Month: May 2008

because I can: David Tennant as Hamlet

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It’s my site and I can post what I like: For those not in the know: the Doctor Who star will be playing the mad Dane in a Royal Shakespeare Company production in Stratford-on-Avon starting in July (and will also appear in Love’s Labour’s Lost at the same time; the two shows will be in … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Mongol,’ ‘Constantine’s Sword,’ ‘The Fall,’ ‘A Previous Engagement,’ ‘The Babysitters,’ ‘Noise,’ ‘Quid Pro Quo,’ ‘The Wackness’

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My screening schedule is getting back to normal, meaning four, five, six, or more movies per week. And I still have so much writing to do about Comic Con and Tribeca… But that won’t stop me from trying to cram in as many screenings as I can. Like these: So there’s this movie from Kazakhstan … more…

watch it: “The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”

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It’s not fancy or snazzy, just a great example of straight-up info that Web video makes wonderfully accessible: Harvard Law scholar Elizabeth Warren strips the bullshit away from the truth around the financial pressures on ordinary Americans in the early 21st century, and how much they’ve changed in only a generation. It’s long but worth … more…

daily list: 13 things as bona fide as ‘TMZ’

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Good news, everyone! No need to feel like a guilty filthy dirty gossip slut anymore when you watch that hideous parade of celebrity meltdowns, lawsuits, mugshots, and shameless publicity whoring known as TMZ! For the FCC — that bastion of wisdom and, um, other wiseness — has ruled that TMZ is a “bona fide news … more…