Doctor Who thing of the day: Grover and Cookie Monster sing Doctor Who!
The Sesame Street stars visited the offices of Entertainment Weekly recently, and regaled the staff with their musical interpretations of some pop-culture phenomena…
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question of the day: Why are we debating the violence that fills movies when we should be debating their despair?
I am not suggesting that we should ban or censor movies full of despair! I’m suggesting that these despairing movies are doing too good a job of reflecting our society, and it’s our society we should be concerned with, not the messengers who deliver this news.
question of the day: Is Harry Potter the Antichrist?
Does the Harry Potter-ization of pop culture — stories becoming money-generating franchises from the get-go — represent a modern culture rotting at its core, as Alan Moore suggests in his new graphic novel Century 2009?
question of the day: Why are we obsessed with origin stories?
Disney figured we were all dying to see a John Carter origin story. Were we? Or maybe only Hollywood is obsessed with origin stories, and we’re just along for the ride?
must reads: “‘New Year’s Eve’: 10 Things That Could Never Happen as They Happened”
Lest today’s QOTD be misinterpreted as any sort of defense of New Year’s Eve, I invite you to join me in guffawing along with Mandi Bierly at PopWatch at the movie’s ridiculous mala-Big Apple-isms…
question of the day: Who should play Moe in the Farrelly Brothers’ Three Stooges movie?
Peter and Bobby Farrelly have cast MadTV’s Will Sasso as Curly and Will & Grace’s Sean Hayes as Larry. Will it be someone from the small screen as Moe, too? And who should it be?
question of the day: What movie has made you angriest, and why?
PopWatch wonders whether you saw The Rite this weekend, and if it made you mad. (I wonder why anyone would expect anything at all from a January thriller, but that’s just me.) Which makes me think about the movies that have good cause to make us angry…
question of the day: Can Roger Ebert’s new ‘At the Movies’ survive in the current TV environment?
Roger Ebert announced earlier this week that he will be producing a new version of At the Movies, the PBS and later syndicated film criticism series he and Gene Siskel pioneered in the 1970s…
trailer break: ‘Tangled’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… We learned back in March that Disney was suddenly terrified of princess movies, and so was changing the title of its Rapunzel movie from, you know, Rapunzel to Tangled. And now we see how far the Mouse is going to de-girl the movie with this trailer. In … more…
question of the day: ‘The Hangover’’s baby versus ‘Drag Me to Hell’’s kitten: who wins the grudge match?
[minor spoilers for The Hangover and Drag Me to Hell] Kate Ward at EW’s PopWatch wonders whether her reaction to bits in two recent films means she loves kittens more than babies. The gist of it is this: She thinks the baby abuse in The Hangover — the kid getting whacked in the head and … more…
