Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie review: the high price of hope
There’s genuine fun here, but the humor is cynical, the heroics are tinged with regret, and it’s all delivered with a cold smack of — yes — political relevance.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Guardians of the Galaxy movie review: empty space
Just another rote space adventure. It’s not actively awful, but there isn’t a single damn thing in the least bit surprising or memorable about it.
if you could save only 10 films for humanity, what would they be?
Perhaps you’ve got 10 minutes to grab DVDs from your collection, or an hour to download 10 films, before the Vogon constructor fleet destroys Earth and you escape with Ford Prefect.
question of the weekend: What one thing would you change about the human body?
For this weekend’s question, let’s subvert evolution and intelligently redesign our own bodies…
Doctor Who blogging: “The Rings of Akhaten”
I’m so relieved to discover that I really like this episode.
fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Mar 23-29 2013
Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…
question of the weekend: Moving house: awful thing, or the worst thing ever?
Please share your moving horror stories here. If you have any fairy tales, I’m sure we’d all love to hear them, because we’ll never have heard anything like them before.
watch it: “Astronomical by Mishka Henner”
Space is big. Really big. You may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist, but that’s just peanuts to space…
question of the weekend: What’s the funniest book you’ve ever read?
I would choose The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. It remains hilarious every time I read it…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Let’s Kill Hitler”
After a few days to digest this and multiple viewings to comfirm my feelings about this episode, I am sad to say that it treads dangerously close to a point at which I want to disavow it as “real” Doctor Who and start pretending that it doesn’t “count.”
