‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Amy calls out the Doctor on being such a tease…
I figure this scene must be included on the new Fifth Series box set, but I haven’t had a chance to delve into that yet…
Month: February 2011
trailer break: ‘The Last Lions’
Kittehs! Oh the fluffy cute kittehs! Enjoy them now before they go extinct!
watch it: where are all the women in film?
Seventy-seven percent of film critics are male? I figured it was a lot more, actually. All too often I’m the only woman in a screening room…
switched the blog’s timestamps over to Greenwich Mean Time
FlickFilosopher.com is now officially on London time…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: K-9 gets his own spinoff… and it’s already on DVD
Dunno how I missed hearing about the new kiddie series K-9 until I got an email from Amazon U.K. this morning, but I did. Though perhaps that’s a good thing, cuz it sounds sort of dire, like bad fan fiction…
watch it: “Waseem Wagdi, Egyptian protester. Egyptian Embassy, London. 29.1.11”
An Egyptian man in London is moved to tears talking about what’s happening in his homeland.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Patti Stanger: Married in a Year’
This might be the saddest thing ever…
trailer break: ‘Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son’
In which Martin Lawrence is punished for daring to transgress the gender boundaries of our hidebound culture with its narrow notions of what makes a man a man, and what makes a man an idiot who dresses in a granny fat suit, by getting whacked in the nuts.
question of the day: Are American broadcast TV and quality programming now hopelessly incompatible?
Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
