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We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re worried that you won’t be able to find a humans-only multiplex now that the aliens have arrived and are swarming all over like they own the place. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection … more…
Jon Stewart showed part of this video this week on The Daily Show. As he indicated, it is almost overwhelming in its cuteness:
I feel more and more like Lily Tomlin every day: No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up. Just like week I invented an imaginary supervillain for whom Play-Doh: The Motion Picture, Boggle: The Movie, and Trivial Pursuit: The Next Generation seemed beyond the pale, something only the depths of his depravity could … more…
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.
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… See, this is what constitutes a “bad boy” these day: he smokes and doesn’t give a shit if the people around him would prefer to avoid lung cancer — which they won’t, because everyone is tired of The Man telling everyone which corporations can’t exploit them anymore! … more…
A recent story on AlterNet by Alan Farago suggests that the only place where we’re seeing an accurate reflection of the zeitgeist at the moment is on cable TV: not the news channels, but on networks like HBO, TNT, and AMC. And certainly not on the broadcast networks: The zeitgeist of the new television connects … more…
They didn’t ruin the movie, I promise. But some will disagree with me.
It’s official: rock ’n’ roll has been tamed.
obsession: Torchwood: Children of Earth (yes, my episode-by-episode is on its way, I hope next week) boyfriend: Sharlto Copley in District 9 (not his character, Wikus Van De Merwe, who’s completely dorky, but the actor, who’s smart and funny and adorably sort of David Tennant-y as himself) psyched: absolutely nothing (it’s August) girl crush: Meryl … more…
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 book, perferrably something with Xer appeal that we can either trash or have fun with, and cast a production or recast a hypothetical remake with actors working today. This week: a hypothetical … more…
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