watch it: 1970s Ginsu knife ad
One of the great mysteries of life remains: Who needs to cut a tin can with a knife?
Month: September 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Doctor’s Boys Wallpaper
Yesterday we looked at mimi-na’s Doctor’s Girls Wallpaper. So here’s a taste of the artist’s Doctor’s Boys…
you’re not helping: screenwriters shouldn’t be resigned to their scripts being mangled by Hollywood
William C. Martell at Script Secrets thinks he’s being wise and helpful with explanation of the abuse screenwriters with Hollywood aspirations should expect… and that’s abuse that comes if you’re ‘successful’!
would the William Hughes who subscribed yesterday…
…please email me at thechick@flickfilosopher.com? The .edu address connected to your Amazon account is bouncing back as undeliverable.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (review)
I come to you with all honest sincerity and humility to say that I cannot, for the life of me, tell you what the hell this damn movie is about.
trailer break: ‘Barry Munday’
Oh, dear. It’s an indie Knocked Up…
question of the day: Why do we continue to be George Lucas’s bitch?
Just try to ignore the pull of Star Wars 3D. How do we escape George Lucas’s Svengali-like domination?
cinematic roots of: ‘The Night Chronicles: Devil’
In The Night Chronicles: Devil, a group of hapless folks are trapped in an elevator with Satan. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Easy A’
In Easy A, Emma Stone — in a story based on the classic novel The Scarlet Letter — learns how cruel teenagers can be when she pretends to be the sluttiest slut their high school has ever known. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘Alpha and Omega’
In Alpha and Omega, two animated wolves — a lowly cur (the voice of Justin Long) and a pack leader (the voice of Hayden Panettiere) — are relocated by humans to another park and fall in love on the road trip home. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
