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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a DVD… and just to make things harder for 2010, this one is from a TV show which may or may not be in my collection (it’s sooo much easier to do screengrabs now that Netflix is streaming to my computer). Guess the TV show — you don’t … more…
I hadn’t even heard of Battle: Los Angeles, scheduled for release in March 2011, till this morning, but now I can’t stop salivating at the thought of it. It’s not because of director Jonathan Liebesman, whose track record — The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning, Darkness Falls — does not inspire. Nor is it because … more…
Oh, America. Keep your little girls away from *Ramona and Beezus.* For your little girls might get ideas into their heads. You know, dangerous ideas about using their imaginations. And about not giving in to bullies or the pressure to be predictable and conventional. And about the value and fun of being their own funky, original selves.
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I saw this film a few weeks ago and I’m still trying to figure out whether I like it or not. That’s a good thing: I like being confounded like that. Review soon, I hope… Valhalla Rising is now playing in limited release in the U.S., and … more…
In my day, the great debate was “Star Wars or Star Trek”? Today it appears to be “Harry Potter or Twilight”? (Openminded and ecumenical fans have always known that there was no need to choose, that there is always plenty of passion to spread around.) The half-not-kidding jokes about Your Favorite TV Show or Movie … more…
Perhaps the most classic of classic ads:
I don’t have a real sense of how many serious Mad Men fans there are here. If I posted some reactions to Mad Men on an episode-by-episode basis, is this something a bunch of people here would be interested in? Is there a cadre of readers here who would like to discuss Mad Men after … more…
This is a month old, but still worth getting to. In mid June, Stephen Fry delivered an address on the state of British television at a BAFTA event; the full text of Fry’s address is here, and it is a fascinating read. In it, he reminisces about the TV of his childhood — “When I … more…
Outright lies are a valuable part of our national discourse.
Guardian, you had me at your headline: Sherlock Holmes is back… sending texts and using nicotine patches I had a similar idea years ago — I wanted to put Sherlock Holmes in New York’s East Village in the early 1990s, with bike messengers as the Baker Street Irregulars and faxes instead of telegrams — and … more…
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