question of the weekend: Seriously, what the fuck?
I mean, are they kidding? If they are kidding, who do they think they’re kidding, anyway? What kind of fools do they take us for? Can you believe this shit? No, really: Can you?
Year: 2010
retro trailer: ‘Road House’
I’ve actually never seen this movie. I have heard all the MST3K jokes about it, though, including the traditional singing of the classic holiday carol ‘Let’s Have a Patrick Swayze Christmas.’
Saturday cute: XKCD map of the Internet
I figure FlickFilosopher.com is some tiny speck of an island in the unnamed sea off to the southwest of the continent I have dubbed Blogania…
Friday night fortune cookie: Truman Burbank says…
“The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm!”
tres cool: ‘Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood’
Olivia de Havilland was 19 and Errol Flynn was 26 when they met doing screen tests for Captain Blood, and the chemistry between them — onscreen and off — was pretty much instant. Their tempestuous relationship encapsulates the heyday of the studio system, as this new book beautifully documents…
what he said: journalist and new-media researcher Jeremy Littau…
…on the Chilean mine disaster coverage, and how it’s representative of the insanity driving corporate media these days…
deep thought (re what kind of terrible I am)
I wish someone would tell me definitively: Am I a homophobic lesbian hater, or am I feminazi man hater? I guess I could be a self-hating, misanthropic lesbian homophobe. That sounds like an awful lot of work, though.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the politics that scrapped a ‘Doctor Who’ story in the 1970s
A BBC Radio 4 program last year — and just rebroadcast last week — goes into some detail about why the Doctor Who story “Shada” was never broadcast, and more…
question of the day: What movie would be the most horrifying one to adapt to a stage musical?
The other day I lamented the West End arrival next year of Ghost: The Musical. Today in the Telegraph there’s a review of the new stage version of Flashdance, and it ain’t pretty…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #145
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a TV show on DVD. Guess the TV show — you don’t need to guess the episode, just the show. And if you assume it’s something I’ve said I’m watching or said I like, you’re not necessarily on the right track.
