trailer break: ‘Scream 4’
I’m not sure I even care…
Month: April 2011
question of the day: Why are Christian movies so awful?
Why should a subset of American culture that dominates the way evangelical Christianity does be so insecure and defensive in its entertainments?
watch it: London double decker bus tilt tests
I’m enjoying riding on the top of London’s double-decker buses, and yet I’m not really sure why they don’t tip over.
did James Franco’s poor Oscar performance tarnish ‘Your Highness’?
Brent Lang at TheWrap asks this ludicrous question. In a word, No. In another word, Bwahahahahahaha. Your Highness is just plain awful. So why ask the question at all?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor (and Amy and Rory and River) in NYC
Great. I leave America, and all of a sudden Doctor Who is huge there…
watch it: “Combat Coffee 101”
Bored soldiers aren’t just goofing around with camcorders, they’re producing damn movies, with scripts and scores and jokes and edits and credits.
trailer break: ‘Game of Thrones’
Could it be? Serious high fantasy given a serious treatment by TV? Could this be the Battlestar Galactica of high fantasy?
question of the day: What movies (or other entertainments) do a good job of sending up high fantasy?
The awfulness that is Your Highness intends to be a sendup of high fantasy but mostly just engages the clichés of genre and embellishes them with a few swear words and bong hits. What other movies (or books, or TV shows, etc) get it right?
Oranges and Sunshine (review)
Hilarious true story. You’ll love this. In the 20th century, up until as late as 1970, thousands and thousands and thousands of British children were forcibly deported to Australia, where they were herded into group homes or other institutions, treated like slave labor, and subject to regular physical and sexual abuse on top of the emotional abuse of being ripped from their families, their homes, their country.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: guest appearance by the “Doc” in ‘Sally Forth’
When even groan-inducing American newspaper comic strips are making reference to Doctor Who, you know its influence has reached far and wide into the American psyche…
