Trust (review)
For a goodly while, it does feel, depressingly, as if Trust is going to morph into one of those luridly melodramatic made-for-Lifetime flicks gone theatrical feature thanks to the presence of a stellar cast…
Month: July 2011
Brighton photo of the day: basketball game
Fancy hotel looks out over the beach — and over a basketball court.
probably not even Genghis Khan can prevent Steven Seagal’s Genghis Khan epic
I asked recently about preposterous casting, inviting readers to invent the most ridiculous pairing of actor and role imaginable. But no one came close to this, which is real…
upcoming Cinemarati Meetups in London
I’ve just scheduled a bunch of Meetups for the next few weeks. Here’s what’s on offer…
Brighton photo of the day: hen party
Women on a hen party outing.
Saturday cute: Boba Fett Tiffany lamp
Actually not by Louis Comfort Tiffany. Unless he was secretly a geek. And could see into the future to a movie that wouldn’t exist till nearly half a century after he died. Yeah, that’s it.
question of the weekend: The space shuttle program is over, NASA’s budget is getting slashed: what’s the next big thing in space?
I feel that unless the U.S. realigns its priorities away from endless war and back toward science and exploration, it’s over as a spacefaring nation. The 21st century in space will be Chinese, I suspect: I bet they’ll put a man (and probably a woman) on Mars by 2025.
Friday night fortune cookie: Bugs Bunny says…
“Don’t take life too seriously. You’ll never get out alive.”
Brighton photo of the day: on the pier
On the pier at sunset.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: hug a Dalek, squeeze the TARDIS
I don’t know what this soft squeezable talking TARDIS says — “Do fish have fingers?” perhaps, or maybe, “My thief!” — but I like it. Forbidden Planet says it’ll be available in August. Just the idea of hugging the TARDIS seems wonderful to me.
