Doctor Who blogging: “Cold War”
Alien on the Red October… though actually, this episode reminded me most of the Peter Davison-era Doctor Who story “Warriors of the Deep.”
Duran Duran
River Song, meet Hello Kitty (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
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.
London photo of the day: the closest I will ever be to Simon Le Bon
I was at the O2 arena tonight for Duran Duran live on stage. Lemme tell ya, if you’ve never been in a crowd of 20,000 40something women all having orgasms during “Hungry Like the Wolf,” you have not lived.
Take Me Home Tonight (review)
Hey, I love Duran Duran, too, but 80s nostalgia as a thing is so ten years ago… just about the time that the 33-year-old Topher Grace would have been the right age to play the just-out-of-college, I-dunno-what-to-do-with-myself whiner he plays here…
trailer break: ‘Alpha and Omega’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Okay, so: Girl wolves wear flowers behind their ears. Perfectly normal and natural. But how are we supposed to be able to tell the other wolves are male? Where are their beer cans? Or their beer guts? How are we to know the male wolves are male … more…
trailer break: ‘Notorious’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Just an FYI, in case you weren’t already aware, Duran Duran not does appear in this movie. Not even sampled. Notorious opens wide in the U.S. on January 16 and in the U.K. on February 13.
my week at the movies: ‘The Unborn,’ ‘Bride Wars,’ ‘Hotel for Dogs,’ ‘Notorious,’ ‘Yonkers Joe’
And so another movie year begins, and it’s time to get back on the hamster wheel of screenings. I was all set to say, “You know, maybe The Unborn (opens wide in the U.S. on January 9, and in the U.K. on February 27) ain’t gonna be so bad after all. Yeah, it looks rather … more…
