Month: March 2009

oh my god, do I hate CNN’s Rick Sanchez

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I confess that on days when I’m working at home, I sometimes keep CNN on in the background if there isn’t something compelling for the background on Sci Fi. (I have no idea WTF Charlie Jade is, and there’s no cute guys in it, so I’m on CNN this afternoon.) But dear Edward R. Murrow … more…

trailer break: ‘Tales of the Black Freighter’

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Take a break from work: watch a DVD trailer… I’ll be curious to see how this stands up on its own, as a separate story. Because it’s so integrated into the story of Watchmen, and its impact is so tied up with the contrast and parallel with the main story, that I suspect it will … more…

question of the day: Who should play Shakespeare?

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“Scholars studying the life and times of William Shakespeare unveiled a portrait Monday believed to be the only authentic image of the Bard painted during his lifetime.” Woo-hoo! Here’s a closeup of part of the painting: If it looks not unlike our idea of what William Shakespeare probably looked like, it’s because this painting was … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America,’ ‘Alien Trespass,’ ‘Miss March,’ ‘The Last House on the Left’ (and ‘Race to Witch Mountain’ too)

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While much of the rest of the NYC critical community will be attending a screening of Race to Witch Mountain tonight (here’s why I won’t), I’ll be seeing Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (opens in New York City on March 13; no U.K. release date has been announced), an ultralow-budget epic about two … more…

MaryAnn wearing a red nose at BAM

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I attended a performance of The Bridge Project’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Friday night. And here I am outside the BAM Harvey theater wearing my Red Nose Day red nose. I’m doing something funny for money all week as part of the U.K.’s Red Nose Day … more…