switched the blog’s timestamps over to Greenwich Mean Time
FlickFilosopher.com is now officially on London time…
Year: 2011
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: K-9 gets his own spinoff… and it’s already on DVD
Dunno how I missed hearing about the new kiddie series K-9 until I got an email from Amazon U.K. this morning, but I did. Though perhaps that’s a good thing, cuz it sounds sort of dire, like bad fan fiction…
watch it: “Waseem Wagdi, Egyptian protester. Egyptian Embassy, London. 29.1.11”
An Egyptian man in London is moved to tears talking about what’s happening in his homeland.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Patti Stanger: Married in a Year’
This might be the saddest thing ever…
trailer break: ‘Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son’
In which Martin Lawrence is punished for daring to transgress the gender boundaries of our hidebound culture with its narrow notions of what makes a man a man, and what makes a man an idiot who dresses in a granny fat suit, by getting whacked in the nuts.
question of the day: Are American broadcast TV and quality programming now hopelessly incompatible?
Is “quality” now something that only a niche audience found on cable wants? What happened in less than 20 years, since the early 1990s, to so significantly alter the television landscape? And will things ever go back to the way they were?
watch it: “Juju’s message to Mubarak”
See? Eight-year-olds have good solutions to geopolitical problems. Let’s put Juju in charge and see if the world doesn’t get better quickly. Plus, there’d be more cookies for everyone, too.
Razzie nominations are in!
Oh, the glorious awfulness!
trailer break: ‘Drive Angry’
“Hell already is walking the earth.” Yes, it’s Nicolas Cage as Grandpa Action Hero. From hell. In 3D.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor saves the British National Television Awards
Ever have those nightmares when you oversleep and miss an important test or an airplane or something? Well, the Doctor — in a new scene written by Steven Moffat — comes to the rescue of National Television Awards host Dermot O’Leary, when he actually does oversleep and miss his big job…
