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Month: October 2010
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Genesis of the Daleks”
It’s weird to look back at ‘Genesis of Daleks’ now and know that the first time I saw this — it would have been back in the early 1980s — I had no idea what the hell a Dalek was.
Fox doesn’t understand the Internet, or its audience, or the state of TV today
Back in March, I bitched about how ABC had pulled its broadcast feeds from Cablevision, my cable provider, over fee disputes. And now the same thing is happening again, with Fox…
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (review)
There’s a sneaky cheekiness to You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger that is inherent in the slyness of the title, which wraps up in one neat little package ideas about romantic fate, our yearning for something better than the pretty good thing we might already have, and an up-to-the-minute restlessness about our lives that hounds even the most comfortable of us.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: IDW comic returns in 2011 with Matt Smith’s Doctor
Comics publisher IDW turns its Doctor Who book over to the Matt Smith Doctor — as well as Amy Pond and Rory Williams — with a new series commencing in January 2011…
trailer break: ‘Paranormal Activity 2’
I didn’t find the first film all that terrifying, only momentarily cheaply distracting, and I can’t see how this won’t be more of the same.
tres cool: “Glenn Beck hates America”…
…according to this lone protester I spotted outside the headquarters of Fox News in Manhattan the other day…
question of the day: Why did ‘Jackass 3D’ make $50 million this past weekend?
What on Earth is the appeal of the Jackass franchise? Why would a movie with no special FX, no characters to speak of, no story, no nothing except overgrown idiocy speak to so many people?
watch it: “The Queen, My Lord, Is Much, Much Better!”
Sample voiceover work by my friend Bob Kuhn… which also happens to be a snidely entertaining piece of nonsense in its own right.
the MPAA and male nudity; more battles between TV networks and cable providers; the Oscars race is on; more: leftover links
Plus: Javier Bardem to star in Chilean mine movie; Matt Damon not to star in the next Bourne movie; Napoleon Dynamite and How to Train Your Dragon going to TV; lots more…
