trailer break: ‘The Heart Specialist’
The trailer looks like a bad parody from a particularly depressing episode of Saturday Night Live. (Ed Asner?)
watch it: “Ladybug plays with sprinkles!”
On the morning of this big party evening, a festive animal — well, insect — video for you.
is steampunk over…
…if the Christmas windows at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan have borrowed it?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Hey, what happened to the Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express?
I was browsing around some of my posts on the previous season of Doctor Who, Matt Smith’s first series, and I was suddenly reminded that we appeared to have been promised something quite different for the Christmas special…
the year in movies by and about women…
I have some stuff to say about how women were depicted onscreen this year, and how women made movies this year, over at Women and Hollywood…
question of the day: What was the most underrated or underappreciated movie of 2010?
Mine must be Agora, which my fellow critics ignored and audiences never had a chance to find…
trailer break: ‘Falling Skies’
Like 80s V, only better than the terrible ABC redo that’s about to return.
watch it: 1980s 1-800-FLOWERS New Year’s ad
One of the weirdest ads I’ve come across yet…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Steven Moffat talks ‘A Christmas Carol’
To The New York Times, no less. Frankly, I’m not sure I want The New York Times talking about Doctor Who. That’s a sure sign that it’s going mainstream and will soon be boring…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “A Christmas Carol”
Doctor Who has been doing amazing things with TV since 2005, but this may be the best example yet of how gonzo and how simultaneously emotionally satisfying TV can be these days.
