‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Dalek”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
Month: May 2009
‘Doctor Who’ news roundup
My regular weekend Doctor Who blogging is coming late tonight or tomorrow, but in the meantime, there’s lots of news about the show to share. (Thanks to all the many readers who have emailed me links, including: John, Martha, Alison, Gail, Steve, Matthew, and Jeff.) • David Tennant’s Hamlet (which I reviewed here) will definitely … more…
watch it: the 5/30/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
But… but… but… Judge Sotomayor is ethnic! And a woman! She might not be properly deferential to the needs of white men in the same way that white men have always been properly deferential to the needs of everyone else for the last thousand years!
‘Pushing Daisies’ returns from the dead, briefly, tomorrow night
If you can’t wait for the July Region 1 DVD (and aren’t able to watch the Region 2 DVD just released this week), then tune into ABC tomorrow night at 10pm Eastern for the first of the final three episodes of Pushing Daisies (see ABC’s official site for the show for what few details beyond … more…
opening in the U.S. and Canada May 29: ‘Up,’ ‘Drag Me to Hell,’ ‘What Goes Up,’ more
opening wide Up: It is balloons! (You probably don’t get that reference unless you were a kid in the 1970s in the New York metropolitan area and watched WPIX and saw its promos for F-Troop reruns. Sorry.) Drag Me to Hell: Sam Raimi tortures poor Alison Lohman. But might she maybe kinda sorta deserve it? … more…
put a woman in charge of film school…
…but make sure the females are degraded on film. It’s all about balance, you see… Yes, it’s the latest installment of “The Week in Women,” over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists.
opening in the U.K. May 29: ‘Drag Me to Hell,’ ‘Obsessed,’ ‘12 Rounds,’ ‘Jonas Brothers,’ more
Drag Me to Hell: “I welcome the dead into my soul.” Go on, say it — it’s easy! Obsessed: Bitches be crazy. It’s all you need to know. 12 Rounds: John Cena thinks he’s Bruce Willis in Die Hard. It’s so cute, really. Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience: “And three brothers shall walk among … more…
watch it: “Cute baby tiger”
It’s cat-video Friday! Big cats are people too:
Up (review)
How did the Pixar folks time it just right to get this cheerful and fantastical yet never unrealistically optimistic movie before our eyes just as we are getting desperate for a movie to hug us reassuringly?
screencap Friday: what the flick? #73
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.
