oh my god won’t someone think of the children?!

WENN.com via the Internet Movie Database reports: Batman comic bosses are pulping tens of thousands of copies of the latest Dark Knight adventure because a printing error has left it filled with swear words. Profanities that were meant to be blacked out to spare the blushes of young readers were not printed dark enough – … more…

for fun: ‘Star Trek’ 20 Questions

Oh man, this is hilarious: Star Trek 20 Questions. You think of a thing, place, or sentient being from the Trek universe, and then the AI asks you questions in an attempt to guess what you’re thinking of. The AI learns from the players’ answers, which means I probably broke it, because even though I … more…

trailer break: ‘Appaloosa’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… It’s Unforgiven meets Shanghai Noon… without the laughs! This is the second movie from Ed Harris as a director (after 2000’s Pollack), and — kidding aside — it looks like my kind of movie, full of action and emotion and, well, Viggo Mortensen. I have to … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #36

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

one more reminder: Feedburner site feed is going away

Bumping this up as a reminder: I’ve been doing lots of behind-the-scenes tweaking since the redesign, one of which is very important to note if you follow site updates via an RSS feed. I will soon get rid of the Feedburner feed — that’s the one at this URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/flickfilosopher/Sfpt Please update your RSS reader … more…

David Tennant in ‘Hamlet’ in London

The Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet in which David Tennant is now starring in Stratford-upon-Avon will transfer to London for a run starting December 3, through January 10, 2009. Tickets go on sale at 10am London time tomorrow, Friday, September 12. Get ’em while you can.

dream cast: hypothetical live-action ‘ThunderCats’ movie

It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: ThunderCats, the Rankin/Bass animated series that debuted in 1985. There is a CGI-animated flick coming in 2010, but let’s think live-action update. That’s much more fun. (This one was suggested by reader Bill. If you … more…