Battle of the Sexes movie review: totally ace
An essential history lesson with a smart smack of relevance for today (because feminism always has to be relitigated). It’s also warm, funny, and hugely entertaining.
Bill Pullman
Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 9: “The Gathering” (review)
“Two months later”? You gotta be kiddin’ me.
Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 3: “Dead of Night” (review)
Thank you, Torchwood, for sucking so much I can’t even enjoy naked John Barrowman.
Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 2: “Rendition” (review)
I’m struggling here to have some fun with “Miracle Day.” Because otherwise I’d be crying.
Torchwood: Miracle Day: Episode 1: “The New World” (review)
No spoilers here, if you’re in the U.K. and you’ve been good and won’t see this episode till tonight, when it finally airs on BBC One. There are no spoilers because there’s pretty much no way to spoil this episode: it’s all setup… all the setup we’ve already heard about.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Torchwood’ season 4 details
The ten-part arc is now called “Miracle Day”… but the miracle is of a dark sort…
Surveillance (review)
Jennifer Lynch is, like her famouser filmmaker dad David, totally demented. In a good way.
opening in the U.S. and Canada June 26: ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,’ ‘My Sister’s Keeper,’ ‘The Hurt Locker,’ ‘Cheri,’ more
opening wide Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: We do not negotiate with Decepticons, okay? Let’s roll. My Sister’s Keeper: Have you heard? It’s very sad when people die of cancer. I had no idea. So glad someone told me. opening limited The Hurt Locker: Maybe we could send Jeremy Renner to disarm that bit of … more…
trailer break: ‘Surveillance’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… In case you’re not already clued in, director and cowriter Jennifer Lynch is, indeed, David Lynch’s daughter, and yes, she inherited the freaky-weird-moviemaker gene. Also, just about everyone appearing in this movie — definitely French Stewart, Julia Ormond, and Bill Pullman — also have that gene. I … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Land of the Lost,’ ‘The Hangover,’ ‘Surveillance,’ ‘Imagine That,’ ‘Cheri,’ ‘Downloading Nancy,’ ‘Sex Positive’
I’m not expecting much from Land of the Lost (opens in the U.S. on June 5, and in the U.K. on July 31) — certainly nothing along the lines of the weird-ass freaky science fiction shit that blew my mind as an eight-year-old watching the original Saturday morning TV show. If it’s as mildly amusing … more…
