G.I. Joe: Retaliation (trailer)
Another Michael Bay(TM) Hasbro(TM) movie for 2012…
Year: 2011
question of the day: How honest must nature documentaries be?
The BBC misled viewers about how it obtained footage of polar bear cubs in their den. Is such trickery acceptable if it helps tell a story?
London video of the day: bang the drum loudly
The Croydon Steel Orchestra, playing the other day near the East Croydon rail station.
must reads: “‘New Year’s Eve’: 10 Things That Could Never Happen as They Happened”
Lest today’s QOTD be misinterpreted as any sort of defense of New Year’s Eve, I invite you to join me in guffawing along with Mandi Bierly at PopWatch at the movie’s ridiculous mala-Big Apple-isms…
Doctor Who thing of the day: DW the top show on U.S. iTunes
Are you watching Doctor Who in the U.S.? Are you watching it after downloading it from iTunes? If so, you’re not alone.
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (review)
Oh, glorious steampunk! Oh, glorious Victoriana! Oh, for a time when men were men (and not little boys) and industry meant hard work (and not corporate malfeasance) and optimism (and not despair) ruled the day. When the future was so bright, you hadda wear shades.
Battleship (trailer)
I can see now that this is going to be a movie the terribleness of which I shall be obsessed with.
question of the day: What is the magic equation to gets people to go to the movies… or to stay away?
Or, why we probably shouldn’t be too excited that New Year’s Eve flopped…
London photo of the day: the closest I will ever be to Simon Le Bon
I was at the O2 arena tonight for Duran Duran live on stage. Lemme tell ya, if you’ve never been in a crowd of 20,000 40something women all having orgasms during “Hungry Like the Wolf,” you have not lived.
Doctor Who thing of the day: missing 1960s episodes found
It astonishes me to this day, though it’s a thing I learned many many years ago, that in the early days of television, no one bothered to archive much of what was produced and broadcast…
