question of the weekend: Is a new intellectual culture taking shape in America?
If so, can it happen fast enough to save us?
Year: 2011
Friday night fortune cookie: Kermit the Frog says…
“Life’s like a movie. Write your own ending.”
watch it: “Albino Porcupine Eating an Acorn”
I’m totally naming my band Albino Porcupine…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Kenneth Branagh is a Whovian
Listen for Craig Ferguson pimping out Karen Gillan to Branagh. Also, there’s a quite bad double entendre about the TARDIS. Fun!
Bridesmaids (review)
Progress! Hollywood has recognized the comedic value of women! If you’ve had it up to here with movies all about fat dudes who are disgusting and crude and that’s all extra funny cuz they’re fat, then behold: Bridesmaids features not one but two very overweight women who will gross you out with their flab, their sexual desires, their farts, their inability to recognize the personal space of others, and other revolting things that are doubly hilarious coming from fatties!
Take Me Home Tonight (review)
Hey, I love Duran Duran, too, but 80s nostalgia as a thing is so ten years ago… just about the time that the 33-year-old Topher Grace would have been the right age to play the just-out-of-college, I-dunno-what-to-do-with-myself whiner he plays here…
trailer break: ‘Life in a Day’
It’s like Koyaanisqatsi via YouTube…
question of the day: Will we ever see an avowed atheist as a cinematic hero?
Few characters of any kind on film (or TV) express any kind of religious belief, but it’s still far more common to see explicitly religious characters than it is to see explicitly areligious characters…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Neil Gaiman talks about writing for ‘Doctor Who’
Gaiman talks about “The Doctor’s Wife” with Den of Geek. No spoilers in my excerpts here…
what he said: Devin Faraci at Badass Digest…
…about why Thor has the wrong ending (spoilers, of course)…
