watch it: the 6/26/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
As always with Obama, he talks a good game. But I’ll hold off on cheering until he actually implements his promises. Because he doesn’t have a good track record on doing that so far.
Year: 2010
question of the weekend: Why hasn’t geek culture grown up?
It suddenly occurred to me when I was writing about the trailer for Never Let Me Go the other day that I was surprised that we don’t see more movies like that one these days. See, 25 years ago, when I was 15, if someone had told me, “By the time you’re 40, geeks will … more…
Friday night fortune cookie: Leonard Smalls says…
“You want to find an outlaw, hire an outlaw. You want to find a Dunkin’ Donuts, call a cop.”
watch it: “The World’s First Bionic Cat”
Oscar from Jersey lost his rear paws in a terrible accident, but he’s walking around again: And more video of Oscar: I love how the cat, in this second video, is all like, “What? I’m walkin’ here! Lemme alone!” (*sigh* He looks like my Andie, who died many years ago, and without bionic feet.) More … more…
wtf: I wasn’t looking for ‘Gandhi’ in ‘Twilight’ — were you?
Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg talks to The Wall Street Journal about all the mean meanies who make her feel bad because her scripts for Twilight movies — her work includes Twilight and New Moon as well as the upcoming Eclipse — kinda suck. And not in the cool vampire way. Waaah!: “It’s tough,” Ms. Rosenberg said … more…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Daleks”
Submitted by many readers. Thank you. You will be spared extermination. (If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
male gaze alert: ‘Toy Story 3’ short “Day and Night”
Anyone who’s seen Toy Story 3 knows that it opens — as Pixar films typically do — with a delightful animated short film. This one is called “Day and Night,” and it’s a personification of, unsurprisingly, “day” and “night” as vaguely human-shaped blobs moving about the natural world. Day, for instance, wakes up in the … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #129
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
omg: maybe Peter Jackson will direct ‘The Hobbit’ after all?
Mike Fleming at Deadline is reporting that maybe this geek-dream-come-true is so: EXCLUSIVE: In what amounts to a dream come true for fans of Middle Earth, Peter Jackson has decided to direct two installments of The Hobbit, trusted sources are telling me. His deal is being negotiated right now with Warner Bros , New Line … more…
trailer break: ‘The Kids Are All Right’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Great trailer, great cast, great film. Now, if only it had some Transformers or some toys in it, it could be a huge hit. The Kids Are All Right opens in limited release in the U.S. on July 9; no Canadian or U.K. release dates have been … more…
