Corner Gas: Season 1 (review)
Should we call Canadian passive-aggression passive-agreeableness?
deep thought
David Cameron is Harold Saxon…
trailer break: ‘Splice’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Hey, it’s David Hewlett from Stargate Atlantis. I bet, alas, that he doesn’t get much to do and ends up eaten by the creature, or comes to some other horrible end. (I miss Rodney…) “Human cloning is illegal. This won’t be human.” Right there is where you … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Billy Owens and the Secret of the Runes’
Totally not a Harry Potter ripoff: Billy Owens is back for another enchanting adventure! Along with his three fellow friends in magic, they come together to help their teacher, Thurgood, when his soul becomes trapped in an ancient amulet. Legend says that inserting the empowered amulet into a cursed scepter will unlock vast powers and … more…
question of the day: Who should Iron Man battle in ‘Iron Man 3’?
So it’s $128 million for Iron Man 2 over its first weekend in North America: that’s down more than $5 million from the Sunday estimates, but it’s still good enough to trump Iron Man’s $98 million opening two years ago. (IM2 dropped 52 percent in the U.K. over its second weekend there, but still easily … more…
new this week in U.S., Canadian, and U.K. theaters: ‘Robin Hood,’ ‘Just Wright,’ ‘Letters to Juliet,’ ‘Lebanon,’ more (with DVD alternatives)
(It will look here like I’m trying to condense a lot of stuff — my “week at the movies” posts, my “DVD alts” posts — into one package, and that isn’t quite the case. Or maybe it is. Bear with me as I try to figure out what the hell I’m doing and what the … more…
more ‘Doctor Who’ geekery
I took a tiny break from writing more of my ongoing Doctor Who fan story, “Tristan’s Father” (though the next installment is coming very soon, I promise), to write a very short story — 2,500 words — for Big Finish, the British company that does audio dramas and other cool stuff in connection with a … more…
don’t even ask what “paternal nudity” might be…
Crazy MPAA ratings are so much fun! Have you seen the warnings regarding Babies? It’s rated PG for cultural and maternal nudity throughout Trying to parse this is a blast. I suppose it means that all the naked boobs are not meant to titillate but merely to provide nourishment to all the babies, but that … more…
City Island (review)
Hilarious and witty portrait of a functional dysfunctional New York City family…
trailer break: ‘The Expendables’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Any trailer that starts with “They are the world’s greatest mercenaries…” had better turn into a parody at some point. I kept waiting for that to happen, and even as it appears to turn into a convention of washed-up action heroes — Dolph Lundgren? Dolph Lundgren is … more…
