the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Desiring God: Finding Complete Satisfaction and Joy in God’
Or, How to Have Hot Passionate Sex With Your Imaginary Friend…
Year: 2011
trailer break: ‘The Eagle’
Channing Tatum as a soldier in Roman Britain? Oh, that is adorable.
question of the day: What vibe do you get off Steven Spielberg’s ‘Terra Nova’?
Somehow I missed the news last spring that Steven Spielberg and some creative folks from Star Trek and 24 were launching one of the most expensive science fiction TV series ever. But now Terra Nova is on the Fox broadcasting schedule — a two-hour preview will air on May 23 and May 24 before the show returns for 13 episodes in the fall of 2011 — and the anticipation (or the dread) is building…
watch it: ‘The Green Hornet’ 1940 serial, chapter 1: “The Tunnel of Terror”
If you like the new Green Hornet — or even if you don’t — you may want to check out this 1940 serial, which begins with this installment…
Syfy ruins ‘Being Human’
Proper Being Human is nuanced and subtle. All of that has been stripped out of Syfy’s Being Human. It’s infuriating. And enraging. And completely unnecessary.
I have no keys
Oh, I’ve temporarily been carrying around a set of keys to my brother’s apartment, where I’ve been staying for the past week-plus. But I’ll give those back tomorrow, when I leave. It feels weird to have no keys to anything…
trailer break: ‘The Roommate’
Bitches be crazy! In the shower!
question of the day: What aspect of modern entertainment would most disappoint Martin Luther King Jr. today?
Would it be how rap artists have turned “nigger” into almost a term of endearment? Would it be how desperation to see black faces on film pushes audiences to the almost universally dreadful films of Tyler Perry? Something else?
Armond White makes Annette Bening cry; Fight Club: The Musical?; Wal-Mart woos NYC with ad campaign; more: leftover links
Plus: Will Natalie Portman’s pregnancy win her an Oscar?; watch out for ‘Ghost Rider 2’; accusations of fraud and corruption at the Golden Globes; more…
Saturday cute: skull cake — yum!
Alas, poor Yorick: you shouldn’t be so delicious in death.
