watch it: the 11/21/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
We’re emerging from the Great Recession? Who knew? Hoorah!
Month: November 2009
question of the weekend: What book are you reading right now, and what’s up next?
I’ve always got piles of books around me: books to read, books I’ve read and mean to write about at MaryAnnJohanson.com (and never seem to find the time to do so), books I feel like I should read but keep getting shifted to the bottom of the pile. I’ve also sometimes got more than one … more…
November 20: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but there’s all that sighing and sulking and brooding over your immortal undead lover to do, and that’s just exhausting. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you … more…
watch it: “Kitten Still Loves Puppy”
Dogs and cats living together — mass hysteria!
U.K. box office: ‘2012’ opens big
But Christmas Carol is the real winner: 1. 2012: £6.5 million (NEW) 2. A Christmas Carol: £2.5 million (2nd week; up 31%) 3. Harry Brown: £1.3 million (NEW) 4. Up: £.99 million 5. The Men Who Stare at Goats: £.8 million (2nd week; drops 34%) (actual numbers, not estimates) Just as in North America, 2012 … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #98
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: ‘Red Cliff’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Totally awesome. I so fell in love with Takeshi Kaneshiro in House of Flying Daggers, and he’s just as enticing here as a sort of Jedi warrior. Plus, there’s some cool battles and shit. Red Cliff opens in the U.S. today; it played in U.K. theaters this … more…
Planet 51 (review)
Much of what might have made it appealing to true devotees of science fiction and cinema, like how it’s a pastiche of 1950s B-movies, is lost when its parodying of the paranoia and xenophobia of those films is so relentlessly trite and obvious…
question of the day: Will you watch ‘Lost’ when it returns in February?
The beginning of the beginning of the end for Lost, um, began yesterday with the announcement of the debut date for the final season: February 2, 2010. As Michael Ausiello at EW’s The Ausiello Files notes, 02022010 does sound like another puzzle number the show’s gonna throw at us. He goes on to name those … more…
watch it: late 1950s/early 1960s Kool-Aid commercial
From the era when children were forced to sing for their sugary nonnutritive refreshing beverages:
