The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (review)
Kooky-cutesy dramedy about British pensioners who retire to India, where they can be treated poorly in all new and exotic ways…
Month: February 2012
British Film Bloggers Circle announces 2012 awards
The British Film Bloggers Circle — a new organization of which I am a member — has announced the winners our first annual awards…
Black Gold (aka Day of the Falcon) (review)
There’s a lot of golden-age Hollywood in this tale of the earliest days, in the 1930s, of the Arab oil kingdoms. Some of it is just plain fun; some of it is cornball old-fashioned…
watch it: “The Muppets Rock Out in a Google+ Hangout”
Kermit and Beaker lip-synching to Queen and David Bowie’s “Under Pressure” is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen…
Doctor Who thing of the day: what the heck is going on in Cardiff?
Something is going on in Cardiff concerning Doctor Who that the council doesn’t want anyone to know about…
Being Flynn (trailer)
If only more movies were about men with wildly out-of-proportion-with-all-reality notions about themselves.
question of the day: Should 911/999 emergency calls be broadcast on television?
Do they add an important perspective on a story that could not be obtained in another way? Do they have true journalistic value? Or at they nothing more than lurid sensationalism?
London photo of the day: there is only one thing worse than being memorialized…
Memorial to Oscar Wilde near Charing Cross.
now with video of Starfleet officer Benedict Cumberbatch (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
watch it: “The 2012 Oscars and The Bechdel Test”
A smart and nuanced look from Feminist Frequency at how poorly women are represented in even the “best” films.
