‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: TARDIS e-reader cosy
Dr Rocketscience anticipated me yesterday when he posted a comment about the knitted TARDIS Nook cover his wife had made for him…
Month: January 2011
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Princess and the Pony’
I’m gonna get a pony for my birthday!
having any trouble with YouTube videos here?
I’ve gotten a report from one user that the trailer image that shows up on the home page isn’t the one it should be, though it’s okay once she clicks though. Anyone else having this problem?
trailer break: ‘Unknown’
It’s Taken, except now Liam Neeson is the one missing and he has to find himself. What a twist!
question of the day: What are your thoughts on the Oscar nominations?
I’m surprised — in the most pleasant way — by all the love for Winter’s Bone. It’s a great film, but a tough one, and it’s not usually the kind of movie that gets this much attention from the Academy…
HBO is coming to the U.K.
Either people are actually very excited about HBO’s programming — such as Boardwalk Empire — coming to the U.K. on an official, this-is-HBO basis, or else Sky just wants people to be excited.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: TARDIS tea cosy
I want this. I want to have a cup of tea with the Doctor, too, but that’s a more distant fantasy.
I Love You Phillip Morris (review)
Bad Santa writers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa graduate to writer-directors here, and give us a warmly human and hugely funny story that’s almost a sendup of both prison melodramas and hetero romantic comedies… yet is also a truly amorous and very satisfying tale about the extremes to which a man will go for love.
question of the day: How ridiculous is the outrage over MTV’s American adaptation of ‘Skins’?
It’s worth noting that the U.K. version of Skins is about to debut its fifth series this week, and the country is, for the most part, still standing. I have seen no wild gangs of feral teenagers, those who were not protected from Skins, roaming the streets, mugging dogs and harrassing old ladies…
watch it: “Edward R Murrow: TV is being used to deceive us – 1958”
It’s well worth reminding ourselves that what Murrow warned us about more than half a century ago — that “our mass media… television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse and insulate us” — is still our reality today.
