watch it: 1927 color footage of London
The closest you and I will ever get to time travel.
Year: 2011
trailer break: ‘Hesher’
All kids should have heavy-metal guardian angels. Especially if they’re Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
question of the day: Do you feel left out if you don’t see a big movie on opening weekend?
If you don’t head out opening weekend, when do you make it a point to see a big new film: a few weeks later? not till DVD? never?
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Rebel Flesh”
I started off thinking, Oh, hey, it’s like an episode of classic Doctor Who: Go to a place where something dodgy is happening, do a thing, rescue some people, be responsible for the deaths of others, go home. But this turns out to really be about something else…
blame Twitter for Wil Wheaton’s nonblogging; ‘Shit My Dad Says’ shitcanned; Catherine Tate may take over ‘The Office’; more: leftover links
Plus: Cannes shocked by We Need to Talk About Kevin and Lars von Trier; family values robot from the future Arnold Schwarzenegger turns out to be a hypocrite…
no ‘Doctor Who’ blogging on “The Rebel Flesh” till tonight
Sorry: real life intrudes. Feel free to chat here about the episode if you can’t wait.
great movie quotes: ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides’
“Does this face look like I’ve been to the Fountain of Youth?” –Captain Teague (Keith Richards), and more
Saturday cute: knitted Rebel Alliance emblem
The coolest thing about this is how it came about…
question of the weekend: How have you prepared for the Rapture?
It is unlikely that you will be among the lucky few who are teleported up into the glorious presence of the Almighty, so you’ll have to have something to keep you busy during the tortures of the damned here on Earth…
Friday night fortune cookie: Captain Jack Sparrow says…
“The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers.”
