Changeling (review)
This I will concede: I finally get what the big deal is about Angelina Jolie.
not Rose Tyler! no!
UPDATE: Oh, crap. How was it so sweet when proper-Sam ended up handcuffed to his bed, and just gross and icky when not-proper-Sam did? I know I said I wasn’t gonna write about Life on Mars, but I’ve got it on here in the background while I’m working, and bad enough that they’re continuing to … more…
dream cast: hypothetical ‘MacGyver’ movie
It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: MacGyver, the 1985-1992 ABC adventure series that made a virtue out of nonviolence and the hero’s intelligence and scientific bent. Plus, Richard Dean Anderson was cute as hell. (If you have a suggestion for an … more…
watch it: “The Theft of 2008”
Greg Palast is an American journalist who had to go to England to do his job. Now he works for that wacko pinko commie outfit known as the BBC. This 14-minute report appeared on BBC Newsnight — it’s the equivalent of your local nightly news, but you try looking for something of this depth on … more…
trailer break: ‘Frost/Nixon’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Frost/Nixon started out as a stage play, which I saw on Broadway last year, just as news of its move to film was being announced. I was there mostly to see Michael Sheen, as British TV interviewer David Frost, and partly to see what playwright Peter … more…
‘Pushing Daisies’ blogging: “Dim Sum, Lose Some”
(previous: Episode 4: “Frescorts”) Do you smell pork buns? I smell pork buns. Mmmmm, pork buns… [spoilers after the jump!] I want dim sum. If I can’t live at the Pie Hole — and I would so live at the Pie Hole if I could — I could live at the dim sum restaurant under … more…
David Tennant is leaving ‘Doctor Who’
It’s official. He made the announcement during the National Television Awards in Britain (you can watch the video of that announcement at the BBC), and then he talked about it some more here. Tennant will appear in the four specials to air in 2009 — plus, of course, the Christmas special only two months away … more…
U.K. box office: all-American ‘High School Musical 3’ wows the Brits, too
The British box office looked a helluva lot like the North American one this weekend, with singing teens and psycho killers raking in the dough: 1. High School Musical 3: Senior Year: £8.4 million (NEW) 2. Saw V: £2.4 million (NEW) 3. Burn After Reading: £1.4 million (2nd week; drops 30%) 4. Ghost Town: £1.3 … more…
Eagle Eye (review)
It could be called *Why the PATRIOT Act and Total Information Awareness Is Bad… For Dummies.*
Obama versus ‘Pushing Daisies’ tonight?
Thank god for DVR. I’ll watch Obama and record Pushing Daisies, for later blogging. I have to wonder, though, why ABC held out for so long on agreeing to air Obama’s half-hour whatever-it’s-gonna-be that the Obama campaign said “No, thanks, we’re good.” And of course I worry that if everyone in the whole damn country … more…
