Stephen Hawking isn’t gone forever…
He’ll be back.
Stephen Hawking
The Danish Girl movie review: sometimes it’s hard to be a woman
Safe, conventional, and not particularly sympathetic to women, cis or trans. Mistakes the external signifiers of femininity with actually being a woman.
Mr. Peabody & Sherman review: timey-wimey doggy-waggy
Wonderfully, sweetly geeky, and full of the sort of goofy yet intriguing adventures that inspire kiddie curiosity in history and art and science.
Hawking review
An engaging documentary about the world-famous physicist that emphasizes the challenges of his personal life and the resilience of his humor and spirit.
question of the day: What great thinkers — writers, philosophers, scientists — whom Hollywood generally ignores should inspire more films?
Ray Bradbury, who died yesterday at age 91, inspired, both directly and indirectly, generations of filmmakers. Stephen Hawking’s ideas inform both Battleship and Prometheus this summer. What other thinkers should storytellers be looking to for inspiration?
otters who look like Benedict Cumberbatch (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
Metropolis Film Critics Circle moves year-end awards announcement to April; 2011 winners will was on-nameding via quantum tunneling
In a shock move that is rocking the Hollywood awards season, the Metropolis Film Critics Circle today revealed that it will haved on-announced its 2011 Best-Ofs on April 1, 2011.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (review)
Ewww. It’s got Michael Bay’s jingo-jism all over it.
aw, crap
I knew it! Stephen Hawking says aliens will want to enslave us and eat our brains, or maybe our sun, or something, and he’s, like, the smartest smart guy ever, so he should know, right? Then again… aliens can be cute: Or dangerous only insofar as they will expect you to buy them pints: Or … more…
watch it: “MC Hawking – What We Need More Of Is Science”
Continuing this week’s theme regarding the “debate” over health-care reform, surely you’ve heard that the proud ignoramuses who are screaming about “socialized medicine” and “death panels” would like us to believe that if Stephen Hawking lived in the U.K., he’d be dead — DEAD! — because the Nazi eugenicists would have deemed him not worthy … more…
