Sci-Fi-London Easter parade fun! Part I
Check out an undead Harry Potter, the requisite Boba Fett, a scary bunny, and more, all parading along London’s Southbank on Easter Sunday…
steampunk
question of the weekend: How would you dress up for a science fiction parade?
Tomorrow I will be attending — as a spectator only — Sci-Fi-London’s Easter parade. If you were there, what kind of costume would you wear?
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: legendary steampunk Dalek
“Joseph Bazalgette patented this sewer maintenance machine in an effort to modernize the cleaning of London’s sewers. Powered by miasma and driven by modified rat brains -genetically or otherwise, we do not know – it was too willful an invention, and the first fifty produced escaped into the wild unknown of the tubular London underground, forcing Bazalgette abandon his invention and return to using manpower.” Or so the legend goes…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: ‘Doctor Who’-themed bar opens in Brooklyn
It may not represent the best tribute to our favorite Time Lord, however…
is steampunk over…
…if the Christmas windows at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan have borrowed it?
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “A Christmas Carol”
Doctor Who has been doing amazing things with TV since 2005, but this may be the best example yet of how gonzo and how simultaneously emotionally satisfying TV can be these days.
The Nutcracker in 3D (review)
You already know the score — duh da-duh-da-duh! duh da-duh-da-duh! — but in case you’ve forgotten, The Nutcracker in 3D will attempt to mainline it into your brain, fuel-injecting sugar-plum fairy juice into your festivus lobe at the drop of, um, a sugar plum. If you think that’s a horrendously mixed metaphor, it’s got nothing on this polar-express train wreck…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: new Eighth Doctor costume?
Reader Martin sent me an email over the weekend with the subject line: ‘8th Doctor’s new costume.’
Now, I know this makes absolutely no sense at all, but the first thing I thought was: Matt Smith’s getting a costume change already?
Jonah Hex (review)
If Jonah Hex can talk to the dead, then he’s probably the only one (apart from Ned the Pie Man) who could have any meaningful interaction with this movie.
classic ‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Movie”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
