question of the day: Should movies have a salary cap like some sports do?
Capping overall FX and marketing budgets might make a difference, but it’s hard to imagine the studios agreeing to that… and even if they did, who would enforce it?
Month: October 2012
London photo of the day: it’s not easy being green…
…especially when people are gonna be such spoilsports about it.
people who actually hang out on IMDB are terrifying (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Hyde Park on Hudson (London Film Festival review)
Two separate tales of FDR that are certainly worthy of in-depth explorations on their own are mashed together in a way that is ridiculous and which gives both of them a short shift that neither deserves.
Doctor Who thing of the day: because your life is not complete without an inflatable TARDIS
So you can pretend that it means the Doctor has finally come to get you and you’re on the very cusp of embarking on a lifetime of adventure in space and time, at least until he abandons you for having the poor taste to age faster than he does.
Smashed (trailer)
I’m hearing some low-level buzz starting, that Mary Elizabeth Winstead’s performance here is awards-lovable…
question of the day: What are the best death scenes ever?
I’m going with the shower scene in Psycho, which represents an elegance in the depiction of something horrific that no other filmmaker has come close to replicating.
London photo of the day: you want ventilation with that?
A restaurant built into piled-up shipping containers on Southbank.
Torchwood is real, maybe (probably not) (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Midnight’s Children (London Film Festival review)
Elegant looking and well intentioned, but epically bloated and choking on its own would-be grand metaphor…
