watch it: “Cat Safety Propaganda”
People on the Internets are weird.
Month: March 2011
A Woman Like That (review)
Forget movies about art as you’ve seen them before. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod takes a compellingly intimate tack in her look at the convention-busting 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi, creating an extraordinary synthesis that is part art appreciation, part personal diary…
omg: Peter Davison is still in ‘Legally Blonde’ in the West End!
It never ever occurred to me to imagine that Peter Davison — who’s starring in the role Victor Garber played in the movie, with all-new singing and dancing — would still be in the show all these many many months later. But he is, and I’m so there…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: how Peter Davison got to Gallifrey One (yes, by TARDIS)
This video was taken by a fan in the audience for the opening ceremonies of Gallifrey One, the big Doctor Who convention that takes place in Los Angeles each February…
question of the day: What should we expect from the upcoming ‘Blade Runner’ sequels and prequels?
As as you ponder this question, keep in mind that it’s the folks who gave us The Blind Side and The Book of Eli who will be making these films. Try not to cry…
watch it: 1980s Pac-Man commercial
I forgot how crappy Pac-Man looked at home…
trailer break: ‘Lord of the Dance 3D’
Ho boy. I saw Lord of the Dance at Radio City Music Hall in New York a godawful number of years ago, and I remember being flattened back into my seat by what was basically Riverdance gone Vegas.
watch it: “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate”
With PBS’s funding coming under fire in the new Congress, it’s worth taking a look back to 1969, when children’s TV host Fred Rogers defended American public broadcasting before the Senate during another era when it was threatened.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Matt Smith talks to Digital Spy about the upcoming season, and being the Doctor
Smith says there’s a Toby Whithouse script in the upcoming series: Maybe the Doctor drops in on Mitchell, George, Nina, and Annie?
Rango (review)
How can it be that a kiddie movie is wiser and funnier and more relevant than the Coens Brothers’ True Grit? This is, in fact, what a Coens’ animated flick might look like and sound like, if they got an assist from Terry Giliam: this is a deeply weird and deeply demented movie, and thrillingly so.
