watch it: “Tory Island dog swimming with dolphin”
On a remote Irish island, the hotel dog has gone all transpecies…
Nowhere Boy (review)
Oh, we already know how it ends! John Lennon starts a band and ends up bigger than God. Before that, though… whew. There’s a whole lotta psychosexual stuff packed into Nowhere Boy, the tale of Lennon’s adolescence in Liverpool, which may or may not be true, but it sure makes for a smashing film.
Megamind (review)
I like superhero stories that play with the tropes… and if such a story can take us to new places within a genre that seems like it must be totally played out by now, even better still. It turns out that Megamind is, in fact, just that kind of movie.
watch it: 1980s California raisins commercial
Those damn singing raisins were everywhere in the 80s…
I’ve had a horrible day…
…of near coulda-been disasters — a gas leak in my building that had been ongoing for at least 12 hours, probably more like 18 or 24 — and then, after the firemen and police finally left late this morning, an Internet outage.
trailer break: ‘Four Lions’
I’m so glad I had not seen this trailer before I saw the film. Because although it does not truly capture how hilarious the movie is, there are things in it that I screamed with laughter at because they were so startling, and I wouldn’t have been as startled if I’d been primed for them by the trailer.
question of the day: What is the worst movie title ever?
I don’t think Blubberella, offensive as it is, can come close to being as awful as Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo, Gigli, Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter, or Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever.
For Colored Girls (review)
Indie filmmaker Tyler Perry has spun an unlikely career out of catering to underserved black audiences by giving them excruciatingly unwatchable minstrel-show movies. Now, finally, Perry has made a film that doesn’t pander, that has something meaningful to say — something actually worth hearing…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Matt Smith wants a talking parrot companion
From celeb gossip site Now: New Doctor Who star Matt Smith has decided the Time Lord needs a new assistant – ideally, a bird. The actor got his inspiration from a pirates sequence in the film Pink Panther starring Peter Sellers. ‘I think with this Doctor, you never know what he’s going to do or … more…
trailer break: ‘Inside Job’
I’m really starting to wonder what the point of these documentaries is. No one is being convinced of anything, no minds are being changed, and nothing gets done in response.
