‘Doctor Who’ not-blogging: “Turn Left”

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When I dream about traveling with the Doctor, this is what I dream about: alien marketplaces. (And if it’s an alien marketplace where it looks like you might run into Captain Mal Reynolds, so much the better.) When I have nightmares about traveling with the Doctor, well… they’re never as horrific as the events of … more…

‘The Two Coreys’ is a joke, right?

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I’d vaguely heard about A&E’s “reality” series The Two Coreys last year, and if I thought about it at all, it was to be reminded of a bit from an old episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer brings home some teen magazines for a bedridden and bored Lisa, and he’s obviously been unable to … more…

The Love Guru (review)

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It’s not enough, these days, if you want to make a stupid, crass, juvenile movie, to merely be stupid, crass, and juvenile: Everyone’s doing that, and a filmmaker makes to distinguish himself, right? So here we have the next step — actually several giant next steps — in taking movies to levels so new and so base that they stand apart…

Mike Myers on “unacceptable scripts”

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I’m gonna have my review of The Love Guru for you shortly [it’s here now], but while I finish up figuring out how best to excoriate one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen, I’d like you ponder this truth about Mike Myers, which Entertainment Weekly reported in 2000: Universal is suing Mike Myers for … more…

bias update

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obsession: still Doctor Who (most recent episode blogging: “The Unicorn and the Wasp”) boyfriend: David Tennant as the Doctor (I’m starting a whole summer of Tennant and Hamlet) psyched: Wall-E (Pixar pretty much rules) dreading: Meet Dave (the trailer makes me cringe) enemy: Mike Myers in The Love Guru, because no one over the age … more…