Doctor Who thing of the day: “Vastra Investigates” (another Christmas prequel minisode)
Tweaking demure Victorian propriety! Cheeky!
Month: December 2012
To the Wonder (trailer)
Oh, goody. Terrence Malick has another film about running in fields at the golden hour.
question of the day: Is our storytelling culture tyrannized by the “happy ending”?
Audience once embraced tragedy as readily as the happy ending. So what happened? How and why did this change?
London photo of the day: antlers of light
Shed, perhaps, by a lightheaded deer. (Over Regent Street.)
beer here! Game of Thrones beer here! (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Django Unchained (review)
Quentin Tarantino spins a dark fantasia of the pre-Civil War South that is hilarious, ferocious, shocking, and wise, sometimes all at once.
Les Misérables (review)
There’s an alchemy here that brings together the best of screen and the best of stage…
Doctor Who thing of the day: this TARDIS is colder on the inside
Get this TARDIS mini fridge to go with yesterday’s TARDIS booze cabinet and be the dorkiest drunk on your street…
Promised Land (trailer)
You will want to see this…
question of the day: What do you think Hollywood movies tell the rest of the world about America?
I don’t mean just in relation to violence but in all aspects. Idiotic romantic comedies. Alien invasion movies. Everything Adam Sandler. What do such movies say, if anything?
