Sex and the City: The Movie (review)

I felt like some sort of alien anthropologist watching this movie, as if I were being presented with the strangest and most inexplicable creatures imaginable, and was being asked, out of all reason, to understand them.

screencap Friday: what the flick? #22

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. Last week’s was so tough that no one guessed it, so I’ll give you a little clue here. … more…

The Strangers (review)

Just what the world needs: a 1970s throwback horror movie combining the kind of outrageous elements of that decade’s scary stories with all the real-life fake nightmares of the 2000s.

geek wish list: Neil Gaiman writes ‘Doctor Who’

I’ve been fantasizing for quite a while about what a Neil Gaiman-penned episode of Doctor Who would look like, and I may actually find out. Though everyone is being circumspect about it. From Comic Book Resources: [S]ome people see Steven as transforming Doctor Who into something very different. That’s not true, Steven has been a … more…

James McAvoy as Bilbo Baggins?

Apparently it’s almost a done deal: Scottish actor James McAvoy has been tipped to take the lead role in the new movie version of Lord Of The Rings prequel The Hobbit…. Sir Ian McKellen will reprise his role as Gandalf and McAvoy is rumoured to be the favourite to take the lead role of hobbit … more…

no life on Mars, but there are movies

That little Phoenix thing that just landed on the Red Planet? It took along its own in-flight entertainment: The disc – being described as the first interplanetary library – is made of a special silica glass designed to last hundred, if not thousands, of years into the future. It… holds a collection of Mars-themed artwork, … more…

Britain’s oldest married couple are movie fans

Sweet: Frank, 100, and Anita, 99, today celebrate their 80th wedding anniversary, equalling the record for England’s longest-ever marriage…. The pair met in 1926 at a YMCA dance in their home town of Plymouth. They married two years later, on May 26, 1928, and after the register office ceremony popped to the cinema to catch … more…