‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: a bit of the extras from the Season 5 DVD set
Matt Smith’s video diary from the set shows that he really is an adorable dork about this Doctor Who job of his…
Year: 2010
Due Date (review)
Welcome to the ritual humiliation of Robert Downey Jr. Gotta wonder if the dude simply is a masochist who enjoys looking deeply embarrassed onscreen or if someone has some serious dirt on him — worse than the stuff we already know about him, that is. Or maybe he’s just a whore who will do anything for the $12 million he reportedly received for this film…
trailer break: ‘Faster’ redband trailer
I can’t really tell what this movie is about except that Dwayne Johnson is really pissed…
question of the day: What movies are important to you, and why?
I think it’s safe to assume that if you’re regularly reading a site devoted to movies, like this one, that you generally believe that movies overall are important. But are there specific movies that you consider personally important? And if so, what is it about those movies that make them important to you?
screencap Friday: what the flick? #148
No one’s gonna guess this one…
watch it: “Tory Island dog swimming with dolphin”
On a remote Irish island, the hotel dog has gone all transpecies…
Nowhere Boy (review)
Oh, we already know how it ends! John Lennon starts a band and ends up bigger than God. Before that, though… whew. There’s a whole lotta psychosexual stuff packed into Nowhere Boy, the tale of Lennon’s adolescence in Liverpool, which may or may not be true, but it sure makes for a smashing film.
Megamind (review)
I like superhero stories that play with the tropes… and if such a story can take us to new places within a genre that seems like it must be totally played out by now, even better still. It turns out that Megamind is, in fact, just that kind of movie.
watch it: 1980s California raisins commercial
Those damn singing raisins were everywhere in the 80s…
I’ve had a horrible day…
…of near coulda-been disasters — a gas leak in my building that had been ongoing for at least 12 hours, probably more like 18 or 24 — and then, after the firemen and police finally left late this morning, an Internet outage.
