watch it: 1980s Christmas Flinstones Fruity Pebbles commercial
What does artificially flavored and colored junk food breakfast cereal have to do with Christmas? Would cavepeople have celebrated Christmas? Inquiring minds want to know…
trailer break: ‘Battle: Los Angeles’
Oh please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please let this not suck.
Tron: Legacy (review)
This totally superfluous and eminently forgettable sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 flick Tron will make a bloody fortune, not because it embodies any qualities deserving of such, but out of compelling nostalgia and, well, not much else.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale movie review
You simply need to see this to believe that anyone would conceive of such an outlandishly demented Christmas fantasy. In playing with the creepy roots of the story of Santa, Rare Exports finds the grim awfulness in the supposedly pleasant fantasy…
Monsters movie review
“Sunny with a chance of creatures” could well be the weather report from this world, one not too far removed from our own, in one of the most startling movies of our new DIY filmmaking culture.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: look for the Black and Decker sonic screwdriver in the not-too-distant future
Doctor Who is, it seems, like Star Trek was in the 1960s: an inspiration to young scientists looking to turn science fiction into science fact.
trailer break: ‘Just Go With It’
Why? Why must we be continually subjected to Adam Sandler? Why won’t he just go away?
question of the day: Is Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg really the Person of the Year 2010?
In a busy news year with lots of major stories impacting the world — from the BP spill to Wikileaks to Afghanistan officially becoming the longest war in American history — does Time’s choice make sense?
watch it: “Roger Ebert – Archive Interview Excerpt on Film Criticism”
I agree entirely with what Ebert says about why film criticism is important and that rating are the bane of the critic.
to give or to keep: ‘The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Collection’
Nostalgic GenXers will revel in this trip down bionic memory lane. This 40-DVD, fanatically complete collection will impress even the most hardhearted geek on your list.
