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This is a new thing I’ll be doing over at Film.com: offering a snarky rundown of the highlights of every episode of Heroes. This week’s is here. Commenting at Film.com is now open, but you can only post one comment per thread. So if you really wanna discuss this episode, feel free to do so … more…
See it: • 28 Weeks Later [buy it]. From my review: Call it 28 Weeks Later, but it’s the five years on from the horrifying 28 Days Later that have made all the difference: we are all immeasurably more anxious and on edge post-Katrina, mired in Iraq, nervous about tainted spinach and poisoned pet food … more…
Tuesday: the brand new DVDs arrive, and so The Unwatched pile grows
And since you didn’t get a haiku yesterday, here’s another today: A Western bar brawl Fists fly. Whiskey bottles smash Saloon panes tremble
Oh, hey, speaking of being unwilling to give up Doctor Who, starting this Friday, to make up for the lack of new episodes, I’ll go back and start blogging about the second season, David Tennant’s first. If you haven’t seen it yet, buy a copy now and start watching, and we’ll talk about an episode … more…
Also, Ben Stiller’s obnoxious Heartbreak Kid…
In honor of the crash-and-burn of The Heartbreak Kid at the box office this weekend: End of the grossout? Could it be the finish of Farting as foreplay?
It’s funny, but as much as I really like ‘Torchwood,’ rewatching it is not quite as much fun as rewatching ‘Doctor Who.’ I never get tired of ‘Doctor Who,’ and I constantly find new stuff to hash over in those episodes — these, not so much. They’re fun, and I’m certainly not saying that I dislike the show, but it’s not as rich in material as ‘Who’ is.
Nikki Finke posted this atrocious news at her Deadline Hollywood Daily on Friday: This comes to me from three different producers, so I know it’s real: Warner Bros president of production Jeff Robinov has made a new decree that “We are no longer doing movies with women in the lead”. This Neanderthal thinking comes after … more…
The horrendous way that the season finale of Doctor Who was chopped up by the Sci Fi Channel for American broadcast has me thinking about the craft of editing — and its power: One quick cut, and the Demented become sane, and The sane prosaic
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