“how women were written out of film history”
Women are invisible even when they do groundbreaking, historic work. Fuck this shit.
Net buzz
Doctor Who thing: production designer’s notebook up for auction
“An absolutely unique, one-off, used on-set item,” with the funds raised going to charity.
what are the potential upsides of allowing people to use their smartphones in cinemas?
This is purely as an exercise in creative contrarianism. I don’t imagine anyone reading this would actually welcome a “second-screen” experience at the multiplex.
Doctor Who thing: explore the TARDIS on Google Maps
In case there was any doubt that the fine folk of Google are enormous dorks…
Doctor Who thing: the notion of sleeping with the Doctor is suddenly unappealing
Look, you all know what a big fan of the Doctor I am, but this freaks me out, and not in a good way…
Doctor Who thing: artist Stu MacKay’s Daleks as cultural commentary
I came across artist Stu MacKay’s work this weekend at the covered market in Greenwich this past weekend…
what “missing” film would you most like to see, and why?
Partly inspired by the surfacing this weekend of footage from the production of director/star Jerry Lewis’s notorious unreleased movie The Day the Clown Cried…
why has Anchor Bay dick-washed and whitewashed The Sapphires? (final? update)
Anchor Bay has responded with a fairly lame apology.
have you ever received violent threats online?
If so, what was the context? (Was it a seemingly random tweet? Were you playing an online game? Was it in response to a comment or blog post?) How did it make you feel? How did you deal with it?
Doctor Who thing: 50th-anniv special to be a fixed point in time
Many sites are reporting that the 50th-anniversary episode will be simulcast across the planet on November 23rd, but I can’t find a source for this…
