So, Five Little Pigs

Five Little Pigs was filmed in 2003, so we're getting to the current cast of usual suspects in terms of Hey It's One of Those Guys. And this was a Those Guys-studded production. It was also studded with cuteness. Okay, to start with, there's



Talulah Riley, my new favourite little-known actress, who will be in that new St. Trinian's movie and was also in an episode of Miss Marple.

Also



Toby Stephens and Marc Warren, both instantly recognisable of course. (Toby Stephens' mom, Dame Maggie Smith, coincidentally starred in the non-Suchet bigscreen version of a Poirot mystery, Death on the Nile).

Next was this guy -



Aiden (Wax says with an 'e' but IMDb says with an 'a') Gillen, who's cute and Irish and was in QAF UK. Then



...two people whom I thought I recognised, but I haven't actually seen them in anything. In the first case, Julie Cox, I'm not sure why, but in the second it's because she looks a hell of a lot like Rose Byrne (Troy, Attack of the Clones). It's not her, though - it's Rachael Stirling.



Finally there's this stunning girl who looks like Gwen Stefani, Aimee Mullins. I knew at once I hadn't seen her because she only has 4 screen credits, but I was surprised to see her in a whole host of talk shows, and named one of People's most beautiful people as well. So I clicked on "Trivia" and discovered that she's a paraplegic and double-amputee (both legs below the knee, which you couldn't tell at all in the movie) and world-record-setting Paralympic Athlete who competed against able-bodied peeps in track and field while in college. Surprise trivia! Also, she's wearing a really cool dress in the scene with the gun.


Moar caps of everyone

GUYS. *_*

Stowaway kitten takes plane ride in suitcase.

Awesome or awesome?

pirouette gracefully

I was listening to the commentary on the first Sea Hawk episode and J. Michael Stracyznski related how they originally brought in consultants to develop a concept for a He-Man spinoff aimed at girls.

"You can't hit anything and you can't kick anything," said the consultants, "for girls. You can pirouette gracefully, but you can't kick."

"What did you say?" asked the host of the commentary track.

"As soon as the consultants were gone I turned to someone or other," said JMS, "and said, 'You know, I think we should bring in some girls... to kick the consultants.'"

Amen.

I noticed in an early episode Frosta spent the night in Adora's tent - surprise support for my crack otp, yay! But I had forgotten the Sea Hawk episodes. And srsly... him? He's so lame. And what's with the stupid hair and mustache? >|

Jumper

There are big features on it in Total Film and Empire this month. I couldn't read more than a quarter of either one because of my vision pinking out with rage.

We're talking one of the most pivotal science fiction novels of my childhood, and no, Empire, it isn't a "teen" novel, just because like so many others it's been inexplicably re-released under a teen imprint. If you've got a brilliant novel with a brilliant premise and you're like hey, let's make a movie about that, here's an idea: why not borrow more from the book than 1) the protagonist's name, 2) his girlfriend's name, and 3) the fact that he can teleport? In terms of plot the movie's going to have about as much in common with the novel as my SGA fanfic about teleportation.

A black sticky-note of hate is going on my mental Doug Liman file.