one more reminder: Feedburner site feed is going away

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Bumping this up as a reminder: I’ve been doing lots of behind-the-scenes tweaking since the redesign, one of which is very important to note if you follow site updates via an RSS feed. I will soon get rid of the Feedburner feed — that’s the one at this URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/flickfilosopher/Sfpt Please update your RSS reader … more…

David Tennant in ‘Hamlet’ in London

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The Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet in which David Tennant is now starring in Stratford-upon-Avon will transfer to London for a run starting December 3, through January 10, 2009. Tickets go on sale at 10am London time tomorrow, Friday, September 12. Get ’em while you can.

dream cast: hypothetical live-action ‘ThunderCats’ movie

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It’s Thursday, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: ThunderCats, the Rankin/Bass animated series that debuted in 1985. There is a CGI-animated flick coming in 2010, but let’s think live-action update. That’s much more fun. (This one was suggested by reader Bill. If you … more…

trailer break: ‘Towelhead’

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Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… A girl’s coming-of-age plus hot-button ethnic issues plus that cast (Aaron Eckhart, Maria Bello, Toni Collette), and it’s all from Alan Ball? Excellent! I missed every damn screening of this, but I hope to catch it once it opens. Towelhead opens in limited release September 12.

dispatches from the ‘Righteous Kill’ premiere

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My first movie premiere. So glamorous. Or not, actually. But that makes me sound so jaded and blasé and cool, doesn’t it: “Oh, sure, I went to the Righteous Kill premiere last night. Yeah, it wasn’t really a big deal.” Waited a looooong time on line to pick up my tickets — way past the … more…

there’s never enough time…

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I DVRed Fringe last night, but I haven’t had a chance to watch it yet, and now I have to head out to screenings for the rest of the day. Maybe I’ll get to it late tonight. Was it any good? (Don’t spoil it for me!)

watch it: “TPMtv: Bridge of Lies”

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Because this is news you’re only gonna get from online muckrakers… such as Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo: Well, Jon Stewart might cover this too, but he’s just a late-night comic, right? (via Americablog)