screencap Friday: what the flick? #67

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: ‘The Soloist’

Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Yeah, not November, like it says at the end of this trailer. This was supposed to be released last fall, and there’s a lot of wondering about why it wasn’t. And lemme tell ya, I saw the film last night, and… wow. The year-end awards stuff for … more…

American Violet (review)

Lest we forget, the slide into a fascism in America didn’t begin with George W. Bush: it was well underway in the 1990s, when our police went paramilitary in the “war on drugs” and new federal incentives for local communities to get drug convictions — however they could — led to a huge increase in … more…

watch it: “tweenbots”

No, it’s not about cybernetic Hannah Montana fans: It’s part of a project by Kacie Kinzer about social interaction and cooperation and helpfulness and what altruism we upright simians might extend to tiny adorable slightly anthropomorphic cardboard robots. I damn near cried reading about the project at Tweenbots. (Thanks to my semicousin Gail for pointing … more…

DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings

President Obama may have us all feeling more confident that the collapse of civilization because of credit swap defaults — instead of the way-cooler zombie apocalypse or ape uprising The Movies had promised us — has been headed off for the moment, but that don’t mean a penny saved ain’t still a penny saved. And … more…