The Comedian (London Film Festival review)
Lends a fresh depth of honesty and intimacy to a story that feels familiar on the surface but has rarely been plumbed with such insight or candor.
Month: October 2012
Wadjda (London Film Festival review)
Delightful and powerfully satisfying, an arthouse crowd-pleaser about a charmingly irrepressible protagonist… (new DVD/VOD UK)
Doctor Who thing of the day: support Doctor Who awareness
Looking for a way to show your allegiance to our favorite Time Lord? Afeared that devotion to the Doctor isn’t as strong as it might be in the world around you?
Smiley (trailer)
“The New Face of Fear”? Are they kidding? It’s yet another masked guy killing people… and we’re supposed to be excited because he’s wearing a slightly different sort of mask?
question of the day: 50 years of Bond, Beatles, and Doctor Who: coincidence or something in the water in early 60s Britain?
Three huge icons from across the pop culture spectrum were born in the early 1960s in Britain. Is that merely a fluke of fate?
London photo of the day: cream of the crop
The cool, calm houses of Hampstead, North London.
True Blood is the gay-friendliest show on TV (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Doctor Who thing of the day: Tom Baker scarf licensed merch
Trust me: you’re gonna want this.
On the Road (trailer)
Very much looking forward to this one. I loved Walter Salles’ Motorcycle Diaries, and this has a similar look and feel, so that’s promising. Also: Jack Kerouac.
question of the day: Which villains deserve stories of their own?
Pop culture is full of villains bursting with personality and charisma or merely so terrifyingly capable of evoking horror that we cannot look away from them. Yet these awesome bad guys inevitably take a backseat to the square-jawed white-bread hero. Time to rectify that.
