question of the day: When was the last time you bought a CD, DVD, or blu-ray in a bricks-and-mortar store?
I know that the last time I tried to find a certain DVD in the few stores left in Manhattan that sell DVDs, it was an exercise in aggravation…
Year: 2010
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: build your own Dalek
Letters of Note — an awesome site that publishes cool old documents and letters — recently unearthed a most intriguing Doctor Who artifact…
Hatchet (review)
Writer-director Adam Green has been hailed as the future of horror: The future of horror is the past of horror, apparently.
The Virginity Hit (review)
If the grownup fimmakers have learned to move past the adolescent notion that girls and women are either virgins or whores and nothing in between, they nobly step aside to let Zack and Matt’s ideas about the male ownership of women — and the sullying of women that thereby occurs — dictate the course of the film.
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “The Beautiful Girls”
What a fantastic exploration of all the ways women worked to make themselves heard in a time when they were ignored and dismissed and expected to be nothing but pretty and silent. What a beautifully subtle and beautifully pointed episode.
trailer break: ‘Hatchet II’ unrated trailer
I’m not sure that an extra gory horror movie is quite the blow the MPAA deserves, but if this movie does well in limited release, perhaps it will convince the other multiplex chains that an unrated film is worth booking.
question of the day: Did you know that the Facebook movie ‘The Social Network’ is fiction?
I haven’t read extensively about the film, but I did assume that it would be at least loosely based on the reality of how Facebook came into existence. I think that’s not an unfair assumption. Am I wrong?
watch it: “Geek and Gamer Girls Song”
I’m definitely a geek girl, but I suddenly wonder if I’ve been doing it right. Because I’ve never found myself rolling around naked in piles of comic books, action figures, and Nintendo controllers. Now I must doubt myself and my geek girl creds…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: fan play ‘Hell Blossom’ on in London
I’ve heard of fan fiction, but fan theater?
you’re not helping: Hollywood’s rediscovery of nonblond nonbimbos does not a revolution make
Blondes can’t be surly and wisecracking? Surly wisecracking girls can’t be conventionally pretty? There are no pretty, blond geek girls? WTF?
