me on last night’s episode of ‘Lost’

Over at Film.com. Film.com has upgraded its commenting system so that you can actually have a conversation, so if you want to talk about the episode, please do so there.

I are edjumacational

I’m tickled to announce that my essay on how the movie 300 broke new ground with what CGI can do has been reprinted in a university textbook, Text Messaging: Reading and Writing About Popular Culture, by John Alberti. More than one angry commenter at this site has suggested that I don’t know my ass from … more…

watch it: “Green Porno: Earthworm”

Isabella Rosellini is demented in the most delightful way. She’s making porno about insects… and she’s starring in it: Green Porno: Earthworm on FunnyOrDie.com (Technorati tags: Green Porno, Isabella Rosellini)

women are not a ‘niche audience’

Unbelievable. IMDB’s Studio Briefing splashes this headline today: “Can Niche Audience Make ‘Sex And The City’ A Hit?” Niche audience. Women are a “niche audience.” More than half the population: “niche.” Excuse me for not sounding very ladylike, but What. The. Fuck. Studio Briefing quotes, with a sort of smug nod of approval, the Los … more…

I hate the Sci Fi Channel’s ‘Doctor Who’ promos

They’re terrible. Ditto the coming attractions at the end of each episode. They don’t capture a real sense of the story — especially when compared to the British previews on the end of each episode, which are pretty much uniformly brilliant. And Sci Fi promos are often misleading. Or simply flat-out wrong, like the one … more…