question of the day: Is atheism standing in the way of an Emmy for Bill Maher?
Bill Maher is now the losingest Emmy nominee ever. Is there a nefarious reason why?
Year: 2010
watch it: “As Seen on TV – a tribute to doing it wrong”
It’s always astonishing how many people are unable to cope with life’s simplest tasks, such as cracking eggs and tying their shoelaces…
cinematic roots of: ‘Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D’
In Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D, the 187th installment in the series, Milla Jovovich continues kicking zombie ass in… and this time it’s in 3D! This flick sprang from (among other films)…
wtf: Sofia Coppola wins the Golden Lion, and so it must be favoritism?
Almost instantly on the heels of the news of Coppola’s win came grumblings that she only won because the jury president was Quentin Tarantino. Whom she once dated.
deep thought (re YouTube)
YouTube would make everyone’s lives much more pleasant if it allowed users to turn off autoplay…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: TARDIS Time Machine for Mac
The inevitable has happened: Some kid named Max crammed a 1TB hard drive into a TARDIS toy for a proper Time Machine for his Mac…
Resident Evil: Afterlife 3D (review)
Paul W.S. Anderson loves him some style without style, texture without substance: this is all white noise, visual static to make the movie pop more in 3D.
trailer break: ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’
This looks fun. I’m glad Woody Allen escaped to Europe: it seems to have done wonders for his creativity.
question of the day: What actresses should play Shakespeare’s great male characters?
Woo-hoo! Helen Mirren is going to play Prospero — the wizard has been redubbed Prospera — for a new film adaptation of The Tempest from director Julie Taymor…
retro trailer: ‘Wall Street’
Remember when wrecking companies and trading on inside information was merely cool, instead of something that gets a CEO bailed out by the federal government using taxpayer money? Good times, good times.
