the oh-yes! DVD of the week: ‘Lark Rise to Candleford: Season Four’
Lark Rise to Candleford reminds me very much of All Creatures Great and Small, with its bucolic setting and mellow sense of humor hiding a subtle sharpness…
Year: 2011
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Sarah Palin’s Alaska’
Why won’t this woman just go away already?
trailer break: ‘Soul Surfer’
Wow! What an inspirational movie! What? You mean that’s not the movie? That’s just an ad for the movie?
question of the day: So who *will* direct the film adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
On Friday I posted an April Fool’s QOTD in which I suggested that Michael Bay was about to begin production on a ten-part 3D miniseries version of Neil Gaimain’s novel American Gods. As it turns out, I was unwittingly echoing Gaiman, who only a week earlier had announced that, indeed, a movie based on the book is in the works…
meetup accomplished!
The first get-together of the London Cinemarati came off without a hitch last night at the Freemasons Arms in Covent Garden…
Scott “Dilbert” Adams comes out of the closet as a misogynist; Duke Nukem Forever features “Capture the Babe” mode; how Disney invaded our childhoods; more: leftover links
Plus: Why Sucker Punch flopped at the box office; Facebook won’t delete photos of a corpse (even after the victim’s family asks nicely); the Guardian is coming to America…
Saturday cute: the dragon with the girl tattoo
By artist Bob Canada…
question of the weekend: Should we arm the Libyan rebels?
And by “we” I mean the coalition allies, not just the United States. And if we’re getting involved in internal Libyan affairs because of, ostensibly, humanitarian reasons, aren’t we obligated to do the same in other hotspots around the world, such as Ivory Coast?
Friday night fortune cookie: Buzz Lightyear says…
“To infinity… and beyond!”
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: guy built a TARDIS in his bedroom
This, right here, is some beautiful epic nerdery…
