question of the day: What’s your favorite Monty Python bit?

The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast 40 years ago this month — though the boys’ official site insists it’s the 400th anniversary. In honor of the occasion, the cable network IFC is this week airing a new six-part documentary, Monty Python: Almost the Truth: The Lawyer’s Cut. (I don’t get IFC … more…

watch it: “Plan 9 from Outer Space”

Yes, it’s the whole damn movie, which you might want to watch in advance of the non-cheesy remake, Plan 9… or just because it’s probably the most gloriously awful movie ever made. Plan 9 from Outer Space | Movies & TV | SPIKE.com

bias update: October 19

obsession: Doctor Who (I keep buying new DVDs of the old show; see more after the jump) boyfriend: Paul Gross in Eastwick (see more after the jump) psyched: The Men Who Stare at Goats (George Clooney as a psychic warrior, and Ewan McGregor as anything? I’m so there; also, see more after the jump) girl … more…

Paris (review)

Ah, Paris. Ah, Juliette Binoche. If you need a dash of the Continent — romantic, inscrutable, ardent — you probably cannot ever go wrong with a flick set in the City of Light and starring one of the most luminous actresses ever to grace the arthouse screen.

trailer break: ‘Plan 9’ teaser trailer

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Plan 9 Teaser Trailer from Darkstone Entertainment on Vimeo. So these guys from Darkstone Entertainment wanna remake the Ed Wood anti-classic Plan 9 from Outer Space, except as: a serious-minded retelling of the original story, paying homage to the spirit of Wood’s film without resorting to camp … more…

A Serious Man (review)

It’s hard to know sometimes whether the Coen Brothers are… well, not pulling our collective leg. Bbut are they actually *daring* us, with each new film, to keep coming along with them?

question of the day: Is there no length to which ‘news’ networks will not go for a ‘story,’ to which audiences will not go for a ‘thrill,’ and to which parents will not go for public attention?

Surprise, surprise: the “balloon-boy” saga of late last week was all a stunt, a hoax, a publicity grab by the parents of the supposedly missing kid. Says the Los Angeles Times: The strange case of Falcon Heene took another twist Sunday when a Colorado sheriff said the boy’s parents had staged the runaway balloon saga … more…