imagine a David Cronenberg Return of the Jedi (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Beatles
question of the day: 50 years of Bond, Beatles, and Doctor Who: coincidence or something in the water in early 60s Britain?
Three huge icons from across the pop culture spectrum were born in the early 1960s in Britain. Is that merely a fluke of fate?
Searching for Sugar Man documentary review: musical mystery
I can’t remember the last film that rocked my world like this extraordinary documentary does. A magnificent detective story, bursting with a thrilling sense of mystery and of artistic discovery.
Rock of Ages (review)
The story is almost beside the point, because Tom Cruise’s nude torso that I could be running my hands all over and because the young kittenish leads in this story cobbled together around awesome 80s hair-band stadium anthems are the weakest part of it.
Doctor Who thing of the day: when the Doctor will on haven met the Beatles
It sure does look like Matt Smith appears in this early photo of the Beatles. This is a real photo, completely unaltered in any way…
General Aladeen triumphs over the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Zionists! (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
retro trailer: ‘A Hard Day’s Night’
As we ponder the imminent arrival on our screens of the spectacle that is Justin Bieber: Never Say Never, let us pause to consider that he is hardly the first musically inclined young man that young ladies have screamed their heads off over…
NBC is sooo regretting letting Conan go; new Wolverine movie is called ‘The Wolverine’; BBC continues to employ David Tennant and John Simm; more: leftover links
Plus: the shocking number of British actors who have not been in a Harry Potter movie; is Wikileaks’ Julian Assange being persecuted?; we don’t need no stinkin’ objectivity in journalism; and more.
Nowhere Boy (review)
Oh, we already know how it ends! John Lennon starts a band and ends up bigger than God. Before that, though… whew. There’s a whole lotta psychosexual stuff packed into Nowhere Boy, the tale of Lennon’s adolescence in Liverpool, which may or may not be true, but it sure makes for a smashing film.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Doctor Who’ at the Proms was awesome, apparently
Look how snazzy Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, and Arthur Darvill look in their dress-up clothes!
