Friday night fortune cookie: Dr. Tolian Soran says…
“Time is the fire in which we burn.”
Star Trek
question of the day: How can ‘NCIS,’ the most-watched, most-loved TV show in America, be so absent from online fandom?
Apparently NCIS, the military cop procedural, is the most watched scripted show in the United States. I would not have guessed this if given a million guesses.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (review)
I’ve listened to my fellow critics snarking on the film’s many many faults and I’ve laughed, but only at myself, because they’re not wrong and yet still it doesn’t change the fact that I really had a lot of fun with this movie.
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: eating the Doctor
My pal Lanna Lee just graduated from college — congrats, Lanna! — and as part of her celebrations, she had a Doctor Who cake…
Saturday cute: Victorian ‘Star Trek’
First star on the left, and straight on till morning…
Thor (review)
I knew it! I knew Kenneth Branagh was a geek. Oh, sure, he got famous for all that snooty Shakespeare stuff, but deep down, he’s mad for comic books and superheroes and all that pulp-fiction stuff. He’s a dork.
question of the day: Is it a good idea for TV and film writers to incorporate fan input into their projects?
Star Trek writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman have said that they plan to heed some suggestions from fans as they write the sequels. Oh, dear. I’m not sure how wise this is…
The Lincoln Lawyer (review)
Josh Lucas and Matthew McConaughey have never actually appeared onscreen together before. It had been entirely possible, up till this moment, that they were the same person, in a Jekyll-and-Hyde sort of way. Would this be how the universe ends, with parallel-universe versions of the same actor causing all of infinity to collapse into some hellish singularity?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: the new ‘Doctor Who’ Experience is goofy and glorious
I’m not sure I saw anyone under the age of 10 without a sonic screwdriver. I saw more than a few fezzes on more than a few heads (because fezzes are cool). Little boys were wearing bowties. Adorable! And then you get to be on the TARDIS…
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