watch it: 1950s/1960s Bounty paper towel commercial
Imagine, if you can, a time when paper towels did not exist, and had to be invented, and then sold to harried housewives with misbehaving dogs and children…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor from lawful good to chaotic evil
Someone has thought a lot about how the Doctor’s alignment varies from persona to persona. Yes, one of them is chaotic evil…
The Next Three Days (review)
How do you manage child care while doing all the footwork required to plan your wife’s prison break? It sounds ridiculous, and it should be ridiculous up on the screen. But Russell Crowe makes it work in ways that far exceed any expectations we should honestly have for such a preposterous potboiler of a concept.
trailer break: ‘Somewhere’
Bored rich guy is bored with his privileged life… until a little girl makes it all better. Hoorah!
question of the day: What is the point of ‘People’s Sexiest Man Alive designation?
Nothing against Ryan Reynolds, but can any one man be the Sexiest Man Alive? And if this can be, wouldn’t the editors of People have to at least meet all three billion or so men on the planet before coming to a conclusion that genuinely reflects all men alive?
watch it: “Mad Men: Don Draper Says ‘What?’”
This just gets funnier the longer it goes on. And it helps satisfy my Mad Men cravings, at least a little, while the show is on hiatus…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: knit your own scarf… just like the Doctor’s
Did you know that there is a one-stop online source for all your Doctor Who scarf needs, from the origins and history of the scarf to patterns for all the varieties Tom Baker wore as the Doctor? Such a site was inevitable, really…
trailer break: ‘The Company Men’
Here’s the new American dream, right here in a cheery-gloomy movie just in time for the holidays that no one will be able to celebrate this year, except maybe in a Tiny Tim sort of way.
question of the day: Has Hollywood made us so jaded that we no longer “give movies a chance,” and is that a bad thing?
It sounds like Hall is saying, however, that we should all have run out opening weekend to see Skyline — or any movie we suspect will be garbage — because we owe something to Hollywood! Which is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever heard.
wtf: “Publicist shot to death after walking ‘Burlesque’ red carpet”
I would make a joke… except I can’t. Seriously: what the fuck?
