Which script holds the secret of steel?
Let's turn back the clock six years. It's 2003, Arnold Schwarzenegger still plies his trade as an actor, John Milius has completed a script for a third Conan film... Read more |
 My relationship with horror movies is short and unpleasant, and as strange as it may seem, it began in the playroom of my childhood home. I was four-years-old on the day in question. The house was empty except for me and my father, and we... Read more |
Adventure games decided my career. Or perhaps it would be better to say they decided my lack of career. Adventure games were born around the same time I was: in 1984, when I was still screaming out my frustration at my parents over my inability to walk or speak,...
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 One of the things I love about writing for CC2K is that I've had the opportunity to read scripts for movies. Some are for projects that are only beginning production or are still long from it, and others that ultimately went unrealized, having never gotten beyond the writing stage. This... Read more |
 In this classic article from April Fools' Week, CC2K exposes this famous novel as a sexist male fantasy tale masquerading as a "sensitive" female-centric love story. A word from the nominator, Jack Hork: For April Fools' Week, I am offering up a piece of pop culture that transcended itself in its... Read more |
 As phenomena go, the act of attempting to re-create for oneself the success already achieved by another is as common as it is understandable. We see this all the time, and it’s not always the fault of the copycat. Sure, there are plenty of creative people out... Read more |
 I have a problem every time I sit down to read the Harry Potter books. I find myself unsatisfied with the stories as they are written. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them. I’m rather passionate about them, and I’ll leap into discussion of the Potter canon... Read more |
So you say you just don’t know enough about the Cleveland underworld, circa 1970? And then you say you’ve never heard of gangster Danny Greene, but you’d like to learn? Well, here ya go, chaps. Dive into The Irishman, a new screenplay about just such subjects, written by Jonathan...
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British dance-pop duo Basement Jaxx’s—Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe—fifth album, Scars, came out in September with the heavily promoted single “Raindrops” stealing air waves at top clubs and dance halls. It’s also the only song on the new album that doesn’t share production or performance credits, as the rest...
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 James Cameron’s Avatar, if ever made into a movie that remotely approaches the 170-page “scriptment” I have just finished reading, will bomb. Notice I don’t say it will suck. It might be entertaining, in a big-spectacle way, as nobody does spectacle like the King of the World. It might be... Read more |
 In this SPOILER-FILLED review, CC2K looks at the script for the propsed remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street.
Remakes: a legitimate form of artistic expression through reinterpretation, or an indication of ultimate stagnation? A chance for some of your favorite actors/directors to let you see a beloved piece... Read more |
 The big-budget biopic eschews nuance in favor of myth. I suppose that I know as much about Abraham Lincoln as the next American. I know him by his nicknames, “Honest Abe” and “The Great Emancipator.” I know he served as President during the Civil War and was the first U.S.... Read more |
 CC2K takes a look at a draft of the new script by Thomas Dean Donnelly and Joshua Oppenheimer. When you hear the name Conan, what pops into your head? The original Weird Tales pulps? The 70’s Lancer paperbacks with the great Frazetta cover art? Perhaps the Marvel comic? Or, for... Read more |
 ALERT! SPOILERS AHEAD!
There's not an original idea to be found in the surprisingly spry new horror flick Paranormal Activity, and that's OK.
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 Click HERE to read the intro to In Praise of the Classics Click HERE to read about the brilliance of Anna Karenina Click HERE to read about the dysfunctional love of Wuthering Heights Click HERE to read an essay about, and like, Ulysses Click Read more |
 About halfway through my interview with Lone Scherfig, the director of An Education, a giant fluffy poodle walked by where were sitting. I barely noticed, but she was exuberant. She said, “That could be a souvenir. I did buy the Obama t-shirt, now I’m going to buy the giraffe-sized poodle.”... Read more |
 One of my favorite writer/directors is gong to helm an episode of Glee: Joss Whedon.
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The Green Lantern movie is taking shape as Jackie Earle Haley joins the cast as the Lucifer of the corps.
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 CC2K's resident Pop Culture Editor Sal Crivelli checks in with a review of the script for the planned sequel to the cult favorite Bubba Ho-tep, but does this movie stand a chance without Bruce Campbell?
In the process of reading Bubba Nosferatu: Curse of the She-Vampires (God, I love... Read more |
 H.P. Lovecraft . . . he's hot . . . .he's sexy . . . and he's DEAD!! Well, two outta three ain't bad. It seems odd that one of the single most influential writers of modern times doesn't get more recognition. Everyone knows the... Read more |
 Every week, there are a multitude of books being released from multiple different publishers. And while we here at CC2K like to provide as many reviews as our limited numbers can provide, there is always one book that is the cream of the crop. Comics are expensive, and so is... Read more |
 There's a quiet, cozy center in the human brain that Dan Brown's novels have a great way of probing that the movies can't.
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 An examination of the bad (and good) arguments for why Watchmen doesn't work.
The reviews of Watchmen from the geek community have been mixed, and for a lot of very, very stupid reasons. Join me after the jump to find out what I mean.
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