screencap Friday: what the flick? #141 — now with prizes!
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.
Year: 2010
trailer break: ‘Waiting for ‘Superman’’
Education in the United States sucks. But worrying about it is left to lefty progressive documentary filmmakers in niche arthouse films. WTF?
question of the day: On October 30, will you attend Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity or Stephen Colbert’s March to Keep Fear Alive?
As Colbert often says, We’re at war: pick a side. I hope the DC police are ready for this.
watch it: 1960s Newport cigarette commercial
Ah, no! The happy beach smokers are jumping out of the TV!
you’re not helping: Casey Affleck admits ‘I’m Still Here’ is a put-on
Just the other day, I asked whether the likes of Casey Affleck and his is-it-real-or-is-it-fake documentary I’m Still Here was contributing to the loss of trust in our institutions. Turns out, he is.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Fish Fingers and Custard,’ the zine
Fish Fingers and Custard has just published its second issue, which is currently available only on paper delivered to your mailbox: that’s the place where unwanted catalogues and supermarket flyers still arrive.
Alpha and Omega (review)
The bizarre non sequiturs that pass for jokes — such as the golf-playing goose who really, really hates cupcakes — make the poop jokes sound like wit.
trailer break: ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’
The presence of Shia LaBeouf as Shia LaBeouf makes me wonder if giant alien robots will show up to stomp on the New York Stock Exchange…
question of the day: Can Roger Ebert’s new ‘At the Movies’ survive in the current TV environment?
Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…
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