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Year: 2012

question of the day: Is IMAX going to save Hollywood?

Fri, Mar 23, 2012
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It’s true that IMAX can offer an experience that you can’t get at home. But it has to be an experience than you want to have. If the movies are crappy, IMAX won’t make much of a difference…

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London photo of the day: the secret garden

Fri, Mar 23, 2012
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In the British sense of garden, for which Americans would use yard…

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your David Tennant-as-a-pirate photo of the day (and other adventures in social networking)

Fri, Mar 23, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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retro ad: early 1990s cola-wars commercial

Thu, Mar 22, 2012
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Interestingly, you cannot tell which soda this ad is ostensibly promoting until the very end.

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Doctor Who thing of the day: TARDIS and Dalek earrings (and other jangly goodies)

Thu, Mar 22, 2012
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I just ordered the TARDIS ones for myself…

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (trailer)

Thu, Mar 22, 2012
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So, breastfeeding makes for weird children and dads are hopeless at taking care of their own kids. God help us.

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question of the day: Who or what is your “wrong crush”?

Thu, Mar 22, 2012
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And don’t worry: your secret is safe with us…

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London photo of the day: not your ordinary front yard

Thu, Mar 22, 2012
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When my mother told us kids to go play outside, we did not have a fountain to splash in…

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the real moral of Star Wars (and other adventures in social networking)

Thu, Mar 22, 2012
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What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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The Hunger Games (review)

Wed, Mar 21, 2012
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Every once in a while, just as I’m about to succumb to Hollywood-stoked despair and ennui, a movie like The Hunger Games comes along to rescue me…

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