‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Daleks, Cybermen, and TARDIS gift wrapping paper
Get your geek on in holiday festive mode with these hilarious fan-made gift wrapping paper, and get all your wrapping done in, erm, a timely fashion.
Year: 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: more scarfs to trip over
Last week I posted a link to a site with instructions for making your own Tom Baker-era Doctor Who scarf. But as you may imagine, that site is hardly the only such one. You might also want to take a look at WittyLittleKnitter.com…
trailer break: ‘Yogi Bear’
Oh god make it stop. Please, someone, make it stop. Make it stop in 3D.
watch it: 1970s Bounty paper towels commerical
Following up on last week’s even older Bounty commercial, one many more of us will actually remember…
question of the day: What is your favorite cinematic turkey?
This could be a movie so wonderfully bad that you can’t help but love it. Or it could be a movie so terrible that you love to hate it. Or maybe you define “cinematic turkey” some other way…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: cute little joke on ‘Robot Chicken’
It’s silly and it’s geeky on multiple levels, but that’s Robot Chicken for ya…
trailer break: ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
I can’t wait to see how the film applies Swiftian satire on government, corruption, and religious tribalism to the modern 21st-century world.
question of the day: Can a Buffy movie be any good without Joss Whedon?
One fan suggests it’ll be like fan fiction, but not as interesting. Sounds about right to me, when Hollywood seems committed these days to generally distancing itself from any hint of cleverness or originality…
watch it: “TSA Enhanced Screening Procedures Explained”
It’s like watching Brazil coming true right before our eyes.
Love and Other Drugs (review)
Maybe the romantic comedy about a couple of sociopaths is where the Hollywood expression of the genre has been heading all along, since such films of recent vintage have been populated by unpleasant people doing unpleasant things in the hopes that we will be somehow charmed by them. Perhaps it was only a matter of time before pathological charm was deployed.
