trailer break: ‘Princess Kaiulani’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… It’s like The Young Victoria, but with leis and pineapples. Princess Kaiulani opens in the U.S. and Canada on May 14; no U.K. release date has been announced.
Year: 2010
question of the day: Does it help or hurt when real-life cops connect the Times Square would-be bombing to Jack Bauer and ‘24’?
It was bad enough when politicians and pundits hellbent on turning the United States into some sort of Orwellian nightmare of vanished civil liberties, all in the name of keeping us “safe,” invoked the right-wing wet dream that is Jack Bauer and 24. From high-tech toys that spy on anybody to the right to torture … more…
Iron Man 2 (review)
This is the metric by which I ended up measuring *Iron Man 2*: By the time it was over, did I actually *want* to see it again this weekend with my geek gang? And the answer ended up being Yes…
watch it: 1980s Prime Computer ads (with Tom Baker and Lalla Ward)
Oh, wow. Where to begin even calculating the awful? I’d probably start with the typo — “ITS’” — in the first ad (if the computer’s grammar is that bad, I’m not gonna trust it to do anything), and then move on to the painful sexual innuendo in the last two ads. Prior to this, I … more…
Rodrigo Garcia on making movies about women (interview)
Rodrigo Garcia’s latest film, Mother and Child, opening tomorrow in the U.S. and Canada, is that rarest of rarities these days: a serious film about motherhood that does not resort to clichés and stereotypes but explores what is for many women the central experience of their lives without either denigrating it or dismissing it. The … more…
because Syfy really hates sci-fi, and its viewers
Okay, I’m a dork: I know this. But I’m typically out most nights of the week at screenings, and I really look forward to vegging on the sofa on Friday nights. Of late, this has involved some Syfy original programming: Caprica, Eureka, Stargate Universe, etc. This will soon end (via the L.A. Times blog Company … more…
trailer break: ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… As is typical with Disney films, embedding of this trailer is disabled for the domestic version by the U.S. arm of Disney… but Disney U.K. is, for some bizarre reason, happy to have site owners like me give the film free advertising. So: Jerry Bruckheimer and videogame … more…
question of the day: Should we be surprised at the resurgence of Betty White?
I’ve been a bit mystified by all the Betty White love that’s been going around recently, but I hadn’t given it too much thought because Internet memes like this one come and go and often remain inexplicable even after you try to analyze them. But because I hadn’t been paying too much attention to the … more…
watch it: “You Can’t Trust Science!”
Ooo, it starts getting mean about halfway through…
caption this! image from ‘Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time’
Fun for Wednesdays! We look at an image from an upcoming movie or TV show and write snarky, witty, or otherwise entertaining captions for it. No prizes, it’s just for fun. “Jason and Amber were reasonably sure they still had a shot at winning the Mary and Joseph lookalike contest even though they’d lost baby … more…
