London photo of the day: sidewalk cafe in the rain
In Covent Garden.
Month: May 2013
Populaire review: just your type
Ridiculously charming as it spins a deliciously retro kitsch magic. (new DVD/VOD UK)
Doctor Who thing: fans need to leave John Simm alooooooone!
Look, actors don’t owe fans anything at all beyond their work. It’s hardly ever cool to approach a celeb in public. Why would you want to annoy someone you profess to like?
The Bling Ring trailer: girls gone entitled
Oh man, there’s so much here that is screaming out to be satirized: celebrity worship, rampant consumerism, the mass drugging of children into submission…
London photo of the day: the BT through the trees
The BT Tower as seen from Tottenham Court Road.
The Purge review: good, decent, patriotic violence
Asks us to look anew — and askance — at conventions of cinematic horror while also engaging in startling satire of America’s culture of violence. (new DVD/VOD UK; also US/Can)
Doctor Who thing: the “Doctor Who is racist” story is overblown
The fact that no one has read the upcoming book Doctor Who and Race yet didn’t stop “Doctor Who is racist!” — or, the slightly less virulent “Is Doctor Who racist?” — headlines from proliferating around the Web…
This Is the End greenband trailer: because the redband spoils too much
I’ve often found myself wondering, Which celebrities would survive the Apocalypse? Now we know.
London photo of the day: mews at twilight
Colville Place, in Fitzrovia. I could live here, too.
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I think just about everything is now operating in the new WordPress site…
