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
Year: 2008
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:
trailer break: ‘Seven Pounds’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Huh. That was so not was I was expecting. Seven Pounds? I figured: gotta be a baby, right? Gonna be the feel-good romantic family bighearted flick of the holiday season! Forget all those Nazis and coldblooded vampires and steely secret agents and come cuddle a baby … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘The Gay Bed and Breakfast of Terror’
I think we must acknowledge that it is a strike for equality when a formerly — and often still — denigrated minority can take the terrible stereotypes that have been assigned to it… and deploy those stereotypes itself. I’m not sure why gays and lesbians would want to embrace a film that describes its own … more…
North American box office: ‘Quantum of Solace’ nothing to grieve over
James Bond is burning up the U.S./Canadian box office just like he has been all around the world. What a shock: 1. Quantum of Solace: $67.5 million (NEW) 2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: $35 million (2nd week; drops 45%) 3. Role Models: $11. million (2nd week; drops 42%) 4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: … more…
watch it: “Dalek Invaders 2008ad”
A family on holiday made a Doctor Who fan film. It’s adorable, actually, and full of love of the show and awareness of how goofy it can be. But it’s also got decent FX and a soundtrack and everything. Impressive stuff. (hat tip to Mark, my editor at Film.com)
