best thing about ‘The Dark Knight Rises’?
They won’t have to change the title one bit for the porno version.
Year: 2010
British Airways contest extended: vote again, and often
You can vote for my entry once a day every day till November 19. I’d appreciate it if you would…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: photos from Cardiff location shooting
Cardiff is standing in for 1960s New York City. How convincingly can this be accomplished? Not too well, I’m guessing…
trailer break: ‘Morning Glory’
I wonder if, after the career he’s had, Harrison Ford is enjoying channeling Jack Nicholson…
watch it: “Woman stomped outside Conway-Paul debate”
And so the brownshirt phase of the end of America begins in earnest.
question of the day: What are the worst character names ever?
Total Film recently ran a hilarious piece entitled ‘30 Rubbishest Movie Character Names’ — their choices range from Grand Moff Tarkin in Star Wars to Silken Floss in The Spirit to Scut Farkus in A Christmas Story…
“Peace cunt”: hate mail I love
The charming thoughtfulness of a guy who would wish my peace while also calling me a cunt simply defies the protocols of etiquette. He didn’t need to take that extra step: he did so out of the generosity of his spirit.
not much blogging today…
I have decided no longer to feel guilty about not posting everything I would like to post everyday… unless a subscriber complains to me about it. Then I’ll feel guilty.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘The Search for Sherlock Holmes’
The search for who? Oh no: do we have to remind people yet again that Sherlock Holmes was never a real person, that he was a fictional invention of a writer of crime stories?
trailer break: ‘For Colored Girls’
I’ll be curious to see if Tyler Perry’s audience, which has come out in droves for his idiotic mishmashes of slapstick and melodrama, will come out again for a film that actually attempts to be a film, one with some actual ambitions and with something meaningful to say…
