retro ad: 1980s Crazy Eddie commercial
If you lived in New York in the 1980s, you could not have escaped the ads for Crazy Eddie, an electronics and home appliance chain…
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The Grapes of Wrath (retro trailer)
Wherever there’s a director goin’ over budget, Fox’ll be there. Wherever there’s a spoiled movie star renegotiatin’ a contract, Fox’ll be there.
retro ad: hilariously sexist 1960s Folgers commercial
Women who can’t make coffee are bad wives, and bad people all around. It’s a basic fact.
‘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.”
Fright Night movie review: it doesn’t suck
It’s a rare thing, but sometimes digging up the past and giving it another spin is a good thing.
Jane Eyre (1943) (retro trailer)
The bit of Bronte fever happening in the U.K. at the moment really isn’t anything new…
retro ad: 1950s Pepsi commercial with James Dean
Apparently this was James Dean’s first paid work as an actor…
Doctor Who thing of the day: 1890s steampunk TARDIS
What if the Doctor had landed on Earth first not in the 1960s but in the 1890s? Might the TARDIS’s chameleon circuit gotten stuck on something like this?
retro ad: young Russell Tovey in a bizarre 1990s Heinz ketchup commercial
This might be the weirdest ad for anything I’ve ever seen.
retro ad: 1970s Mego Planet of the Apes dolls commercial
You’ve seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes, now, er, see the ad that started it all. Sort of.
