Rick & Steve: The Complete First Season (review)
The attempts at humor are obvious, simplistic, and riddled with stereotypes — “dykes” hate men, gays are obsessed with physical appearance, and so on and so, tediously, on.
Bob Saget: That Ain’t Right (review)
Saget apologizes to the audience at the get-go for his nonstop vulgarity, but that won’t stop him from beating to death his one joke: that, apparently, he only recently discovered the word ‘fuck’…
Lilies (review)
Ah, this is period drama like it’s supposed to be: not stuffy or stodgy but powerful, passionate, and alive with love and sex and tenderness.
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Everything Changes”
There’s no damn way I’d wanna be watching ‘Torchwood’ edited for American squeamishness, and damn glad I have access to the British versions.
why does the PG-13-rated ‘Beowulf’ have a redband trailer?
I started off pissed, and now I’m scared. Seriously. Look: I’ve been kinda psyched for the upcoming Beowulf, opening November 16, because it’s cowritten by geek god Neil Gaiman and directed by Robert “Back to the Future” Zemeckis and because, well, it’s Beowulf, one of the greatest stories ever told and one of the wellsprings … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ ‘Lust, Caution,’ ‘Trade,’ ‘Silk,’ ‘December Boys’
There are so many movies opening this autumn, it exhausts me just thinking about it. Thirteen movies open this weekend, eight on each of the following weekends. Thirty-nine movies are opening in October. This is insane. It’s almost as if the studios are setting up at least some of these movies to fail. And it … more…
still no ‘Torchwood’ blogging today
Sorry, but reality is making unreasonable demands, and has been for days. Tomorrow, hopefully, I really should get around to it. I think someone should send Captain Jack Harkness around to investigate me. You know, just to make sure I haven’t been taken over by an alien or anything.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Family of Blood”
I’ve seen him, and he’s like fire and ice and rage. He’s like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He’s ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And… he’s wonderful.
happy birthday to me: FlickFilosopher.com is 10 years old today
Today’s the day: on September 8, 1997, I posted my first movie review on the Internet. The first post in my 10-year celebration, which I started a year ago today, has some history of the site, if you’re interested. I spent the last year migrating reviews from the old design into the blog format, which … more…
‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Torchwood’ blogging tomorrow
I’m off to an all-day wedding celebration for my friend Lori, so no blogging today. But I did want to alert you to the debut of the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood on BBC America tonight — I’ll be blogging about the show starting tomorrow, and every Sunday (or so) of its 13-episode run. I dunno … more…
