question of the day: What would be the best Christmas present Hollywood could give movie fans?
My request: An across-the-board, industrywide contractual obligation that if a movie isn’t awesome, it doesn’t get released.
watch it: The Assassination of Yogi Bear by the Coward Boo Boo
There’s more genuine emotion in Yogi’s and Boo Boo’s faces here, in this three-minute parody, than I imagine is in all of the actual film, which I have excused myself from seeing in order to save my sanity.
Roger Ebert’s new show needs a second host; studio hopes Netflix is fading; does the U.K. need a Fox news?; more: leftover links
Plus, tons more on Wikileaks, including Julian Assange’s manifesto…
to give or to keep: Gamera DVDs
You remember Gamera — you saw him once in a while on MST3K. He’s the cheap knockoff Godzilla, a giant nukular mutantized prehistoric turtle who started out, in the early 1960s, as a monster who destroys cities but rapidly morphed into a defender of Japan and a friend to children.
retro trailer: ‘Victor Victoria’
RIP Blake Edwards (1922–2010).
Saturday cute: Han Solo cross-stitch
There is, after all, that tradition of cross-stitch being used to put forth inspirational religious aphorisms. I approve of this perversion of that.
question of the weekend: Snow: Love it? Hate it? Wish there was more or less of it where you live?
Christmastime is typically associated with snow, but it isn’t always in the forecast in many places that celebrate the holiday…
Friday night fortune cookie: “Bad Santa” Willie says…
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other. See which one fills up first.”
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: “The Mazes of Time” game now out for iPad and iPhone
The graphics are fun, the music is great, and there’s even lots of silly dialogue between the running away from Cybermen and Daleks…
How Do You Know (review)
I’d really like to give writer-director James L. Brooks the benefit of the doubt here, because I think — as I usually don’t about asinine romantic comedies — that he means well. He simply doesn’t seem to realize that pathologically messed up characters are neither cute nor charming.
