watch it: “Daniel Radcliffe sings ‘The Elements’”
Just the fact that Daniel Radcliffe knows who Tom Lehrer is makes me kinda wanna smush him and do nasty things to him that he’d love.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Dalek spotted on Santa Monica Boulevard…
…ahead of Matt Smith’s appearance tonight on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Clearly Ferguson is deeply geeked. 12:30am Eastern on CBS.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Barbie As Rapunzel’
This is actually an old DVD — dating back 2002 — that’s gotten a very minor redesign (of the packaging, that is) and is back as a “new release”… just in time to cash in on what is sure to be a Rapunzel craze with Disney’s Tangled about to open.
trailer break: ‘The Warrior’s Way’
This looks so terrible that it might cross over into the accidentally genius.
question of the day: What’s the best — or worst — nonactor celebrity cameo you can think of?
Bill Clinton just shot a cameo for The Hangover 2 in Bangkok in — I’m guessing here — a scene in which a joke about what does or does not constitute sex will occur in the presence of an underage prostitute who may or may not be female. Can anything top this?
I am going to London
Whether or not I win that British Airways contest — you can continue to vote once per day for me through the end of this week — I am going to London… and I don’t know when or even if I’m coming back…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: John Simm voted Saxon
Wherein John Simm proves he’s cooler than all of us via his wardrobe choices. Not to mention his choice of acting roles…
watch it: Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart have a civilized discussion about journalism
If TV can look like this as a rarity, surely it can look like this more often.
Skyline (review)
This isn’t a movie: it’s an FX demo reel. It’s not about anything: it doesn’t reflect any contemporary fears that afflict individual people or anxieties that grip our entire culture. It has nothing to say beyond: “Don’t alien ships in the skies over Los Angeles look sorta interesting, and perhaps you would like to hire us to create the FX for your next sci-fi action film?”
trailer break: ‘Heartless’
I can’t tell from this trailer what the film is about, but I can tell that it looks pretty creepy and gruesome, and that it’s got a great cast (I especially love Jim Sturgess). So I guess I’m in…
