Month: October 2008

I *am* a rocknrolla

3 comments

I haven’t really been inspired, anywhere I’ve been in England or Wales, to crush any heads, but I did find this big pile of rocks that seemed to demand rearranging…

I found the entrance to the dwarven halls!

2 comments

Another pic from my journeys through England: Khazad-dûm! This is a door of a church in the Cotswolds village of Stow-on-the-Wold, which some folks think may have inspired Tolkien — who was based in nearby Oxford — when he was writing The Lord of the Rings.

5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘RocknRolla’

19 comments

All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in October, and 5 reasons why. No. 4: RocknRolla [opens limited October 8, wide October 31]. 1. Cute guys with British accents. 2. It’s about con artists, who are always entertaining. In the movies, at least. 3. Guy Ritchie. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch … more…

dream cast: cast your own Hamlet

1 comment

I’m getting ready to head off to see David Tennant in Love’s Labour’s Lost. While I’m doing that, why not cast your own Hamlet? Jude Law’s going to take on the Danish Prince next year in the West End. Who else could offer an interesting spin on the role, either on stage or in film?

watch it: “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran”

1 comment

I’m in England at the moment, where I’m getting an, um, interesting perspective on the American presidential campaigning. So just to be perverse, all this week I’m highlighting YouTube video of Republican candidate John McCain, for two reasons. 1) He’s a nut, and as many people as possible need to know that before they go … more…