trailer break: ‘Oranges and Sunshine’
Great cast: Emily Watson, David Wenham, Hugo Weaving. Anything to make yet another real-life sad tale go down easier.
Year: 2011
question of the day: What would you do with a ‘Limitless’ pill?
Are there things that you would like to do but feel that they’re beyond your capabilities now? What would the positive and negative side effects of your endeavors be, for yourself and for the world at large?
watch it: “King Philip IV”
Improv Everywhere strikes again, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Series 6 prequel scene
Richard Nixon: now there’s a villain for the Doctor to smack down. I look forward to this.
trailer break: ‘Killing Bono’
Oh, I hope this is funny. Other people’s thwarted dreams and missed opportunities usually make me want to cry, so I hope this is funny instead.
question of the day: Does it make any difference to ‘Black Swan’ if Natalie Portman did not do most of the dancing herself?
I never thought Mark Hamill was really flying an X-wing. I never thought Ray Liotta was actually a gangster. But the collective power of the movie surrounding them created the illusion that they were. Some of that illusion is created by actors, some by special FX, some by other people talented in myriad ways. Surely what matters is the total illusion, not the breakdown of who created which part of it. Or am I wrong?
Sucker Punch (review)
This SUCKER PUNCH from my man Zack Snyder is just like so totally fukkin awesome I dont even know where to start. Who the fuk wants to watch fukkin hobbits gettin all weepy and shit get to the part where we get to see orcs vomittin black blood when there heads get loped off and shit. And its all in the fukkin slomo shit where you can like really savor that shit and make it last. Thats what SUCKER PUNCH is just one long aaaaahhhh of awesomeness.
FX overload is killing next season’s TV; Sammy Hagar comes out as alien infiltree and crazy person; Brad Pitt’s ‘World War Z’ probably dead; more: leftover links
Plus: You will not be able to avoid having Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding soundtrack downloaded into your brain…
Saturday cute: if Apple made water
Mmm, refreshing!
question of the weekend: When did “feminism” become a dirty word?
I’m predicting that my review of Sucker Punch (to be posted on Monday) — and probably some of those by other critics, or at least by female critics — will be met by some readers with slurs of “feminist” hurled back at me. And that word will be intended as a slur. How did we get here?
