QOTD: Does a film winning awards make you more (or less) likely to want to see it?
With Argo and Skyfall both out on DVD timed to coincide with their Oscars and BAFTAs buzz, the studios clearly hope awards influence home viewers…
questions
QOTW: What country best represents the future?
Is there someplace on Earth that makes you feel like it’s leading the way — for better or for worse — into the future?
QOTD: What if the villains were actually the good guys?
Pick a character whom pop culture has cast as a villain and tell us what not-very-evil thing he or she was actually up to that has been perverted by the winners’ propaganda…
QOTD: What are the best movie soundtracks ever?
I swear I can hear the wind moving through tall prairie grass in John Barry’s music for Dances with Wolves…
QOTD: Which iconic (or imaginary) actor pairings would be fun to reverse?
Like how Russell Crowe and Hugh Jackman could have swapped roles in Les Misérables and it would have worked just as well…
QOTD: Does Hollywood have a math problem?
If so, is it a separate problem from Hollywood’s general disdain for anything intellectual?
QOTD: What’s your favorite bookstore and/or library from movies and TV?
Shame we’ve never seen the TARDIS library, because I’m pretty sure that’s the most amazing library ever…
question of the weekend: Which bits of history do you feel you should know more about?
Let’s geek out about the parts of history that interest us most…
question of the day: What’s your favorite or pet “conspiracy theory” about a book, movie, or TV show?
I was quite proud to have developed my own conspiracy theory about Hamlet (although I discovered later that I am not the first person to have thought of this)…
question of the day: Which film that doesn’t have one deserves a toy line?
I want Pride & Prejudice action figures, so I could have duels between Lady Catherine and Elizabeth…
