watch: “Lego Black Ops”
I can’t tell if this is a parody or an homage. A little of both, perhaps…
trailer break: ‘Dirk Gently’
Anyone catch this? Any good? Not sure I’d have gone with Stephen Mangan for Gently, but they don’t ask me these things.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: make your own TARDIS birdfeeder
It’s easy! Just go pour all the milk out of that half-gallon carton in the fridge and get started. The Blue Peter Web site has full instructions…
who is Ebert protege Ignatiy Vishnevetsky?; Hollywood hates Netflix; the FCC delivers smackdowns to broadcasting’s old guard; more: leftover links
Plus: celebs run afoul of Twitter; is True Grit going to the Oscars?; Hurley’s lotto numbers come up (almost); more…
Saturday cute: old-fashioned joystick for your newfangled iPad
This could make Ms Pac-Man even more of a flashback to a seventh-grade Saturday night at the roller rink than it already is…
question of the weekend: What one possession do you treasure above all else?
Imagine that all the usual important stuff — your children, your pets, family photos, important papers, and the like — is accounted for. That leaves you to pick the one thing you love selfishly just for itself…
Friday night fortune cookie: Lloyd Dobler says…
“If you start out depressed everything’s kind of a pleasant surprise.”
what am I keeping? my good china
One of the things that I absolutely could not bear to part with is the set of china I bought years ago: I hardly ever used it, but somehow it feels like it defines me, or at least a part of me…
Country Strong (review)
There’s solid workmanship and an authentic emotional muscle in this movie. I was startled to find myself overwhelmed, eventually, by its ragged charms and its rough-edged vision of female power and pain.
2011’s films ranked
I rank 2011’s new theatrical releases on the fly…
