‘Torchwood’ blogging: “From Out of the Rain”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
Twilight Zone
if it’s New Year’s Eve…
…then it must mean a Twilight Zone marathon on the Sci Fi Channel. Sci Fi pisses me off quite frequently, but then it goes and does stuff like this, and I love it again.
Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series (review)
I spent hours this afternoon going through the new *Doctor Who Series 4* DVD set, and I barely even scratched the surface. And still: I think I might have to go lie down for a while. I’ve gotten a bit overexcited, a bit overwhelmed. There’s so much stuff in it, so much beyond just the episodes, that my fangirl gland is overheating.
The Women (review)
And I thought the *Sex and the City* movie was appalling.
Television Under the Swastika (review)
The Nazi Channel When you think “early television,” you think Ernie Kovacs and The Twilight Zone and Edward R. Murrow and I Love Lucy and quiz scandals and Rockefeller Center and the NBC peacock and doctors endorsing cigarettes. Turns out, though, that the 1950s were not the beginning of TV as a mass medium: that … more…
The Happening movie review: nonevent
This appears to be a movie about an incident that occurs to a certain number of people across a particular region consisting of a few states.
The Mist movie review: we have met the monsters…
Frank Darabont’s adaptations of Stephen King’s writings are not just some of the best mountings of the writer’s work but some of the best films, period, of recent years. So I don’t think it’s too outrageous — or too surprising — to say that ‘The Mist’ is not only one of the best movies of 2007, it’s one of the best horror movies ever made. Period.
Flightplan (review)
There’s a girl! There’s a girl on the wing of the movie!
The Truman Show movie review: good god?
Is The Truman Show haunting you like it’s haunting me? Do you find yourself digging through the layers of metaphors, finding new subtleties as you go? Are you in awe over Jim Carrey’s performance like I am?
