calling bullshit on: blaming audiences for Hollywood’s sins…
… as *The Christian Science Monitor* does in a piece by staff writer Gloria Goodale. Under the headline ‘Why intriguing ‘Inception’ is the Hollywood exception,’ Goodale says…
Year: 2010
I’m putting out the donations cup…
I hate having to do it, but it looks like it’s necessary at the moment. If you’re in a position in this awful economy to donate a few bucks/quid/whatever and you’d like to help keep FlickFilosopher.com going, I’d be much obliged. No pressure, no guilt for those who can’t. I know how tough things are … more…
trailer break: ‘South of the Border’
Oh noes! Talking to peoples and getting their own perspectives on things rather than the slant of the American news media? What is the world coming to! Oh, Oliver Stone, you crazy person, you…
question of the day: What is your preferred way to watch movies, and how often do you actually get to do that?
By that I mean: Perhaps you like watching movies best in a multiplex, but for whatever reasons — the expense, the decline of the multiplex experience, etc — you mostly watch movies on DVD. And so on…
‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 2
Sure, the clothes look funny and there’s no cell phones, only giant cackling radios, but that’s a given. It’s all the other unexpectedly different 1973 stuff that’s so disturbing.
retro trailer: ‘The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother’
Enjoy Gene Wilder as a consulting detective who is even smarter than Sherlock Holmes, but somewhat more emotional…
omg: somewhere in an alternate universe, Lisa Simpson is getting married today
Reader Martin reminds me that in a Simpsons-flavored parallel future-now, today — August 1, 2010 — was to have been the day that Lisa would have been marrying Hugh Parkfield…
save Paul Rudd; movie apathy; everybody loves ‘Mad Men’; 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…
Saturday cute: How to Become Super
This is only a section of the image — see the whole thing at 9Gag. (via Geeks Are Sexy) (Got a photo or image that’s adorable and at least vaguely pop-culture related? Found such a photo online? Send a link or an image, and I might post it!)
my reads: ‘The Passage’ by Justin Cronin
I admit I fell prey to the summer-blockbuster-read hype that got whipped up around *The Passage,* the first mainstream novel by literary writer Justin Cronin. Vampire novel! But sorta literary!
