question of the day: Is network television dead?
I feel like we’ve been having this same conversation every September for the last few years, but each year it does seem more urgent…
Year: 2010
retro trailer: ‘The Black Swan’ (1942)
It’s Tyrone Power as a lusty adventurer on the high seas for Talk Like a Pirate Day…
a few thoughts on ‘Mad Men’: “The Summer Man”
Is Don suddenly getting introspective? Maybe he really will end up running off to Haight-Asbury eventually (as I speculated, only half jokingly, a while back) and writing a novel or something.
Chilean mine disaster: the movie; Justin Bieber goes to Hollywood; Muppets online; more: leftover links
Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…
question of the weekend: Why are there no male muses?
The notion of women inspiring men to make art seems ‘normal,’ but the converse — men inspiring women to make art — is just about unheard of…
Friday night fortune cookie: Andy Dufresne says…
“Hope is a good thing. Maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies.”
watch it: “Happy Inside” (the Ikea 100 cats commercial)
One hundred cats roam the Ikea store in Wembley, England, in one of the most effective ads for anything I’ve ever seen.
Easy A (review)
The secret is out: Hollywood knows how to make movies about authentic female human beings. It just chooses not to do so 97 percent of the time.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “Alternate Empire” Episode 2
The next installment in a fan film that’s also a crossover with the Star Wars universe…
