what happens when all film critics are amateurs?
Do you think my writing has improved over the life of this site? I think it has… dramatically. That’s because I’m writing all the time. I’d like to continue to do so.
Year: 2011
Friday night fortune cookie: Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding says…
“If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.”
Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 4: “Escape to LA” (review)
So many dull yet dreary questions raised by this episode! But perhaps the most pressing one is this: Is Esther the dumbest CIA agent ever?
Doctor Who thing of the day: yet another Season 6.2 trailer
There’s not much new here that we didn’t see in the first, longer trailer, but that won’t stop us from latching onto the few snippets of new stuff and tearing them down into their component parts.
deep thought (re a necessary ‘Ice Age’ sequel)
After next year’s Ice Age: Continental Drift, I demand Ice Age: Mass Extinction.
Anne Hathaway as Catwoman (No Superhero Left Behind)
We’re aiming, by 2015, to ensure that no caped crusader, no accidentally mutated do-gooder, no vigilante crime fighter goes unrebooted. Time is running out. Won’t you help?
cute animal video: “Baby Porcupine Learning To Climb”
All baby animals are apparently roly-poly. Even the prickly ones.
question of the day: What do you dread most about Brett Ratner’s upcoming Oscars ceremony?
The homophobia? The racism? The sexism? The fact that he may just blow up the auditorium in a fit of impotent childish rage?
Tower Heist (trailer)
It’s funny cuz the black guy is the criminal. It’s funny cuz the Hispanic guy is stupid…
London photo of the day: gourmet Lucky Charms
Lucky Charms junk breakfast cereal, available as a specialty item in the ultragourmet grocery shop Fortnum & Mason…
