‘Life on Mars’ blogging: Episode 1
DCI Sam Tyler has an accident in 2005, and wakes up in 1973. Has he fallen down a rabbit hole, or is he following the Yellow Brick Road?
Back to the Future
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: Time Crash, the T-shirt
Available for purchase at Woot. (Thanks to reader David for the heads-up. If you stumble across a cool Doctor Who thing, feel free to email me with a link.)
trailer break: ‘Furry Vengeance’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Remember those old ads that used to ask, “Is it live, or is is Memorex?” Movies like this one make me wonder, Is it satire, or just a calculated appropriation of the notion? Razing a forest to make way for a forest-themed mall is a good idea, … more…
watch it: the 4/24/10 weekly address from President Barack Obama
This weekly address is titled “Good News from the Auto Industry.” I got excited! I thought: • new 100 percent tax on all cars that don’t get 96 MPG? • Mr. Fusion to power all new cars from 2012 onward? • breakthrough in flying Jetsonmobiles? No such luck.
‘Lost’ blogging: “Happily Ever After”
Here are the thoughts I jotted down, pretty much in order as they occurred to me as I watched…
retro trailer: ‘Back to the Future’
Take a look back at an old trailer… Hot Tub Time Machine has got me nostalgic for this movie… “Doctor Brown” just sounds wrong, doesn’t it? It’s Doc Brown… Interesting, too, how this trailer features actual music from the actual movie. Usually, trailers are cut so far in advance of the completion of a film … more…
March 26: 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 dropped a pocketwatch in the shower and now you’re stuck in 1857. But you can have a multiplex-like experience in the 19th century (assuming you remembered to bring along your portable DVD player) with a collection of the right … more…
Hot Tub Time Machine (review)
A tediously familiar collection of pointlessly crude moments drunk on their own cruelty and call it a movie. They should have titled it *Tucker Max to the Future* if they wanted folks to have an accurate idea of what they were in for…
question of the day: If you could retitle any blockbuster, what would you call it?
Sci Fi Wire ran a piece recently about “the secret code names of 37 sci-fi blockbuster films” — which sounds cooler than it actually is. I thought it would be about the original titles for great films that we now love, and hey, wouldn’t it be funny/silly/stupid if we couldn’t stop talking about that classic … more…
retro trailer: ‘Clash of the Titans’ 1981
Take a look back at an old trailer… Oh, man, did I love this movie as a teenager. My brothers and I must have borrowed the VHS from the library dozens of times — we never tired of watching it. I wonder if it’s really as goofy as this trailer makes it seem. (Please o … more…
