Rubber (review)
A tire develops sentience. And independent mobility. Be afraid. Because it can also kill you with its mind. Yes, it has a mind. And it enjoys killing you with its mind. Be also amused, in a deeply weird, weirdly deep sort of way…
trailer break: ‘The Conspirator’
A national tragedy? Military tribunals for those accused of civilian crimes? Throwing away the Constutition when it’s convenient? Is this 1865 or 2001?
question of the day: Has there ever been — and can there ever be — a positive depiction in movies or on TV of an accountant or tax auditor?
To most Americans, “April 15” has a ring of terror to it. So is it any wonder that in American movies and TV it’s almost impossible to find positive depictions of people who deal with high finance, or — heaven forfend — of an IRS auditor…
because when you shine a line on cockroaches, they scurry back to their dark corners (possibly NSFW)
Must to share a truly enlightening email exchange I had today that was ostensibly about my review of Your Highness, but was really about so much more…
journalmalism has its price: young Americans now think torture is okay (but only when Americans do it)
A new study by the Red Cross on American attitudes toward torture is highly revealing, hugely terrifying, and very, very depressing…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: on the Doctor’s love of gingers
Donna. Mel. Amy. Turlough. What’s with all the redheads on the TARDIS? Greig Byrne at the Doctor Who zine Kasterborous thinks he knows why the Doctor appears to favor companions of the ginger persuasion…
‘Game of Thrones’’ George R.R. Martin’s fans have turned on him…
I knew the Internet could turn some people vicious — it’s oh-so easy for some people to lob vitriol from behind a computer screen and forget that there’s a real person at the other end of it — but this is insane…
trailer break: ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’
He did it! James Franco finally did it! Damn him all to hell!
watch it: 1980s Pillsbury microwave cake commercial
Had to swap out the video that was supposed to be here because YouTube pulled it. Now, enjoy some terrible microwave cake, instead.
‘The Hobbit’ really is happening, finally
Seeing Jackson’s love and enthusiasm for the project in his first video blog, it’s hard to imagine that the film was ever going to happen without him as director…
