trailer break: ‘Unstoppable’
I can’t help it: I look at this trailer, and I think it’s gotta be a joke.
Month: October 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: fanzine ‘Panic Moon’
A month ago, I wrote wonderingly about how some fans seem to be going retro with fanzines printed on paper… just like in the 1980s! Apparently, the meme is spreading…
please vote for me in this British Airways small-business contest
I hope to win airfare to London and networking opportunities to help grow FlickFilosopher.com.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “Tomorrowland”
Ah, so now we get to wait and wonder how all the little houses of cards built up over this season — and starting to teeter in this last episode — will collapse next season.
quick list: five great football movies that aren’t really about football
I don’t get football. I have no desire to get it, and feel no great loss in my life because of this. But there are a few great football movies aren’t really about football, far less so than the many great baseball movies are actually about baseball. And so these are movies I can love.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor’s cameo in ‘Her Fearful Symmetry’
I assumed once I’d read Niffenegger’s first book, The Time Traveler’s Wife that she was a Doctor Who fan and that her novel was inspired by the show. But I think this cements it.
trailer break: ‘Saw 3D’
Is it really a selling point that the viewer gets to be in the middle of this movie… or at least feel like it, via the 3D? Does anyone actually really want to get in the middle of the action here?
question of the day: What are your favorite dying words in movies?
Today’s question comes from reader Todd, who writes that he is always moved by Roy Batty’s final words in Blade Runner: ‘All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.’
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Bikini Bloodbath Christmas’
Oh, the sweet, sweet sounds of the season: the splatter of blood, the ripping of bikinis, the bouncing of bosoms…
watch it: “Love as Tragedy: A Play in 3 Acts”
A music video by my friend, filmmaker David Speranza, for singer/songerwriter Alfa Garcia.
