Since Stephen Fry got stuck in a lift a couple of weeks ago, tweeting his way through the incident in his typically droll fashion, and first reports of that plane landing in the Hudson were circulated via the social networking site, Twitter has scarcely been out of the news – not in and of itself news.
What clearly is news and caught our eye this week is that Graham Linehan (the brilliant comedic mind behind Father Ted and The IT Crowd) will tonight launch The Bad Movie Club.
The premise is simple and brilliant – at nine o’clock sharp followers of Glinny (Linehan's twitter id) and friends will sit down and press play on the 86 minute version of The Happening (it turns out there’s some kind of director’s cut on the dvd – god help us!) tweeting as they watch - Charlie Brooker (tweets as charltonbrooker) has already described it as a movie 'with concussion'... check them out to see what light and hilarity the great hive-mind of twitter can make of Shyamalamalan's incredibly potent dose of portentous claptrap. Join in yourself by including the tag #badmovieclub in all your twitter updates.
... and make sure you’re following Screenrush for all the latest news, trailers and interviews.
also Linehan's just put up some guidelines on his blog: http://whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com/
SL
