1. I will be super-happy if Up wins Best Picture at the Oscars tomorrow. That's the only opinion I have. TV FAR outshone movies in '09 IMO ( Read more... )

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I hate Google Chrome, but Firefox is killing my Windows processor (Pentium 4 2.0 GHz, and it's slooooow, or maybe because I've gotten used to C2STK). However, the Incognito window might prove useful sometime ( Read more... )

1. I really hope this is real and not a hoax. Librarianjessie, can you smell the Northrax tonight ( Read more... )

Two days to the Dollhouse premiere, and despite my reservations, have been ridiculously excited for it. And then this shows up. Oh Joss, you spoil me ( Read more... )

Two days from now, I will either have a super-awesome story about how I scored a sweet MacBook Pro for only 40k on eBay, or I will be screaming bloody murder about how I was defrauded. Watch this space ( Read more... )

God bless ontd, with this morning's post of the high-larious back-and-forth between the great Simon Pegg (Spaced, Big Train, Shaun of the Fricking Dead) and Charlie Brooker (critic and writer of the very, very fun, and very gory Dead Set) on the virtues of zombie movies and the zombie metaphor on The Guardian.

First, Simon's take, excerpted:

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Before anything, did I lend out my DVD of My Fair Lady to anyone in LJ land or Multiply land? Cause I can't find it, and for some reason I'm totally jonesing to see it. I get weird media jones these days. The other day it was for Beethoven's Ninth, the day before that it was for Saint-Saens' Danse Macabre, and during the storm I was listening to ( Read more... )

Paul Newman died today, at age 83. One of the last of the Great Movie Stars, and by virtue of his philantrophy and all-around coolness one of the awesomest people ever, Paul was, as all of you know, one of my favorites. And here he is, making eating eggs one hell of a badass gesture, in one of the greatest movie scenes of all time. It's from Cool ( Read more... )