trailer break: ‘Jumping the Broom’
Chock full of many excellent reasons not to see this movie…
question of the day: What’s your favorite non-English-language film?
Do you have different criteria for judging foreign-language films than you do for English-language films?
London partying on royal wedding day (Part 2)
More scenes from the city of London on the day of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton…
London partying on royal wedding day (Part 1)
A curated selection of the things I saw upon the occasion of the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton…
no, London is not this boring…
But of course, the idea that London is boring is part of the joke…
great movie quotes: ‘Water for Elephants’
“Don’t even mention Ringling Brothers. He hates those bastards worse than the Depression.” –Camel (Jim Norton) to Jacob (Robert Pattinson) about August (Christoph Waltz)
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: figuring out what the heck is going on with River Song
AndorianBlues on Reddit offers a chart that begins to attempt to impose some structure on the Doctor’s and River’s respective timelines…
Water for Elephants (review)
As cornball goes, there’s nothing cornier than running away to join the circus. And that’s why Water for Elephants works so beautifully: It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than an old-fashioned melodrama yarn-spun for as much emotion and tragedy and romance as possible.
trailer break: ‘Green Lantern’
I dunno… there’s an awful lot of CGI in this trailer. Is the whole movie going to be one big cartoon?
question of the day: What films have you lied about seeing?
As with many other lies of all kinds, it’s often easy to get caught in a lie… but is it easier to pretend you’ve seen a movie you haven’t seen when the content of such a movie has been discussed so frequently that it’s easy to fake it?
