watch it: when Japanese bubble gum girl bands go weird
Watch the video before you read further.
Telegraph
question of the day: How much can — or should — we gag celebrity press?
A British judge has granted a worldwide gag order to protect the privacy of a misbehaving celebrity. Enforceability aside, is this a good idea?
question of the day: Must “great” films be commercial?
I think it’s certainly true that a great film can also be a commercial film. I’m just not sure that that’s always the case. What do you think?
question of the day: What movie would be the most horrifying one to adapt to a stage musical?
The other day I lamented the West End arrival next year of Ghost: The Musical. Today in the Telegraph there’s a review of the new stage version of Flashdance, and it ain’t pretty…
‘Doctor Who’ thing of the day: a review of ‘Doctor Who’: Live at Wembley Arena
Anorak has pictures from opening night, including one of Matt Smith smooching his girlfriend, model Daisy Lowe, in the audience. No Daleks were harmed.
wtf: did Tony Blair plagiarize ‘The Queen’?
Screenwriter Peter Morgan throws a rotten tomato at the former British prime minister…
what she said: Emma Thompson…
…on what women in movies need to do to make their voices heard…
wtf: people were inspired by Harry Potter to buy owls as pets
Just when you think people can’t get any fucking stupider, they prove you wrong…
you’re not helping: MP Lynne Featherstone on women as physical “role models”
There is no way in hell I could ever look like Christina Hendricks, unless I agreed to go under the knife of some mad-scientist plastic surgeon who would warp my body into something it cannot naturally be…
what he said: Peter Bradshaw at the ‘Guardian’ Film blog …
You haven’t heard what Emma Thompson said about Audrey Hepburn? Tee-hee!
