--I love Sci Fi Wire's crazy, crazy list features. The cereal one from the other day is going to be tough to top, but today's "movie and TV clowns that scared the hell out of us" is pretty fantastic. Or it would be, if clowns didn't already scare the crap out of me. Kudos for including Pennywise from Stephen King's "It" and -- more importantly -- the Killer Klowns from "Killer Klowns from Outer Space." Another door?!?! (Sci Fi Wire)
--All this month, Cinematical is highlighting the top bad guys in movies -- "Villains We Love," as they call it. Today's pick is a special one for me, since it comes from Tim Burton's "The Nightmare Before Christmas." MTV Gore Girl Jenni Miller writes of villain Oogie Boogie, "He's a singing, dancing sack full of worms with a striped tongue." That sounds about right. Head over to Cinematical for a great meditation on the glory of Oogie Boogie. (Cinematical) Read More...
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-- Oh Kanye West. You reap what you sow, that's all I can say. You 
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-- At last night's 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, hip-hop superstar Kanye West... well... he kinda 
-- Here's a nice, little, admittedly objective runthrough of the 25 best book-to-film adaptations on record. The picks are culled from across cinema's history, so you've got the 1939 adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" (at number 2) alongside the post-2000 adaptation of the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy (number 25). I have to say though, I'm terribly disappointed that the "Harry Potter" series (number 22) ranks higher than "Rings," and that Terry Gilliam's adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is conspicuously absent. (
-- Empire Online isn't technically a blog, but they do put together some reaully fun features. Features like "The 50 Greatest Movie Sequels," which pretty much speaks for itself. "Shrek 2" closes out the list, but the number one pick? Beating out "Godfather Part II" at number two, "Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back" at number six (BLASPHEMY!!!!) is James Cameron's "Aliens." Cameron gets two in the top 5, with "Terminator 2: Judgment Day" coming in at number three. (
-- In the pantheon of classic action movies, there is "Aliens" and there is "Die Hard." They're not the only ones of course, and I'm not entirely sure why those two live together -- maybe because both deal with trapped protagonists? -- but which one is better? It's the sort of question that movie nerds like me can debate into the wee hours of the morning. And that's exactly what George "El Guapo" Roush does in this feature for Latino Review. (