to give or to keep: ‘Star Wars’ cookie and pancake molds
Kitchen outfitter Williams-Sonoma has gone totally geeky this year with its news line of Star Wars cooking gadgets…
trailer break: ‘Chatroom’
It’s Facebook: The Faux J-Horror Teen Thriller! Don’t go on the Net alone!
Chatroom opens in the U.K. on December 22; no U.S. or Canadian release date has been announced.
question of the day: If you were filthy rich, how would financially support the arts?
I’d start a foundation to support education in arts appreciation from elementary school onward, so that even little kids begin to learn why the arts are vital to our culture, and how to interpret and understand all kinds of art. And I’d be a patron of artists with promise, from filmmakers and writers to musicians and painters. I’d be such a generous millionaire, if only I had the opportunity…
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (review)
More like Voyage of the Yawn Treader, actually. Little kids will surely find this collection of fantastical geegaws enthralling — look, a talking mouse! hey, a minotaur! — but as a grownup fan of the magical and the mysterious, I was almost totally bored by this third, and perhaps most tryingly pious, installment in C.S. Lewis’s fanciful spin on Christian mythology.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: four decades of police box modifications
Well, not modifications of actual police boxes, but modifications of the police-box props that have played the TARDIS. Complete with way more information than anybody else but us would ever need about the TARDIS props…
to give or to keep: ‘The World at War’ on blu-ray
Students of history and World War II buffs will love this new blu-ray edition of the classic 1970s ITV documentary that looked back at the war in obsessive detail…
what he said: Pentagon Papers’ Daniel Ellsberg…
…in a press release about Wikileaks and Julian Assange, rejecting the mantra “Pentagon Papers good; WikiLeaks material bad”…
trailer break: ‘The Mechanic’
Oo oo oo, Tony Goldwyn is in this. That will make enduring the thuggishness that is Jason Statham slightly more tolerable.
question of the day: What entertainment “crime” would you pardon?
Pop culture is littered with offensive crimes against decency: “Achy Breaky Heart” by Billy Ray Cyrus. The oeuvre of Dane Cook. Rob Lowe singing and dancing with Snow White at the Oscars. Cop Rock. Gigli. Are any of them forgiveable?
watch it: 1980s “Coffee Achievers” ads
It’s shocking how propagandistic this looks today…
