I hope this means Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright are planning a unkillable-rat comic horror movie…

Cuz look what they’re reading in their newspapers these days: Scientists warn of new ‘super rats’ Genetic mutations are resulting in resistance to poisons and rising city infestations A new type of “super rat” with genetic mutations that apparently makes it resistant to commonly used poisons is infesting towns and cities across Britain, a scientist … more…

question of the day: What’s the most dramatic thing broadcast TV networks could do to shake things up?

The New York Times this morning is running an article about how terrified everyone is about the poor prospects of the upcoming broadcast television season, which doesn’t begin till September but planning for which is all but done now: Each May, the big broadcast television networks invite advertisers, agency executives and affiliates to peek at … more…

Jane Campion is back…

…but so are male-dominated summer blockbusters and limited male perceptions of female sexuality. Yes, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. It’s fun!

screencap Friday: what the flick? #71

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.

trailer break: ‘Cheri’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Hooray! It’s an older woman-younger man romance. Or sex romp, at least. It’s based on the naughty novels by turn-of-the-20th-century French author Colette, so perhaps it will be free of the bizarre hangups we seem to have developed about sex in our pop culture in the last … more…

Management (review)

There’s nothing wrong with fantasy. Movies are fantasies. But I’m so tired of male fantasies constantly being catered to while female fantasies are all but ignored.