Doctor Who thing of the day: Hitler learns who River Song is
I can’t wait to see how Hitler reacts to “Let’s Kill Hitler”…
Adolf Hitler
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: trailer for Season 6.2
So much wonderful WTF in the trailer for the second half of Season 6…
watch it: “Hitler reacts to the news that Osama bin Laden was killed”
This is one of the best examples of the meme I’ve seen yet — watch it before it gets pulled from YouTube — with a killer punchline.
my reads: ‘Farthing’ by Jo Walton
If George Orwell and Dorothy L. Sayers collaborated on a novel, it might read like Farthing, which opens with the murder of an aristocrat at an English country house party in the late 1940s… except it’s an alternate England in which the course of World War II went rather differently.
small favors: Megan Fox out of ‘Transformers 3’
Megan Fox shall not be appearing in Transformers 3, due next year. It was totally her idea: “Megan Fox will not be starring in Transformers 3,” reps for the actress, 24, tell PEOPLE. “It was her decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best.” It has nothing to do with the fact that … more…
question of the day: Why do the Hitler ‘Downfall’ parody rants strike such a nerve with us?
BBC News Magazine this week ran a thoughtful, if mystified essay on the popularity of those YouTube Hitler rants (perhaps to coincide with this month’s 65th anniversary of Hitler’s death and the end of the Nazi regime). You know the ones: they borrow a scene from the amazing but serious-as-a-heart-attack German film Downfall, about Hitler’s … more…
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Nazis – UFO Conspiracy’
This totally proves what that one guy was saying about Stanley Kubrick faking the moon landings! Was Hitler trying to build a secret weapon that would move like a flying saucer and decimate Allied bombing fleets over Germany? We know that Nazi scientists were experimenting with flying wings as well as building the first ballistic … more…
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Children of Earth: Day Four”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen ALL five episodes of *Children of Earth*!
August 21: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but you’re in the Nazi-killing business, and business is booming. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Inglourious Basterds this weekend?” … more…
District 9 movie review: aliens go home
Even as half my brain was ticking off all those little nods with a geek’s appreciation for fellow geekitude, the other half of my brain was so floored with surprise that this could all still feel so fresh, so original, so like nothing I’d ever seen before.
