‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Time Crash, the T-shirt
Available for purchase at Woot. (Thanks to reader David for the heads-up. If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
deep thought (re celebrity weddings)
I do not care which celebrity married which other celebrity this past weekend in a glamorous but low-key ceremony in an elegant and exotic spot favored by the jet-set.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (review)
I debated with myself for quite a while: Should I endure *The Human Centipede (First Sequence)*? I knew I wouldn’t be able to unwatch it afterward…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘How to Give an Angel Card Reading’
There’s no description at Amazon of what this DVD offers. I guess if it’s meant for you, you’d already know what “angel cards” are, or what can be read into them or out of them. I suppose that tarot cards are evil, and angel cards are an acceptable alternative. But when I Googled Doreen Virtue … more…
trailer break: ‘Charlie St. Cloud’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Dammit, why does this trailer have to spoil the entire movie… or look like it does? Maybe it doesn’t: maybe there’s a big twist coming along that isn’t really hinted at here. (Maybe Zac died in that drunk-driver accident too! And now he’s a ghost wandering his … more…
what she said: io9’s Charlie Jane Anders…
…on what to call an overload of CGI (in commenting on Predators) It’s a minor miracle to see an action movie in which the action feels organic, and it’s not just a flatulence of CG. (By the way, that’s officially the plural term for a lot of CG, or several CG effects in one place … more…
question of the day: What if Christopher Nolan took over the James Bond franchise?
I haven’t seen Inception yet — I’ll see it tonight — but I’m even more intrigued to hear writer-director Christopher Nolan say this about the film (to BBC News): The Bond influence on the film was very intentional because, for me, growing up with the Bond films – they’ve always stood for grand-scale action… for … more…
watch it: “The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time” (so NSFW)
Alison Nastasi at Cinematical, where I found this, says that Harry Hanrahan has here gathered “some of cinema’s funniest and most profane put-downs.” So, if these are the greatest insults in movie history — and perhaps they are; perhaps they are — it’s distressing to see how many of them are gendered. How is a … more…
The Greatest (review)
First-time writer-director Shana Feste has made a wise, insightful movie about family, grief, and how awful and how wonderful it is to discover that life goes on after someone you love dies.
deep thought (re Mel Gibson)
I am profoundly unsurprised to find that the man who directed The Jesus Chainsaw Massacre is a racist and a misogynist.
