Reality review: television becomes us
Italian satire amusingly sends up our obsession with reality TV, but not in a wholly satisfying way.
Month: July 2013
Doctor Who thing: one-off characters who should have been companions
One of the many pleasures of Doctor Who is the chance to meet, if only fictionally, an array of fascinating people — some of them not even human, and some of them you wish you could spend more time with…
2 Guns trailer: oops my partner in crime is a fed… and so am I
Can Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington work together without driving each other crazy, or shooting each other in the head? *cue Odd Couple theme*
London photo of the day: “You lost the cakes *and* your shoes?!”
I really would love to know the story behind this little tableau, on a curbside in Fitzrovia.
Breathe In review: every man’s fantasy — blech
Dear Penthouse Forum: I am an ordinary high school teacher, happily married. I never thought anything like this would happen when we hosted a beautiful, brilliant British foreign exchange student…
me on BBC Radio 4 talking about Zack Snyder’s Superman + Batman movie
If you weren’t following me on Twitter and Facebook yesterday, you may have missed my last-minute notices about my appearance on BBC Radio 4 yesterday morning. But you can listen online now.
In the House (Dans la maison) review: humour noir
As a black comedy, this never quite catches fire, though there is some mild amusement to be found in its social satire.
media scholar Marty Kaplan on why journalism sucks today
I’m not sure that Kaplan says anything that anyone here doesn’t already know, but it’s worth driving home again how much what passes for journalism today sucks, and why it needs to change.
Doctor Who thing: Steven Moffat threatens fans, wants to keep a lid on 50th-anniv promos
Comic-Con audience got two trailers, but no one else can see them (yet). What could possibly be the benefit to withholding trailers like this?
Seventh Son trailer: what the…?
So apparently there is an “acclaimed series” (of what? books? comics? a TV show?) but instead of telling that good-stuff story, this movie is merely stealing some ideas from it– er, was “inspired by” it.
