watch it: 1980s Pac-Man commercial
I forgot how crappy Pac-Man looked at home…
Year: 2011
trailer break: ‘Lord of the Dance 3D’
Ho boy. I saw Lord of the Dance at Radio City Music Hall in New York a godawful number of years ago, and I remember being flattened back into my seat by what was basically Riverdance gone Vegas.
watch it: “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate”
With PBS’s funding coming under fire in the new Congress, it’s worth taking a look back to 1969, when children’s TV host Fred Rogers defended American public broadcasting before the Senate during another era when it was threatened.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Matt Smith talks to Digital Spy about the upcoming season, and being the Doctor
Smith says there’s a Toby Whithouse script in the upcoming series: Maybe the Doctor drops in on Mitchell, George, Nina, and Annie?
Rango (review)
How can it be that a kiddie movie is wiser and funnier and more relevant than the Coens Brothers’ True Grit? This is, in fact, what a Coens’ animated flick might look like and sound like, if they got an assist from Terry Giliam: this is a deeply weird and deeply demented movie, and thrillingly so.
trailer break: ‘The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec’
Oh. My. God. How cool does this look?
question of the day: Are today’s kids watching old movies?
I do know, from the one teenager I’ve had regular contact with in recent years, that she, at least, eagerly listens to and loves pop music from as far back as the 1950s (she adores Patsy Cline, for one). iTunes and downloadable music in general has made this music much more readily accessible — and easier to sample — than was once true. But is the same true of old movies?
Weinstein Company has a fucking comment on the shit piss fuck PG-13 version of ‘The King’s Speech’!
It’s sort of like someone getting blasted by an atom bomb and then commenting on how lovely and warm the weather suddenly is.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the power of the Doctor is such that even people who’ve never seen the show are able to parody it with such love
Kate Beaton from Halifax says she’s never seen Doctor Who, but then how could her cartoon be so eerily accurate?
wtf: ‘Clash of the Titans 2’ will be converted to 3D
Our Hollywood overlords hate us.
