question of the day: Is there any better choice than the Muppets for Oscar hosts?
Spongebob Squarepants? Troy McClure and Rainier Wolfcastle? Who else could we trust with this noble endeavor?
Year: 2011
London photo of the day: horses in Hyde Park
Equestrians in Hyde Park, from the top of the No. 73 bus.
Immortals (review)
It’s like if Samwise Gamgee wrote fan fiction about Greek mythology, and then Vogue magazine’s most outré photographers did a huge photo spread based on that…
Into the Abyss (review)
Here is the mystery and wonder of Werner Herzog: this is simultaneously his least Herzog-y film and also the most profound expression of Herzog-ness yet…
is there a problem viewing images on your end?
A reader just sent me an email regarding a problem viewing images at the site and in the full-content RSS feed…
The Awakening (review)
An elegantly creepy tale of a haunting that, wonder of wonders, one may approach equally well from the perspective of total supernatural belief or entrenched skepticism…
watch it: “Cinemetrics Visualization”
I find this totally fascinating. It’s a completely fresh way of examining a film from a technical standpoint, and a way of encapsulating the overall esthetic…
Doctor Who thing of the day: TARDIS Eruditorum
Check out the blog of a hopeless geek with a PhD in English who actually thinks Doctor Who is about something…
Coriolanus (trailer)
Yeah, baby! It’s Shakespeare with all the bloody violence and treachery. And the politics. *shudder*
question of the day: Leonardo da Vinci, action hero: is the prospect terrifying or awesome?
Mathematician, architect, sculptor, writer, scientist, inventor, action hero: Leonardo is James Bond and Q all in one no doubt devastatingly handsome package.
