film and modern Olympics born within six months of each other in mid 1890s (and other adventures in social networking)
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Month: August 2012
Doctor Who thing of the day: TARDIS sock monkey
And that sure looks like a stuffed Adipose peeking in from the right…
The Paperboy (trailer)
Sweaty Southern noir. With a bouffant. Okay, then.
question of the day: What pop songs always remind you of the films they were used in?
Me? I cannot ever hear Eric Clapton’s “Layla” and not think of GoodFellas…
London photo of the day: it is balloon!
Blimp over Nelson’s Column.
big-name SF writers of 1987 make predictions about life in 2012 (and other adventures in social networking)
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Sound of My Voice (review)
Argh! Actor and screenwriter Brit Marling has done it again! She’s come up with an intriguing science-fictional concept as the basis for an indie arthouse drama — and she doesn’t know what to do with it.
Doctor Who thing of the day: wait! Christopher Eccleston has more to do with the Doctor?
What do you think? Is there a chance Eccleston could be lured back to Doctor Who?
Life of Pi (trailer)
I am happy to have a new film from Ang Lee. And this looks, literally, fantastic. Glowing whale!
question of the day: If we can get this excited about the real Mars, why can’t we make a decent movie about that planet?
“A jet-fired hover crane just lowered a nuclear robot bigger than my car onto Mars. Then it emailed us pics, from the other side of the sun.” If reality is this cool, how is it possible that every movie about Mars is pretty bad?
