Friday night fortune cookie: Ferdinand the duck says…
“The life of an anorexic duck doesn’t amount to much in the broad scheme of things.”
Year: 2011
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Doctor Who’-themed bar opens in Brooklyn
It may not represent the best tribute to our favorite Time Lord, however…
The Adjustment Bureau (review)
It keeps us on our intellectual and emotional toes as it blithely bounces us around thorny philosophical koans and lets us peek behind the scenes of the universe at the charming puppetmasters who pull the strings. But for the heaviness of the film’s metaphysics, there is something ineffably light and charming about it. If Frank Capra made The Matrix, it would be The Adjustment Bureau.
trailer break: ‘Mars Needs Moms’
Mars needs moms to tell them to eat their broccoli? Oh, yes, that’s what turns out to be the case. Doesn’t Mars need dads, too?
question of the day: How should we punish dirty slut Natalie Portman for glamorizing out-of-wedlock pregnancy?
Have you heard? That dirty dirty slut Natalie Portman has done a bad thing. No, not have sex — though she did do that bad thing, the nasty whore — but parade around at the Oscars looking beautiful and happy even though her belly is swollen with a bastard child. How dare she!
watch it: “Cat Safety Propaganda”
People on the Internets are weird.
A Woman Like That (review)
Forget movies about art as you’ve seen them before. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ellen Weissbrod takes a compellingly intimate tack in her look at the convention-busting 17th-century artist Artemisia Gentileschi, creating an extraordinary synthesis that is part art appreciation, part personal diary…
omg: Peter Davison is still in ‘Legally Blonde’ in the West End!
It never ever occurred to me to imagine that Peter Davison — who’s starring in the role Victor Garber played in the movie, with all-new singing and dancing — would still be in the show all these many many months later. But he is, and I’m so there…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: how Peter Davison got to Gallifrey One (yes, by TARDIS)
This video was taken by a fan in the audience for the opening ceremonies of Gallifrey One, the big Doctor Who convention that takes place in Los Angeles each February…
question of the day: What should we expect from the upcoming ‘Blade Runner’ sequels and prequels?
As as you ponder this question, keep in mind that it’s the folks who gave us The Blind Side and The Book of Eli who will be making these films. Try not to cry…
