watch it: “The Black Hole”
Ah, it’s one of those cautionary tales about magic and quantum physics and such: (hat tip to reader and friend Lowell, for pointing this one out to me)
Month: November 2008
U.K. box office: Bond keeps slaying the competition
They love 007 on his home turf: 1. Quantum of Solace: £5.2 million (3rd week; drops 44%) 2. Max Payne: £1 million (NEW) 3. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: £.98 million (4th week; drops 36%) 4. Zack and Miri Make a Porno: £.8 million (NEW) 5. Ghost Town: £.6 million (4th week; drops 17%) … more…
trailer break: ‘Dostana’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Oh my god. It’s a Hindi Bosom Buddies-meets-Three’s Company. (The two guys are pretending to be gay for reasons of real estate: they found a great apartment right on the beach in Miami, but it’s chicks-only. Apparently the landlady feels two gay guys are not a … more…
Max Payne (review)
I think I’m entirely justified in saying, ‘Hey, wait a minute…!’
watch it: “In The Know: Should The Government Stop Dumping Money Into A Giant Hole?”
Keeping the Satire Deathwatch — it’s still a ways off, it seems: God bless The Onion. via Calculated Risk
trailer break: ‘Star Trek’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… (Or, the Star Trek trailer at Apple Trailers: bigger, crisper, clearer.) The wait is not over! In a parallel universe where Paramount didn’t move the release date from now to next bloody summer, the wait is over. But not here. Not in this universe. In what … more…
Bolt (review)
I figured I was probably overthinking this, and should trust that it would all make sense, but I couldn’t help it. I knew that Bolt was about a dog who believes he has superpowers and actually fights crime alongside his beloved person, but he’s wrong because he’s just the canine star of a hit TV action show. I thought, How can a dog look at a green screen and see something that’s not there?
Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series (review)
I spent hours this afternoon going through the new *Doctor Who Series 4* DVD set, and I barely even scratched the surface. And still: I think I might have to go lie down for a while. I’ve gotten a bit overexcited, a bit overwhelmed. There’s so much stuff in it, so much beyond just the episodes, that my fangirl gland is overheating.
my week at the movies: ‘Twilight,’ ‘Good,’ ‘Bolt,’ ‘Australia,’ ‘Four Christmases,’ ‘Transporter 3’
I’m sort of dreading my screening of Twilight (opens in the U.S. on November 21, and in the U.K. on December 19) tonight. I don’t mean the film itself — though that’s an issue too — but the scene. It’s going to be a madhouse. I’ve never seen this before, in almost ten years of … more…
watch it: “Animated Aurora Borealis, from Orbit”
Animation created in space. So cool, and so beautiful:
