funky site behavior

If you’re coming across a situation like this: when trying to read the site, just hit refresh and the page should reload properly. (You may need to refresh more than once.) It seems to be a problem with some of the skyscraper ads in the lefthand column. I’m working on it with the ad service, … more…

Jamie Bamber in ‘The Last Detective’

All through my viewing of The Last Detective, familiar faces kept popping up. One episode features, in a small role, Peter Davison’s own daughter, Georgia Moffat (not playing a relation to his character, though) — she, of course, played the Doctor’s cloned offspring in “The Doctor’s Daughter.” That same episode of Last Detective also featured … more…

trailer break: ‘Friday the 13th’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… So Marcus Nispel, the guy who made the pointless 2003 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is at it again, eh? Except don’t call it a remake: it’s a reboot, if you please. Do we really need a reboot of Jason, though? Is he a character … more…

the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Krav Maga Personal Protection: The Israeli Method of Close-Quarters Fighting Combat 6 DVD Set’

Great, just what the world needs: a bunch of weekend warriors who think they’re Israeli commandos loose on the streets of our fair cities. Krav Maga Personal Protection is a fantastic six DVD set that spans six belt levels (from yellow to black), covering punches, strikes, kicks from the guards, 360-degree defense tactics, gun defenses, … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Push,’ and that’s it

It looks like I picked precisely the right week-to-ten-days to escape to London: I’ve got exactly one movie on my screening schedule for this week, and that’s not because I’m flying out of here early Wednesday morning. Mere hours before I hop on a plane to Heathrow — weather permitting on both sides of the … more…