must reads: “R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011”
Matt Zoller Seitz at Salon laments the death of the analog film movie camera…
Year: 2011
television about books… and people actually watch it
So there’s this show on BBC Two in which the gimmick is that all the people in a small Scottish town are roped in to read the shortlisted titles for a prestigious literary award…
things you need to know: Page Three models and reality-TV stars are at home at Oxford University
Glad to see the prestige of Oxford University is able to endure — and thrive, even — in our glossy shallow modern culture…
watch it: “Short film in fake English”
Wow: this is amazing. This is what English sounds like if you don’t understand it.
Doctor Who thing of the day: every regeneration from William Hartnell to Matt Smith in 10 minutes
Upon which Stuart Ian Burns offers the second of his “universal theories” of Doctor Who…
Shame (trailer)
Yes, this is the sex-addiction drama you’ve heard about. Yes, this is the “Michael Fassbender goes full-frontal” flick.
question of the day: Is there a “best” storytelling genre, and if so, what is it?
It seems obvious to me that science fiction is the best genre if telling intriguing and original stories is your primary concern…
London photo of the day: it’s Halloween *and* Christmas at Waitrose
It’s the most marketable time of the year.
watch it: Marine shames 30 NYPD cops in Times Square (Occupy Wall Street)
Some of those young cops looks ashamed. As they should.
please with the Justin Bieber make it stop, Arthur Christmas Edition, thank you
I saw Arthur Christmas last weekend and really liked it but that might be because Justin Bieber had yet to warble all over it.
