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Month: April 2013

looks like Neil Blomkamp made that Halo movie after all (Elysium trailer)

Wed, Apr 10, 2013
6 comments

Love of Blomkamp flips around a movie image that’s almost religiously iconic…

| 6 Comments

Scottish Borders photo of the day: Smailholm Tower

Wed, Apr 10, 2013
1 comment

It sounds like something out of Tolkien, and it looks like the last lonely outpost on Mars.

| 1 Comment

Doctor Who blogging: “The Rings of Akhaten”

Wed, Apr 10, 2013
40 comments

I’m so relieved to discover that I really like this episode.

| 40 Comments

please can Derek Cianfrance not get sucked up by the Hollywood machine (The Place Beyond the Pines review)

Tue, Apr 09, 2013
12 comments

My heart is so heavy after this film. So heavy with this film.

| 12 Comments

Doctor Who thing: meet the Doctor’s granddaughter who never was

Tue, Apr 09, 2013
14 comments

Carole Ann Ford talks to The Telegraph about how Susan was originally intended to be quite different than she ended up onscreen, and much more.

| 14 Comments

why guys should avoid sex tourism in Chile (Aftershock trailer)

Tue, Apr 09, 2013
8 comments

Because you’ll probably find yourself in the middle of an earthquake apocalypse. Cuz that happens.

| 8 Comments

Scottish Borders photo of the day: mysterious statue

Mon, Apr 08, 2013
2 comments

I was totally captivated by this work of art — of a woman, nearly life-size, enshrouded — in the village of St. Boswell’s…

| 2 Comments

completely fried my brain today…

Mon, Apr 08, 2013
1 comment

…on a screening of The Place Beyond the Pines and subsequent writing of a review…

| 1 Comment

HBO isn’t dying, so they think they’re winning (on the rampant pirating of Game of Thrones)

Mon, Apr 08, 2013
13 comments

I can’t help but recall that thing that Upton Sinclair said about people not understanding something when their salaries depend on their not understanding it…

| 13 Comments

Doctor Who thing: read Summer Falls by Amelia Williams

Mon, Apr 08, 2013
6 comments

“Chapter 11 is the best. You’ll cry your eyes out!” –Clara Oswald

| 6 Comments
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