Dan's Media Digest

THE MOVIE TIMELINE

I stumbled upon quite an interesting find yesterday, a project from Paul Kerensa called The Movie Timeline -- which anyone can contribute to. It basically lists events in the movies chronologically against a timeline of the world (but ignoring real world events, unless featured in a film, of course.)

It's quite funny when you realize just what happens in the "movie world" at the exact same time! Some of the best examples he quotes are:

Who’d have thought that while Gangs of New York’s Amsterdam Vallon was killing Butcher Bill, down the road Abraham Lincoln was being kidnapped by Bill & Ted…

And lucky Al Capone -- he was sent to Alcatraz by Eliot Ness just in time to miss King Kong rampaging around New York…

Andy Dufresne was wrongly sentenced to Shawshank a few short months before someone else was framed -- Roger Rabbit…

Quite an exhaustive website, perhaps too difficult to find the good stuff amidst the sheer volume of entries, and too text-heavy for my liking (funny graphics depicting some of the "events" would be great)... but persevere and there are some nuggets of gold in here for movie geeks...

DMD - Issue 171

Yes, it's that time again; the 171st issue of Dan's Movie Digest is now available online thanks to DVD Fever. Here you'll find news on the Knight Rider movie, the adaptation of His Dark Materials, Resident Evil 3 and Transformers voice casting. There's also the usual US/UK box-office charts and a selection of movies coming soon...