Perhaps not as totally amazing as watching Firefly with beer, but check out the Buffy musical on the big screen, coming soon to an excellent theater near you.

Finally, someone has notched a kill against the F-22.

Go read. And enjoy the headline. Yee-haw.

From AICN:

The movie isn’t flawless. It clocks in at 2 hours and 18 minutes, making it the shortest of the series. . .

The longest book becomes the shortest movie? Quint also writes, “Neville’s involvement in the prophecy is completely removed and the occulemency lessons with Snape are significantly pared down.”

Those are two important things, no?

The small, annoying boombox Decepticon in Transformers may have left you nostalgic for Soundwave–one of the greats from the original series (and my first Transformer). Galley Reader E.H. sends along this behind the music video which shows what happened to the big guy:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TYzRanykbQ]

So who had “8 months” as the over-under for the how long until Sony slashed the price of the PS3?

This is pure, unadulterated panic. At this point, Sony has only sold a few million units. If they were going to lop $100 off of the price this soon, they should have done it from the start, ate the additional $400 million loss, and been in a position not to be dead in the water eight months into the next generation of game systems. Four years from now when Sony is trying to figure out how to resurrect their brand with the PS4 (prediction: I think they’ll drop the “PS#” from their next-gen console), that $400 million will look like a bargain.

Also, in furtherance of the argument that Sony is the Gang Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight, notice how they announce the price cute while simultaneously announcing another version of the $599 console–which is the price point that scared everyone away to begin with! Way to muddy the waters.

Also, also, as Galley Brother B.J. notes, “Nothing says ‘Fuck you’ to your base of early adopters like cutting the price less than a year into a new system.”

The only explanation for the following is that we have reached the End Times. Witness this: Leapin’ Lanny Poffo on Fox New Channel (courtesy of Galley Friend and Savage Family Superfan D.B.). Part 1:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD7YzSiAk18]

I love Rich Lowry. He’s super-smart and a great guy. But I really think it’s too much to ask that the man who sits in Bill Buckley’s chair also be equipped to handle the poet laureate of the WWF on life television. It’s like asking Irving Kristol to juggle chainsaws.

If God is just, Congress will hold hearings and we’ll get a parade of these guys on Capitol Hill.

* I’m about as excited for The Kingdom as I have been for a movie (non-Transformers division) in months. And raise your hand if you thought for a second during The Great White Hype that Peter Berg might turn out to be an important director.

* Jodi Foster as Batman? Sign me up. This looks about 20 times better than The Dark Knight.

* I’m not sure what I think of the Jan. 18 J.J. Abrams project, but I am kind of happy to know that if you try real hard you can keep something as big as a movie relatively secret. (One AICN talkbacker has already dubbed it The Godzilla Witch Project.” I hope that sticks.)

* And I’ll bet Wall E is great and everything, because it’s Pixar and isn’t loaded with celebrity voices (is it a coincidence that the two least good Pixar films are Bug’s Life and Cars?), but the robot looks a lot–I mean a lot–like the gyroscope robot sold with the original NES.

That little robot added an extra $50 to the system’s cost–which to an 11-year-old might as well have been an extra million bucks. And then Nintendo made two–2!–games for it.

I hate that robot.

* Little Ana Ivanovic held off a couple of match points and toughed it out against Nicole Vaidasova (Delta Delta Delta Can I Help Ya Help Ya Help Ya?) in a solid match. But the women’s side looks like a showdown between Justine Henin, who’s making a run at history, and Venus Williams, who looks as good as she ever has. Venus’s fourth round win over Maria Sharapova was dominant, probably the best performance of any woman in the tournament thus far.

* Watching Hewitt and Djokovic go at it this morning I was struck by how sometimes you watch a match and you’re just sad that someone has to win. Hewitt is slightly more bearable now that he’s been neutered (you wonder whether or not he realizes that he’ll probably never be in another major’s final), but Djokovic is particularly unpleasant because he’s looking like he could be the transitional champ once Federer begins to break down in a few years.

Leaving aside Djokovic’s Paul Orndorff-style pose-down, his game isn’t particularly inspiring. Very solid, very aggressive, good court coverage. He gets by, I think, with a lot of raw athleticism. For whatever it’s worth, I much, much prefer Richard Gasquet’s game–he’s smooth as glass.

* Speaking of which, why is it that we have to sit through every single Roddick blowout, but ESPN/NBC won’t show a second of either Gasquet of Baghdatis? I understand they’re not stars yet, but they might be soon. The next generation of studs–Gasquet, Baghdatis, Djokovic, Andy Murray, and Rafa, too–are very promising. Promising enough that I think we’ll be able to get a true measure of Federer’s greatness by seeing how he handles them in a couple years when he’s not at the height of his powers.

Still, I wouldn’t mind the chance to get to see more of them growing up on court.

(P.S.: Not that I have anything against Roddick. I like his game and I like him. Watching him burst on the scene for the first time at the 2001 U.S. Open was incredibly exciting–that giant, springing serve and his ridiculous, booming forehand. You could tell in about five minutes flat that he was a special player.)