London photo of the day: Red Wing Shoes
Signage in Covent Garden.
Month: July 2013
Cinema du Sanity: the summer-of-despair issue
Disney’s Planes: Really? This is what we’ve come to? Christ Almighty. *sigh* Plus: What next? Bikes? Boats? just kill us now. Special Investigation: Planes, Cars, Turbo: all the same film? we look at the evid– oh, fuck it, what’s the point?
The Canyons review: where’s the cheese?
This pitiful would-be-sleazy melodrama is so terrible it can’t even manage to be cheesy.
The Smurfs 2 review: a smurfeit of Smurfs
I am haunted by the crazed desperation in Jayma Mays’s eyes. She may have been blinking out a Morse-code SOS, but I can’t be sure…
Doctor Who thing: rewatch the modern series (all of them) in chronological order
Stuart Ian Burns at feeling listless has created a handy-dandy list of modern Doctor Who episodes in chronological order — that is, by internal story time, not air date, and including Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Chronicles.
We’re the Millers greenband and redband trailers: a lesson in the MPAA’s twisted priorities
Before you watch the redband trailer, can you guess what extra bits to be found there will be deemed too naughty for tender eyes and ears?
London photo of the day: giant Erector set
Would whoever left their toys lying around St. Pancras International kindly collect them?
Doctor Who thing: audition scripts for would-be 12th Doctors
Note Moffat’s trademarked “girls are weird and strange and mysterious” attitude. Nine hundred years of time and space travel, and the Doctor doesn’t know what perfume is?
About Time trailer: Rachel McAdams is the time traveler’s girlfriend
Really? Time-travel as a comedic dodge for manipulating women into thinking that you’re not a complete idiot?
London photo of the day: test space
But test space for what? Part of the art is in the guessing, I guess…
