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Despicable Me seems to have captured the public imagination at the moment, opening to an astonishing $60 million-plus this weekend, far beyond the most generous predictions on Friday. It seems, perhaps, that audiences were indeed hungry for something fresh and original. With supervillainy on my mind, then, this morning, here’s a question for you: If … more…
People who upload material to YouTube that doesn’t belong to them — such as old movie trailers — and disable embedding. It’s not yours to hoard, dude. I appreciate that it takes time to rip material from DVDs, but still: uncool.
Take a look back at an old trailer… There’s a new blu-ray edition of this just out in Region 1 [Amazon U.S.] [Amazon Canada]. Not that I have a blu-ray player, but seeing it in the new-release listings made remember this movie fondly. I haven’t seen it since I was a kid, when I would … more…
None of Gru’s Minions are female because Gru’s archenemy Gargamel hasn’t yet gotten around to creating a Minionette to sow discontent in the land of Gru…
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post. And inevitably, I end the week with most of that material unused. But … more…
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode unless you don’t care to have it spoiled for you.
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BUMPED UP: Will BBC America finally air “The Lodger” tonight? The suspense is killing me! Stupid BBC America: Now the BBC America site says that ”The Lodger” will air next Saturday, July 10. I did think it was odd that they’d have a new episode over a holiday weekend, which is why I checked the … more…
More help for vets can only be a good thing. Here’s hoping it actually comes to pass.
As a followup to last weekend’s Question of the Weekend about sleep: I remember my dreams frequently, and often no matter how weird they are, they usually do make some sort of sense in light of what’s going on in my life. I still vividly remember years later that just as I was about to … more…
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