the Teachers’ Guide to Doctor Who: “The Bells of Saint John”
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Year: 2013
question of the weekend: What word or phrase would you eliminate from the English language, and why?
Perhaps there’s a word or phrase that no longer serves the purpose it once did, or some otherwise innocuous words have been twisted in shapes they shouldn’t have been…
Scottish Borders photo of the day: watch out for barbarians
Me astride Hadrian’s Wall, the Romans’ attempt to contain Scotland…
inoffensive Frankenkid; you’ve seen worse (The Odd Life of Timothy Green review)
The magic is as modest as can be, and its aim is a bit off…
Doctor Who thing: wanna be Executive Producer?
The position is open since Caroline Skinner left…
here, have a cinemagasm (The Great Gatsby trailer)
But I wonder what Fitzgerald would make of it. I bet he’d love it.
Scottish Borders photo of the day: welcome!
The snow and the rocks are features, not bugs.
you can’t stop the music… *ever* (A Late Quartet review)
All its faults are forgiven thanks to our sheer joy in getting to watch Christopher Walken, Catherine Keener, and Philip Seymour Hoffman rattle around one another…
the best tribute I can offer Roger Ebert…
…is a rerun of my What Film Critics Do meme thingy.
Stephenie Meyer has found a whole new way for teen girls to be conflicted about sex (The Host review)
Did Neo come to see that the Agents had the right way of things? Did Luke eventually realize that the Empire was a stabilizing force in the galaxy? But poor Melanie is suffering from the ultimate case of Stockholm Syndrome.
