‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: miniature levitating TARDIS
I’m all for useless desk toys, but this might be a time machine too far even for me…
watch it: “A box full of catnip!”
It’s so nice to roll around in the ’nip. No fair hogging it, though!
trailer break: ‘Welcome to the Rileys’
That’s pretty much the whole movie right there. I hate when they do that…
question of the day: What if we abolished the MPAA?
The latest fracas involving the MPAA — the board that rates films for release in the United States — concerns the indie Blue Valentine, which has received an NC-17 rating for its sexual content, which is actually fairly minimal and mostly not terribly, you know, sexy. The film does, however, feature an instance of a man pleasuring a woman orally…
Secretariat (review)
It starts out all sad music at momma’s funeral and we gots to sell the horse farm, but dang if nobody can keep Diane Lane down.
what she said: Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood…
…about how Hollywood is flummoxed by Noomi Rapace, the original girl with the dragon tattoo…
tres cool: The Female Character Flowchart
mlawski at Overthinking It has created a wise and funny visual breakdown of how poorly women are treated by pop culture…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: an homage to Kylie Minogue’s sacrifice in “Voyage of the Damned”?
Reader Jo writes to suggest that a moment from the latest Wallace and Gromit short, ‘A Matter of Loaf and Death,’ may well be an homage to Kylie Minogue driving a forklift over the edge of a very long drop in ‘Voyage of the Damned’…
trailer break: ‘The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest’
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a trailer that says less about a film than this one.
question of the day: Is it dishonest for filmmakers to distort history and historical figures to make a point about our world today?
Reader bluejay wonders, with reference to Agora, How important is historical veracity is to a film like this? Is a film that distorts history intellectually dishonest, even if it does so to make a valid point?
