watch it: “Here’s Looking At You”
A fascinating exploration of “first impressions”: via Current (Technorati tags: Here’s Looking at You)
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Idiot’s Lantern”
So I started by Googling the phrase “idiot’s lantern” because it’s *such* a perfect euphemism for television, even better than “boob tube,” but I’d never heard it before, and I wondered whether scriptwriter Mark Gatiss invented it.
movie-ku #110
If they stopped making Films today I’d still never Catch up with them all
opening wide this week: ‘One Missed Call’
One Missed Call Poor saps predestined for horrible ends get phone calls on their cells alerting them to their upcoming gruesome deaths. Cruelest irony: the calls don’t come on free nights and weekends. (not screened for critics, and I’m giving it a pass until DVD… and maybe even then, too)
Grace Is Gone (review)
There are enough tender and nicely realized touches in this family drama to make you wish the overall effect was more, well, affecting.
watch it: “Spreading Atheism”
From CBC News (that’s Canadian Broadcasting Corporation): This is Part 1. Watch Part 2 and Part 3. via Tennessee Guerilla Women (Technorati tags: Spreading Atheism)
screencap Friday: what the flick? #1
It’s some new Friday fun, stolen whole cloth from my former Cinemarati compadre Dan Jardine. 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.
maybe the winter movie wasteland won’t be so bad after all…
When I look out over the next few months, I see a vast wasteland of stupid comedies, unscary horror movies, and insipid dramas: the studios know this is a fallow time, with the kids back at school and grownups nesting in the winter cold, and, as usual, they’re saving the good stuff for later in … more…
movie-ku #109
Every SF flick Makes me hope the aliens Will get here real soon
watch it: “GUIDOLON The Giant Space Chicken DIRECTOR’S CUT Animation”
Nuttiness from Frank Wu, Hugo Award-winning artist and a hoot and a half at parties at science fiction conventions. (Technorati tags: GUIDOLON The Giant Space Chicken, Frank Wu)
