trailer break: ‘Limitless’
I knew it! Bradley Cooper is not a normal human being: he’s super-duper posthuman awesome. No mere frail mortal human could possibly look like that.
Year: 2011
what am I keeping? my LCD flatscreen and my desk…
One was much too expensive to bear investing in again, and the other was such a crazy bargain that it has hopelessly endeared it to me…
Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2010 EDA Award winners
Lots of love for The Social Network, Black Swan, and The Kids Are All Right…
question of the day: Is Patton Oswalt right? Does geek culture have to die?
Oswalt is being tongue in cheek, but he’s also being serious: Pop culture has become all self-references, snake-eating-its-tail meta commentary on our own dorkiness. Could the only way to refresh pop culture — as well as the nerd love that worships it — be to destroy it all and start fresh?
watch: “Lego Black Ops”
I can’t tell if this is a parody or an homage. A little of both, perhaps…
trailer break: ‘Dirk Gently’
Anyone catch this? Any good? Not sure I’d have gone with Stephen Mangan for Gently, but they don’t ask me these things.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: make your own TARDIS birdfeeder
It’s easy! Just go pour all the milk out of that half-gallon carton in the fridge and get started. The Blue Peter Web site has full instructions…
who is Ebert protege Ignatiy Vishnevetsky?; Hollywood hates Netflix; the FCC delivers smackdowns to broadcasting’s old guard; more: leftover links
Plus: celebs run afoul of Twitter; is True Grit going to the Oscars?; Hurley’s lotto numbers come up (almost); more…
Saturday cute: old-fashioned joystick for your newfangled iPad
This could make Ms Pac-Man even more of a flashback to a seventh-grade Saturday night at the roller rink than it already is…
question of the weekend: What one possession do you treasure above all else?
Imagine that all the usual important stuff — your children, your pets, family photos, important papers, and the like — is accounted for. That leaves you to pick the one thing you love selfishly just for itself…
