watch it: “Star Wars / Macgyver opening”
Bonus points for the weird poignancy that comes from the fact that TV shows simply don’t have opening credits anymore… so the nostalgia works on multiple levels.
Month: October 2010
trailer break: ‘Jackass 3D’
Why? Why do we celebrate idiocy like this?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: shooting in the U.S. next month
We’ve been hearing rumors about Doctor Who shooting in America for more than two years, but now it’s official. Utah, ho!
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Big Tits Zombie’
Someone please shoot me now. Or else quickly produce Big Dick Zombies posthaste.
a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Unvanquished”
Has everyone gone totally round the bend? Joseph Adama has thrown himself in with the gangsters in full, it seems. Daniel Graystone is about to go to work for them. (Has he never seen whatever the Colonial version of GoodFellas is? ‘Every since I was a kid I wanted to be a Tauron gangster…’)
cinematic roots of: ‘Life as We Know It’
In Life as We Know It, Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel can’t stand each other, but agree to raise the orphaned child of their friends anyway, because an environment of seething resentment and hatred is hardly different from what other kids grow up in. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
cinematic roots of: ‘My Soul to Take’
In My Soul to Take, Wes Craven warms up some horror leftovers in a tale about a serial killer whose soul has (maybe) been reborn into the body of one of a gaggle of small-town teenagers. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
tres cool: Localville News journalism at its finest
‘Girl, 18, killed in relevant circumstances’…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Zack Smith’s sketchbook
At Zack Smith’s sketchbook The Universal Databank (on Facebook), ‘the best comic artists around draw their favorite characters from DOCTOR WHO — from the Doctor(s) to companions to the weirdest monsters!’…
watch it: “Werner Herzog Reads Madeline”
With Herzogian interpretation. And it’s not really Herzog anyway. But it is hilarious.
