trailer break: ‘Outcasts’
Ooo, I’m really looking forward to this one. The BBC does science fiction so well. Here’s the premise…
Month: February 2011
it’s not Super Bowl Sunday in England…
This is how I spent not-Super Bowl Sunday in England: watching my little cousins getting their first horseback riding lessons as birthday presents, and getting free lessons in how to relax from silly dogs…
dodging the Egypt Internet crackdown; the Oscar race is already over; is Amazon going all out with unlimited streaming?; more: leftover links
Plus: Kelsey Grammer’s marriage ruined by Fox News; Wikileaks nominated for Nobel Peace Prize; why so few women writers at Wikipedia and major magazines?; more…
Saturday cute: ‘Star Wars’ Last Supper… with pizza
By photographer Robin Cook and friends…
retro trailer: ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
As we ponder the imminent arrival on our screens of the spectacle that is Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, let us pause to consider that he is hardly the first musically inclined young man that young ladies have screamed their heads off over…
question of the weekend: What seemingly unconnected consequences are we likely to experience as a result of global warming?
We’re already seeing some impact from global warming that might seem surprising, such as cities going bankrupt from snow removal, lost productivity when workers cannot get to work, and disruptions to personal lives because of lost vacation time…
Friday night fortune cookie: Otis B. Driftwood says…
“Let joy be unconfined. Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.”
Brighton Rock (review)
Call this a thriller of emotional suspense, and one that’s wickedly unsettling, in which we’re never sure who’s feeling what, or why, or to what extremes they’re capable of going.
wtf: ‘The Stand’ as a feature film?
The six-hour miniseries ABC did on TV in the 1990s wasn’t long enough. Unless Warner Bros. and CBS Films are proposing to do three three-hour films à la The Lord of the Rings, I don’t want to hear about this.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: retro B-movie posters of new episodes
Designer Stuart Manning has created a series of new posters in a 1960s retro B-movie style for the first Matt Smith series of episodes…
