trailer break: ‘Brighton Rock’
Carey Mulligan was all set to star here till she dropped out to do Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps…
Month: January 2011
my Oyster card…
…is still fresh, two years after I last used it, during my February 2009 trip to London. It even still had nearly 14 quid left on it!
creeping fascism: “There’s a soldier in all of us”
This Call of Duty: Black Ops ad has been bothering me. There most certainly is not “a soldier in all of us,” even if we like to play military style computer games. So why does this ad campaign — and this game — resonant with audiences?
wtf: Keith Olbermann off the air?!
Is it time to be scared yet?
Saturday cute: snow dragon
But doesn’t his flame breath melt his own self?
Nintendo says no to Justin Bieber; Ricky Gervais won’t host Golden Globes again; Michel Gondry not a fan of 3D; more: leftover links
Plus: Kevin Smith was lying about how cool it was to direct Bruce Willis in Cop Out; CBS now stealing ideas from German TV; Joan Rivers gets kicked off Fox for bitching about Sarah Palin; more…
retro trailer: ‘Waterloo Bridge’
A London movie for my first weekend in London. Perhaps I’ll meet a Robert Taylor during my stroll along the Embankment today…
question of the weekend: If you could move anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Imagine that money is not an object. Immigration hassles are not an issue. Your other obligations — to family, to work — are taken care of to the degree you’d like them to be taken care of (perhaps you’d like to run away from your job and your spouse! or perhaps you want to take them with you). Where would you go?
Friday night fortune cookie: Annie says…
“Fate plays a long game.”
deep thought (re the ‘Dilemma’ poster)
Men look just as ridiculous when Photoshopped into plastic as women do.
