from Facebook: a real, not-The-Onion headline honestly not parodying the state of Hollywood movies, really
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Dark Horizons
Doctor Who thing: the Doctor (and his best villains) take over Heathrow
Travelers to the U.K. this summer won’t be able to avoid the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who: they’ll run straight into the celebrations the moment they get through Customs.
Doctor Who thing: the Doctor goes a-Viking in Dark Horizons by Jenny T. Colgan
If you wish the new Doctor Who were more like the old Doctor Who, this is an adventure for you.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: seventh season a go, with Matt Smith (but maybe not till 2013?)
Hoorah! More Doctor Who! Even if we might have to wait a long while for it…
inconsistent embargo ugliness rears its ugly head again with ‘X-Men: First Class’
I have not seen X-Men: First Class yet. I’ll see it tomorrow evening. Right around 24 hours from now, I will have an unbearable urge to send a tweet out to the Net as I emerge from my screening, to let you all know what my inital reaction is. And I will have to strangle that urge in a way that other critics haven’t had to…
question of the day: Do hotly anticipated geek films suffer from Too Many Trailers syndrome?
There’s a new trailer for X-Men: First Class out! Yes, another one. Enough already? Are are you always eager for more?
a little pick-me-up for a rainy Saturday
And just as I’m about to head out to endure Death at a Funeral: Garth Franklin of Dark Horizons considers me a must-read. Nice.
because nobody uses teh Googles
Film critic Paul Fischer, a regular contributor to Dark Horizons and Moviehole, has been caught lifting material for his reviews from the Sundance Film Festival directly from the festival guide book, by Chris Parry at the Vancouver Sun: [A]fter Fischer published a series of reviews from the Sundance Film Festival, indie filmmakers began grumbling about … more…
