the world is saved! no, it’s not!

It’s one of those moments where you’re having a heart attack and getting the cure in the same moment. I would have keeled over to learn that Hollywood was contemplating a remake of the hideous sitcom Full House, which has been banned in 84 countries as a violation of human rights, except that this is … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #49

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.

watch it: “The Three Sheep”

Weird, and a little disturbing: Watch more cool animation and creative cartoons at aniBoom This is the film ranked 146 in the aniBoom Awards 2008. I’ll be featuring some more of these between now and the end of the year.

what’s gonna happen on ‘Battlestar Galactica’?

(I’ll be getting to work on the remaining three preview articles mentioned here this weekend, so I’m bumping this up, looking for more comments and ideas.) It begins Friday, January 16, 10pm Eastern, Sci Fi Channel, Planet Earth. The last ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica. Over the last four years, we’ve been suckered in and … more…

the show goes on without Tennant

As reader BillM (and others) noted in comments, David Tennant has had to drop out of West End performances of Hamlet through at least Christmas. At first it was just a nonspecified “back injury” that forced him to miss one performance, then a second, then it was “out for weeks to recover from surgery for … more…

trailer break: ‘Inkheart’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Yeah, it does bear a certain resemblance to Bedtime Stories, the Adam Sandler comedy opening in the U.S. on Christmas Day, what with stories coming alive when read, and I’d suspect that’s why this film isn’t opening in the U.S. today, as it is in the … more…

Delgo (review)

It’s a good thing I just bought the *Wall-E* DVD, because I’m gonna need to watch it at least a dozen times to scrub the horrors of *Delgo* out of my brain.