watch it: “LOST Season 6 Promos – Comic Con 2009”
Fake ads for Hurley’s new business venture, and Oceanic Airways. Fun!
Year: 2009
caption this! image from ‘Serious Moonlight’
New fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. Serious Moonlight is the directorial debut of actress Cheryl Hines, and it was written by Adrienne Shelly, who was murdered in 2006 just as her film … more…
trailer break: ‘Broke: The New American Dream’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Investment issues are to me the way science fiction is to some people: alien concepts spoken of in an alien language concerning things that I will never, ever have any stake in. Obviously the crashing economy affects me, too, but I don’t understand why things should be … more…
question of the day: What burning questions do you hope ‘Lost’ answers in its final season?
Lost won’t return to our TVs till sometime in early 2010, but series creators Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof sparked off fan excitement at San Diego Comic Con: during their Lost panel, they offered some clues — maybe, if we can trust them — about where the show will go in its final season. Reports … more…
watch it: “Don’t Copy That 2 – COMING SOON!”
If you remember floppies, then you probably remember “Don’t Copy That Floppy” and “anti-piracy hero MC Double Def DP.” Yes, kiddies, that was the kind of condescension your elders had to put up with in the wild pioneer days of the digital age, back in the early 90s. But you’re in for a new taste … more…
trailer break: ‘Doctor Who’: “The Waters of Mars”
Take a break from work: watch a TV trailer… If this is a “certain moment” that “has to stand,” does the Doctor mean that he cannot change or even try to change whatever bad thing is happening on Mars? Cuz that would be kinda cool, in a dramatic sense, for the Doctor to have to … more…
North American box office: ‘G-Force’? Really?
Armed guinea pigs beat Harry Potter? 1. G-Force: $31.7 million (NEW) 2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: $29.5 million (2nd week; drops 62%) 3. The Ugly Truth: $27.6 million (NEW) 4. Orphan: $12.9 million (NEW) 5. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs: $8.4 million (4th week; drops 52%) actual numbers, not estimates Oh, god, … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Shark Attack Lunch Box’
Huh. And here I thought there was an official unofficial moratorium are packing nonlunch things in pseudo retro lunch boxes if they didn’t actually have some sort of nostalgic value for the cohort of today’s consumers who once carried their bologna sandwiches to school in the 1960s and 70s in tin containers emblazoned with cartoon … more…
question of the day: Should Jon Stewart change his name back to Jon Leibowitz?
Ron Rosenbaum in Slate suggests, in an open letter to the Daily Show host, that Jon Stewart revert back to using his real name, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz: So please know I’m writing as an admirer, someone who thinks you have the courage as well as comedic smarts to take the simple but radical step I’m … more…
watch it: “David Tennant & John Barrowman Kiss – SD Comic Con ’09”
Yup, they really do: Oh my god, the screams. David Tennant must have gone deaf. I think it’s totally adorable that John Barrowman appears to be as bowled over by a kiss from David Tennant as any of us would be… (Oh, and I love the guy in the crowd who shouts, “I love you, … more…
