Sparkle (trailer)
Really? Sparkle? You’d think they want to avoid anything that might remind us of Glitter…
Year: 2012
question of the day: Which movie trends need to die?
Characters walking away from explosions, unharmed? The tough female Latina marine? 3D?
London photo of the day: blue in the face
Not sure what the neighbors think of this…
Susan Sarandon has the brilliant solution to women being treated like unpersons (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Avengers Assemble (aka Marvel’s The Avengers) (review)
How many superheroes spoil the broth? More than six, apparently, at least when Joss Whedon is wrangling them.
retro ad: 1960s Coke commercial: Coke keeps you thin!
In the days before 20-ounce Cokes loaded with high-fructose corn syrup, this was probably actually true…
Doctor Who thing of the day: sophisticated TARDIS scarf
Fanist oppression leads one knitter to create a sophisticated, grown-up take on the Doctor Who scarf…
Bernie (trailer)
They tell us this is from Richard Linklater, but it looks more like the Coen Brothers to me…
question of the day: Should the IMDb be hosting official movie sites?
The IMDb is hosting the official site for The Raven. I see a potential slippery slope here…
London photo of the day: naked tube station
If ads are stripped off a public space and people are there to see it, how do we know what stuff we should be buying?
