The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton (review)
This is one costume drama that franker and darker than you might expect.
Month: July 2007
Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List (review)
Comedian Kathy Griffin’s observations of the perils and pitfalls of sorta-fame… pile up into a hilarious puncturing of celebrity lifestyles and the public’s obsession with them.
some ‘Doctor Who’ humor…
…to keep you busy while I get around to Doctor Who blogging: Start here… …then go here. (Technorati tags: Doctor Who
‘Doctor Who’ blogging loses out to Harry Potter blogging
Never got to Doctor Who blogging this weekend cuz I was reading the new Harry Potter. Sorry. Check out my reaction to The Deathly Hallows over at Geek Philosophy. I may not get to DW till tonight or tomorrow.
more on Fox, Internet film critics, and fanboys
Twentieth Century Fox has not had the best relationship with critics lately, as I mentioned in the comments section of my post about The Simpsons Movie the other day. Now comes word that a boycott by critics and entertainment journalists against Fox’s movies is spreading, according to the Los Angeles Times: Online critics expand boycott … more…
Hairspray (review)
*Hairspray* couldn’t be more charming and joyous, more get-up-and-dance toe-tapping, more simply agreeable. If bringing Broadway to the masses works this well, well, why the hell not?
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (review)
Can the occasion of overgrown-fratboy goofball Adam Sandler and resolutely vanilla sitcom dad Kevin James in fagface be anything other than an invitation to laugh at icky queery flamboyant homos?
indie SF movies
“Science fiction” and “indie” don’t go together in the minds of many moviegoers … or in the minds of many filmmakers, either. Which is probably why there’s a relative dearth of non-Hollywood-produced SF films. When “sci-fi” means “big-budget,” as it usually does, that eliminates the small filmmaker from the equation. But that doesn’t have to … more…
doh! ‘Simpsons Movie’ won’t screen till mere hours before it opens
Word came down today from 20th Century Fox: press screenings of The Simpsons Movie will be on Thursday, July 26… the night before the film opens. And by “the night before,” I mean that the very multiplex in which I will see the film on Thursday evening will open the movie to public showings a … more…
