watch it: “Bicycle Rush Hour Utrecht (Netherlands)”
If more cities could manage transit like this, we’d have less need for the likes of BP: (via Good Blog)
Year: 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: TARDIS spotted in 7,000-year-old cave painting?
A cave painting in Utah dating from around 5000 BC appears to depict the TARDIS, which is pretty cool. Of course the Doctor would have visited the native peoples of ancient Utah for a nice relaxing sedentary hunter-gatherer vacation. The British newspaper The Sun, via which I discovered this image, reliably tries to turn this … more…
poster convergence: ‘North by Northwest’ and ‘Buried’
Saul Bass, call your office. Claustrophobia and paranoia: the suspense filmmaker’s best friend. And hard straight lines are the postermaker’s best friend. In case you’re not familiar with it, Buried (official site, IMDB), coming this autumn, is about Ryan Reynolds getting buried alive, and presumably having to save himself. It’s like Phone Booth, but deadlier. … more…
can the big studios and multiplexes learn from the success of alt opportunities for communal film consumption?
The U.K. box office had one of its worst weekends in years — since December 2004, in fact — this past Friday through Sunday. Killers was the top film, debuting with just a little over £1 million in takings, and the overall box office down 22 percent from the previous weekend, which was already awful, … more…
I Am Love (review)
Tilda Swinton, matriarch of a ridiculously wealthy Milan family, has sex with a man not her husband. And she *likes* it. So she must be punished.
wtf: Syfy wants us viewers to create one of its Saturday night original films
Can it possibly get any better (ie: worse) that Stonehenge Apocalypse? The geek mind boggles… and eagerly awaits the results of Syfy’s latest experiment. From a press release (I wanted to cut it down, but it’s all so horrifying and delicious): New York, NY – June 22, 2010 – Want to create the next mega-Syfy … more…
trailer break: ‘The Green Hornet’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I thought Michel Gondry was gonna make a superhero movie that didn’t look like every other damn superhero movie. Wasn’t that the idea? Or did Columbia get cold feet at the last minute when they suddenly realized they’d hired a weird-ass French arthouse director and strongarmed him … more…
question of the day: Jimmy Kimmell live via webcam: surprise success, or should he keep his day job?
I don’t watch Jimmy Kimmel Live, but I’m wildly intrigued by the episode that aired last night (which I only just heard about this morning). When Kimmel’s studio lost partial power on Monday night, laying low cameras and the control room, he turned on his laptop, fired up his webcam, and, as Dave Itzkoff at … more…
Knight and Day (review)
*Knight and Day* may have generic characters doing generic things in generic situations, but it’s got Movie Stars with huge white smiles looking pretty and being blandly inoffensive in exotic foreign locales. What’s that? You need more than that? Why do you hate Hollywood?
