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The new film Four Lions opened in the U.K. last weekend, to great box office: £609,000 from just 115 screens, for a per screen average of £5,292, “the highest of all the new releases, and double most of them,” notes Charles Gant at the Guardian’s Film blog. (Its average was second for the weekend only … more…
By popular demand, I’m no longer writing about Lost. So instead, enjoy this potpourri of possible endings (click through the related videos for those beyond the first): LOST: The Cast Says Goodnight Atom.com: Funny Videos | Spoofs | Funny Animations
Should we call Canadian passive-aggression passive-agreeableness?
David Cameron is Harold Saxon…
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Hey, it’s David Hewlett from Stargate Atlantis. I bet, alas, that he doesn’t get much to do and ends up eaten by the creature, or comes to some other horrible end. (I miss Rodney…) “Human cloning is illegal. This won’t be human.” Right there is where you … more…
Totally not a Harry Potter ripoff: Billy Owens is back for another enchanting adventure! Along with his three fellow friends in magic, they come together to help their teacher, Thurgood, when his soul becomes trapped in an ancient amulet. Legend says that inserting the empowered amulet into a cursed scepter will unlock vast powers and … more…
So it’s $128 million for Iron Man 2 over its first weekend in North America: that’s down more than $5 million from the Sunday estimates, but it’s still good enough to trump Iron Man’s $98 million opening two years ago. (IM2 dropped 52 percent in the U.K. over its second weekend there, but still easily … more…
(It will look here like I’m trying to condense a lot of stuff — my “week at the movies” posts, my “DVD alts” posts — into one package, and that isn’t quite the case. Or maybe it is. Bear with me as I try to figure out what the hell I’m doing and what the … more…
I took a tiny break from writing more of my ongoing Doctor Who fan story, “Tristan’s Father” (though the next installment is coming very soon, I promise), to write a very short story — 2,500 words — for Big Finish, the British company that does audio dramas and other cool stuff in connection with a … more…
Crazy MPAA ratings are so much fun! Have you seen the warnings regarding Babies? It’s rated PG for cultural and maternal nudity throughout Trying to parse this is a blast. I suppose it means that all the naked boobs are not meant to titillate but merely to provide nourishment to all the babies, but that … more…
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