‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: a review of ‘Doctor Who’: Live at Wembley Arena
Anorak has pictures from opening night, including one of Matt Smith smooching his girlfriend, model Daisy Lowe, in the audience. No Daleks were harmed.
question of the day: Did you watch any of the Chilean mine rescue, and did you find it riveting?
Now that all the trapped Chilean miners and the rescuers who went down to help with their return to the surface have made it out alive and well, the general consensus seems to be that the rescue, televised around the world virtually nonstop for 24 hours, was riveting TV.
trailer break: ‘Conviction’
It must be awards season, when the studios are dragging out all the Incredible True Stories and the casts full of Oscar winners and nominees.
FlickFilosopher meetup in NYC on Sunday, November 7?
Who’s up for a get-together in New York City on Sunday, November 7, late afternoon, early evening? We could go to a movie — Megamind and 127 Hours both open on the 5th — or perhaps we’ll just hang out and drink and talk about movies, politics, Doctor Who, whatever…
tres cool: no 3D for ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I is rapidly barreling at us — it releases on November 19 on both sides of the Atlantic — which is good enough news, but now comes even better news for fans of not-sucky films everywhere…
Prime Suspect: The Complete Collection (review)
If you’re not sure why it’s so awesome to see Helen Mirren unapologetically kicking ass in Red — and to see her doing so without getting grief for it from the guys — then perhaps you’ve never seen Prime Suspect, the British cop series she starred in through most of the past two decades.
wtf: ‘Ghost: The Musical’ coming to the West End
Someone make it stop…
watch it: “Star Wars Uncut”
At Star Wars Uncut, they chopped Episode IV: A New Hope up into 15-second clips, asked fans to refilm those clips however they liked, and reassembled the best bits into a complete film, if one of a Frankenstein-ian sort.
trailer break: ‘Hereafter’
Matt Damon sees dead people. And pretty French ladies. And scared little boys. And it’s all so very, very sad.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the Doctor is now immortal, so there
Thirteen regenerations, and that’s it? So old Who, now that the prospect of a 13th Doctor doesn’t seem so far away…
