Escape Plan trailer: the Escapables?
This is what The Expendables hath wrought. Now we’ve got 70-year-old guys thinking they’re plausible as the toughest alpha-male badasses among the worst guys on the planet.
London photo of the day: making do on the chessboard
Somebody made an escape and is off seeing the sights.
Camp 14: Total Control Zone review: George Orwell was an optimist
The only person known to have escaped from a North Korean re-education camp reveals some 1984-level shit, except it’s worse, because it’s not fiction…
Doctor Who thing: life-size Lego Dalek
Or should that be “death-size”?
Romeo and Juliet trailer: not another teen romance
These kids today, with their blood feuds and their dueling and their all-night masquerade balls.
London photo of the day: unLike the new Southbank skate space
Skaters respond to an announcement of what the new skatespace could look like.
Doctor Who thing: the TARDIS at Universal Orlando’s Halloween Horror Nights (Part 2)
Confirmation, and a photo!
Philomena trailer: give Judi Dench back her son!
Steve Coogan, Judi Dench, Stephen Frears. So much goodness in yet another story about the inhuman awfulness of the Catholic Church. Hooray, I guess.
London photo of the day: big blue cock
No, it’s not Avatar porn. It’s the large art chicken gazing out over Trafalgar Square.
Blue Caprice (aka The Washington Snipers) review
Thoughtful performances and grim visual elegance aren’t enough to save this portrait of abuse and control twisted into banal evil from becoming too banal to have much bite.
