the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘America’s Cutest Dog’
This is wrong on so many levels I barely know where to begin. I’ll try to contain my rage as I count the ways…
trailer break: ‘Something Borrowed’
I know the movie is going to fully expect me to find its shittery charming and funny and wise and heartwarming. *grrr*
question of the day: Are there too many crime dramas on TV?
The BBC’s highly rated crime drama Zen, which starred Rufus Sewell as a cop in Italy, was recently cancelled… because the BBC doesn’t want to get overloaded with crime dramas… or with shows focusing on male protagonists. Wow…
Alex Pettyfer slams Hollywood; big ‘Harry Potter’ spoiler in trailer; Hollywood gender gap still gapping; more: leftover links
Plus: Atlas Shrugged producer gives up on sequels, unless he hasn’t…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Day of the Moon”
I’m really coming to hate Steven Moffat — and by “hate” I mean love, of course — for being such a sneakier, teasinger bastard with each passing week. I want to say that this episode opens up more questions than it answers… except that I’m not sure it answers any questions at all!
William & Kate (review)
If you’re gonna do a WB-esque royal-wedding cash-in movie, you have to give it a fair shot. Where is the dream sequence? I fully expected to see Kate go all Buffy on some shuffling hoards of zombie paparazzi. But it’s nowhere to be found in William & Kate. How mysterious.
who should be the voice of Neil Gaiman’s ‘American Gods’?
HarperCollins is putting together a new audiobook edition of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods to celebrate its upcoming tenth anniversary, and one of the speaking roles will go to the winner of a contest now in progress…
Saturday cute: Team Darcy
Brooding is so 19th century…
what he said: Chris Hedges of Truthdig…
…about the end of a free and vigorous press…
question of the weekend: Was it a good idea to pull the plug on SETI?
You know how you always miss that call you were waiting for? Now the whole world will, too.
