watch it: “Simon’s Cat ‘Fly Guy’”
Cats don’t mean to be destructive or disgusting — it just sort of happens:
Month: July 2009
screencap Friday: what the flick? #82
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: ‘Taking Woodstock’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Peace, love, and rock ’n’ roll? Heh. Even Woodstock was all about the money. Has Ang Lee found his new Tobey Maguire in Demetri Martin? I thought he was just that kid who was on The Daily Show a couple times, and now he’s in an Ang … more…
The Cove (review)
Think ‘guerrilla journalism.’
question of the day: Does ‘Harry Potter’ misrepresent journalism and newspapers?
A new study in the American Communication Journal frets that children are getting the wrong ideas about journalism and newspapers from Harry Potter. (The study looks at the books, but it applies to the movies as well.) The abstract: This framing study examines how author J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series of children’s books treats the … more…
site issues
Yes, the site was down again for at least a few hours this morning. Obviously, it’s fixed now. It had to do with my htaccess file getting corrupted through methods that remain mysterious. I’m at this horrible place at the moment, which should make me happy, but it only makes me miserable. The site is … more…
dream cast: Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit’ (to give him a boot in the ass)
It’s Thursday, so it’s time for another installment in the semiregular Dream Cast, in which we take a classic movie, TV show, or — NEW! — book, perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with, and cast a production or recast a hypothetical (or sometimes not so hypothetical) remake … more…
watch it: retro 1970s Coca-Cola ad
Remember when Coke taught the world to sing? That was awesome:
July 31: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Adam Sandler dying of some awful disease isn’t your idea of a good time. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you … more…
trailer break: ‘The Cove’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s the nature documentary/science journalism as suspense/action movie. And it works — it really does. You’ll never want to go to Sea World again, that’s for sure. The Cove opens in the U.S. on July 31, and in the U.K. on October 23.
