‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Daleks”
Submitted by many readers. Thank you. You will be spared extermination. (If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
male gaze alert: ‘Toy Story 3’ short “Day and Night”
Anyone who’s seen Toy Story 3 knows that it opens — as Pixar films typically do — with a delightful animated short film. This one is called “Day and Night,” and it’s a personification of, unsurprisingly, “day” and “night” as vaguely human-shaped blobs moving about the natural world. Day, for instance, wakes up in the … more…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #129
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…
omg: maybe Peter Jackson will direct ‘The Hobbit’ after all?
Mike Fleming at Deadline is reporting that maybe this geek-dream-come-true is so: EXCLUSIVE: In what amounts to a dream come true for fans of Middle Earth, Peter Jackson has decided to direct two installments of The Hobbit, trusted sources are telling me. His deal is being negotiated right now with Warner Bros , New Line … more…
trailer break: ‘The Kids Are All Right’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Great trailer, great cast, great film. Now, if only it had some Transformers or some toys in it, it could be a huge hit. The Kids Are All Right opens in limited release in the U.S. on July 9; no Canadian or U.K. release dates have been … more…
question of the day: Why do we like bad movies?
It seems like it’s been bad-movies news all week, what with Syfy’s two big announcements: DIY bad Saturday Night Syfy Original and Tiffany vs. Debbie Gibson. And then I came across an article by Leor Galil at New City Film about the apparent “sudden resurgence” of bad movies, particularly as a midnight-movie phenomenon: Alongside “The … more…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Knight and Day,’ ‘Grown Up,’ ‘Get Him to the Greek,’ ‘When in Rome,’ more
U.S. AND CANADA/OPENING WIDE Knight and Day: Tom Cruise does some spy stuff and runs around a lot, while Cameron Diaz does a lot of screaming and runs around like a girl. If you can’t make it to the multiplex, try: • The 39 Steps (1935): Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll are mismatched maybe-spies in … more…
watch it: 1970s MushMouth commercial
Yes, this is fake, from Canadian comedy troupe The Imponderables.
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‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Steven Moffat is a teasy bastard
Doctor Who honcho and god-in-charge Steven Moffat talks to Digital Spy, wherein he is mean and horrible and tries to make us all feel really really bad about the Doctor and life and the universe and everything. Choice excerpts (which may include spoilers for those not caught up to “The Pandorica Opens”): Episode twelve ended … more…
