what he said: journalist and new-media researcher Jeremy Littau…
…on the Chilean mine disaster coverage, and how it’s representative of the insanity driving corporate media these days…
deep thought (re what kind of terrible I am)
I wish someone would tell me definitively: Am I a homophobic lesbian hater, or am I feminazi man hater? I guess I could be a self-hating, misanthropic lesbian homophobe. That sounds like an awful lot of work, though.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the politics that scrapped a ‘Doctor Who’ story in the 1970s
A BBC Radio 4 program last year — and just rebroadcast last week — goes into some detail about why the Doctor Who story “Shada” was never broadcast, and more…
question of the day: What movie would be the most horrifying one to adapt to a stage musical?
The other day I lamented the West End arrival next year of Ghost: The Musical. Today in the Telegraph there’s a review of the new stage version of Flashdance, and it ain’t pretty…
screencap Friday: what the flick? #145
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a TV show on DVD. Guess the TV show — you don’t need to guess the episode, just the show. And if you assume it’s something I’ve said I’m watching or said I like, you’re not necessarily on the right track.
watch it: “Stunt Kitteh Box Jump”
Sometimes, ya just gotta be in the box…
trailer break: ‘Carlos’
With a long miniseries version debuting on TV and a shorter cut opening in theaters, Olivier Assayas’s epic about the notorious terrorist Carlos the Jackal should be an interesting test in new movie-release paradigms.
a few thoughts on ‘Caprica’: “Retribution”
Lacy and the STO’s attempt to bomb the Caprica City spaceport is an interesting counterpoint to Clarice’s virtual bombing of the C-Bucs’ stadium. Maybe Clarice is a better leader for a terrorist group that actually wants to achieve its crazy goals.
Red (review)
Of all the washed-up washed-out over-the-hill too-old-for-this-shit action-hero movies we’ve had thrown at us this year — The A-Team, The Losers, The Expendables — Red is by far the most amusing, the most clever, the most tongue-in-cheek, the most fun (and I say that as someone who mostly liked those other movies).
watch it: 1980s European Volkswagen Beetle commercial
A hilarious tie-in to this week’s unveiling of never-before-seen video of Eric Stoltz’s brief tenure as Marty McFly…
