is Kathryn Bigelow female enough?…
…how to have a nonsexist awards season; Spike TV targets horny dudes; and more. Yup, it’s The Week in Women, my regular column over at the Alliance of Women Film Journalists. Enjoy.
Month: January 2010
it ain’t easy being Clooney, racist KFC ad, more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
retro trailer: ‘Clash of the Titans’ 1981
Take a look back at an old trailer… Oh, man, did I love this movie as a teenager. My brothers and I must have borrowed the VHS from the library dozens of times — we never tired of watching it. I wonder if it’s really as goofy as this trailer makes it seem. (Please o … more…
apology to Edmund Druilhet, filmmaker
In response to a Web Video of the Day I posted back in April, I just received this email from the maker of that video, who also appears in it: Subject: MarryAnn URGENT, Criminal,Unlawful Slander of me take it off now!!!!!!!! Edmund Druilhet MaryAnn Johanson, I am Edmund Druilhet, Producer Madoff, Made off with America … more…
watch it: the 1/9/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
Mr. President, with all due respect, fuck you very much. In February 2008, the Obama campaign ran this ad against Hillary Clinton (via Dead Horse): If Obama recognized in early 2008 that individual mandates are bad — and they are, unless the insurance corporations are stringently regulated, as they are in other countries that require … more…
question of the weekend: What are some really fun Wii games?
I just bought a Nintendo Wii game console [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon U.K.] — my first game console ever, in fact. (Well, we had the first Nintendo console when I was a teenager, but that was eons ago.) I couldn’t resist, because after my first opportunities to play with a Wii over the holidays, I was … more…
January 8: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re way too scared to actually ask out the girl you like. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Youth … more…
watch it: “Cat Shower 2 (Woody Style, very funny and cute)”
Kitteh fails to appreciate where on your head the water goes in: (via Cute Overload)
Daybreakers (review)
It’s the perfect, ultimate, brilliant extrapolation of the vampire conceit: What happens once almost everyone’s a vampire, unturned humans are nearly extinct, and the tastiest, most satisfying blood — the human kind — is running out?
screencap Friday: what the flick? #105
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
