Year: 2011
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: K9 hearts R2
What happens when one robot dog meets another? Oh, yes, R2D2 is the tin dog of the Star Wars universe…
the oh-yes! DVD of the week: ‘Stephen Fry & The Gutenberg Press’
Can cool stuff get any nerdier than this?
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘UFOs Do Not Exist: The Grand Deception and Cover-Up of the UFO Phenomenon’
UFOs don’t exist, but they do… and the government knows about them!
The Lincoln Lawyer (review)
Josh Lucas and Matthew McConaughey have never actually appeared onscreen together before. It had been entirely possible, up till this moment, that they were the same person, in a Jekyll-and-Hyde sort of way. Would this be how the universe ends, with parallel-universe versions of the same actor causing all of infinity to collapse into some hellish singularity?
what he said (not): film critic Chris Vetter on ‘Paul’…
…about the film’s “evolution world-view”…
trailer break: ‘X-Men: First Class’
Oh man, James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender? Yum.
question of the day: Would variable pricing of tickets get more people going to the movies, and would you welcome it?
But a ticket long in advance, it’s cheaper; wait till the last minute, pay through the nose. Want a first-class seat? That’ll cost you more. Attending a film no one else wants to see? You get in at a bargain. Would this work?
watch it: “Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s Star Wars”
Oh my god, these guys are such geeks.
His & Hers (review)
From a girl-infant’s cries as her father puts her down to the laments of elderly women who’ve outlived their husbands, here are 70 women talking about the men in their lives with the kind of casual frankness, bald honesty, and total love that typically gets bypassed on film in favor of empty rom-com fantasies.
