watch it: “Science Saved My Soul.”
I like how videomaker philhellenes discusses how organized religion evolved to steal our sense of wonder, how it had to do that if it were going to survive against the “mindgasms” of “scientific revelation.”
Year: 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: beautiful minimalist posters, now for your wall
Remember those gorgeous graphic posters by French artist Karma Orange I featured back in August? Now you can download hi-res files for printing yourself, to hang on your very own actual, nonvirtual walls…
trailer break: ‘Blue Valentine’
This is the movie that the MPAA thinks is so hot and steamy and sexy and inappropriate for children to see that they slapped it with an NC17…
question of the day: Should Jon Stewart be afraid of Conan O’Brien?
Last winter, NBC booted Conan O’Brien out of its late-night NBC spot. O’Brien landed at the basic-cable channel TBS, and his new talk show debuts there tonight at 11pm Eastern. Guess who else is on at 11pm Eastern on basic cable?
James Franco takes on ‘Three’s Company’; making the pilgrimage to Middle Earth; ‘The King’s Speech,’ awards bait; more: leftover links
Plus, Tyler Perry, misunderstood genius; from Winter’s Bone to X-Men; cable subscribers flee; more…
Saturday cute: have you seen this missing unicorn?
I spotted this flyer taped to the side of a phone kiosk in Manhattan this week…
question of the weekend: Does a counterculture exist anymore, and if not, what can we do to get it back?
Obviously there are plenty of individuals who believe that the war in Iraq is illegal and who value integrity and principle. But there doesn’t seem to be anything unifying those people into action… and the results of this past Tuesday’s elections in the U.S. appear to suggest that the American public, in the aggregate, is dedicated to repudiating anything that could be called “counterculture,” or “liberal,” or “progressive”…
Friday night fortune cookie: Dr. Gregory House says…
“Everything sucks. Might as well find something to smile about.”
tres cool: Justin Long is a nice guy
Critic writes mean things about actor. Actor reads those mean things aloud on a talk show. Mortified critic posts insightful, soul-searching essay to the Web about why being mean is part of the job. Actor responds in comments, nicely and politely…
what he said: John Scalzi at Filmcritic.com…
…on “Why a Few Awesome Scenes Are Not Enough in Sci-fi Flicks”…
