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Doctor Who thing: more adventures with the Doctor Puppet

Fri, Apr 12, 2013
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I love how much personality Alisa Stern gets out of her puppets, especially with no dialogue…

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Doctor Who thing: minisode about how Strax ended up with Vastra and Jenny

Wed, Mar 27, 2013
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Apparently this is meant to be exclusive to U.S. iTunes… but why?

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Doctor Who thing of the day: way cool fan-toon “Blink to the Future”

Thu, Jan 03, 2013
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Oh my god, Back to the Future and Doctor Who are the same story!

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question of the day: How should we be talking about the ethics of the Australian radio prank that resulted in a suicide?

Mon, Dec 10, 2012
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Why does corporate-media sociopathy seem to believe that anything not forbidden is compulsory?

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question of the day: How could TV be more experimental?

Fri, Dec 07, 2012
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In what other ways, beyond breaking the fourth wall, could TV do something different? Or is stuff like this simply too arty for mainstream TV audiences? Why isn’t there room, on a hundred-plus channels, for something more arty?

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fun stuff from FlickFilosopher stats week of Nov 24-30 2012

Sun, Dec 02, 2012
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Actual unretouched phrases that people plugged into search engines this week that led them to this site (with some commentary from me)…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: fan making a Time War film

Thu, Nov 15, 2012
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Watch a trailer for fan video maker Sam Elliot’s interesting and very ambitious project…

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question of the day: What are the best death scenes ever?

Wed, Oct 17, 2012
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I’m going with the shower scene in Psycho, which represents an elegance in the depiction of something horrific that no other filmmaker has come close to replicating.

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Seven Psychopaths (trailer)

Wed, Sep 19, 2012
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“I almost got killed today because you kidnapped the wrong dog.” I cannot wait to see this.

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question of the day: The anti-Muslim movie trailer that supposedly prompted the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya: seriously, WTF?

Thu, Sep 13, 2012
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This is a joke, right? No one could possibly take this seriously, could they? I kept expecting Will Ferrell to pop up.

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