‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Rose”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
Month: April 2009
weekend open thread: 80 degrees in April edition
A few days ago it was in the 40s and raining, and now it’s glorious high summer. Who said global climate change wouldn’t be entertaining? Talk amongst yourselves while I work on some Doctor Who stuff for your imminent pleasure…
watch it: the 4/25/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Fiscal discipline, bitches! I like the bit about whatever loose change we can find in the couch, we get to keep!
Majel Barrett Roddenberry becomes an unperson…
Majel Barrett Roddenberry becomes an unperson, women are sexy like sportcars (unless they’re fat), and more. It’s my Week in Women column, up over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
opening in North America April 24: ‘The Soloist,’ ‘Fighting,’ ‘Obsessed,’ ‘Earth,’ more
opening wide The Soloist: It’s the feel-kinda-queasy-about-how-rotten-we-humans-are movie of the spring! But it’s also the feel-kinda-good-cuz-some-of-us-are-trying-fix-that-too movie of the season! Yea! Fighting: I mean this in all honesty, and not to be mean, but is there something wrong with Channing Tatum? Like, is he kinda, you know, slow? Or is there something wrong with audiences … more…
Obsessed (review)
I cannot tell you how ineptly hilarious this ‘thriller’ is, from its weirdly retro vibe — as if the feminism of the 1970s, 80s, 90s and 2000s had not come between manhunting women and the poor saps they prey on — to its outrageous telegraphing of its “big’ finale.
watch it: “Cat Annoys Sleeping Guy All Night”
It’s cat-video Friday! (via A Million Things That Bug Me, aka my semicousin Gail)
opening in the U.K. April 24: ‘Observe and Report,’ ‘The Uninvited,’ ‘State of Play,’ ‘Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel,’ more
Observe and Report, Uninvited, State of Play, Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel, Paul Blart Mall Cop, Outlander, Doctor Who, Shaun of the Dead, Encounters at the End of the World, Werner Herzog, Shifty, City Rats
screencap Friday: what the flick? #68
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.
geekgasm: Gillian Anderson on ‘Doctor Who’?
As Paul W. noted in comments and others have notified me by email, several sites are reporting that Agent Scully herself, Gillian Anderson, may appear in Matt Smith’s first season of Doctor Who in 2010 as the Rani, another rogue Time Lord who’s not as evil as the Master but a major bitch and pain … more…
