watch it: 1970s Mean Joe Green Coca-Cola ad
Perhaps the most classic of classic ads:
Year: 2010
should I blog about ‘Mad Men’?
I don’t have a real sense of how many serious Mad Men fans there are here. If I posted some reactions to Mad Men on an episode-by-episode basis, is this something a bunch of people here would be interested in? Is there a cadre of readers here who would like to discuss Mad Men after … more…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Stephen Fry disses ‘Doctor Who,’ Steven Moffat shoots back
This is a month old, but still worth getting to. In mid June, Stephen Fry delivered an address on the state of British television at a BAFTA event; the full text of Fry’s address is here, and it is a fascinating read. In it, he reminisces about the TV of his childhood — “When I … more…
deep thought (re Andrew Breitbart)
Outright lies are a valuable part of our national discourse.
omg: a modern Sherlock Holmes from Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss? I’m so there
Guardian, you had me at your headline: Sherlock Holmes is back… sending texts and using nicotine patches I had a similar idea years ago — I wanted to put Sherlock Holmes in New York’s East Village in the early 1990s, with bike messengers as the Baker Street Irregulars and faxes instead of telegrams — and … more…
what he said: A.O. Scott in ‘The New York Times’…
…about the Internet upheaval over Inception: If I had to issue a one-sentence manifesto for film criticism, it would be this: Any movie worth seeing is worth arguing about, and any movie worth arguing about is worth seeing. It really is as simple as that.
trailer break: ‘The Rebound’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Gonna have to call bullshit on this. A 40-year-old man is romantically partnered with a 30-year-old woman in a movie, and Hollywood doesn’t utter a peep of acknowledgement about the age difference, never mind make it the purpose of the entire movie. Hell, movies don’t acknowledge age … more…
question of the day: Has Hollywood ruined Comic Con?
Comic Con starts today in San Diego. I’ve never attended a Comic Con — well, apart from the upstart New York one a couple years back — it looks as if perhaps I may never get to experience San Diego Comic Con in the form that made it legendary in the first place. At least … more…
watch it: “DOODLEBUG – short film by Christopher Nolan”
Particularly intriguing in light of the themes of his Inception. From 1997: (via Shadow and Act)
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the ‘Guardian’ geekishly catalogues every villain and monster
I’m still trying to get my head around the geeky awesomeness that is the compilation of villainry and monsterness that the Guardian’s Data Blog has assembled for our fannish pleasure: This image doesn’t even begin to do it justice: the actual thingie is interactive, and I urge you to check it out if you’re simply … more…
