watch it: “Miller Lite, 1970’s Classic commercial”
Hey, there’s 12 days of Christmas, and we’re not done yet.
Year: 2009
the Dirty District 9, the Explosive Bloody Mary…
If you’re looking for some movie-themed drinks for tonight’s partying, check out the specialty vodka drinks the Alliance of Women Film Journalists invented. We served these at our awards celebration a few weeks ago. My favorite: the Dirty District 9: THE DIRTY DISTRICT NINE, honoring District Nine, the 2009 EDA Award winner for Cultural Crossover: … more…
Online Film Critics Society 2009 awards nominees
Now posted over the OFCS news blog. Fun! A taste: BEST PICTURE The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds A Serious Man Up Up in the Air BEST DIRECTOR Kathryn Bigelow (-) The Hurt Locker Neill Blomkamp (-) District 9 James Cameron (-) Avatar Joel & Ethan Coen (-) A Serious Man Quentin Tarantino (-) Inglourious Basterds … more…
because silence = death
A homeopathic product for the relief of tinnitus — or ringing in the ears — is called Quietus… just like the legal suicide drug in Children of Men that despairing folk in a dying world take to gently off themselves from the horrors and hopelessness of everyday life. Or the name of the product could … more…
Twitter giveaways are done
Thanks to everyone who entered the various Twitter giveaways this week. All the goodies have now been accounted for — congrats to all the winners. Everything will go in the mail between Saturday and Monday. This was fun. Next time my pile of cool stuff gets too high, we’ll do it again.
trailer break: ‘The Wolfman’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I’d been hearing about Benicio Del Toro in a Wolfman reboot for a while, but it never occurred to me that it wouldn’t be set in the present day. I’m not sure why, I just assumed it would be modern. I guess they’re adhering more closely to … more…
Canadian readers having problems with the site?
Could be a coincidence, but I’ve heard from two readers in Canada this week about site-loading issues. One is about a particular ad for Telus breaking the site formatting (though I cannot find a Telus ad in the ad rotation; I’d turn it off it I could). The other appears to be a matter of … more…
David Tennant’s 75 curtain calls
I swear to God I am gonna get to blogging about “The End of Time: Part One” today, but in the meantime, enjoy this graphic from the Daily Mail detailing how tough it has been for David Tennant to say good-bye to Doctor Who: (h/t reader Ian via Twitter)
no British box office numbers this week
Looks like the folks at the UK Film Council are getting a nice long holiday: no new box office numbers were released this week. They’re usually out by late Wednesday, but if they’re not available by now, it doesn’t look like we’re gonna get them at all. It’s well past the point, U.K. time, at … more…
question of the day: What’s your most anticipated comic book movie of 2010?
Recently, the members of the Online Film Critics Society voted on which comic book movie slated for release in 2010 we’re most looking forward to. We chose from this list, which includes, as far as I can determine, all the comic book movies currently on the schedule: Dead of Night The Green Hornet Iron Man … more…
