Sadly it's the crappy, short-lived U.S. faux-cyberpunk series, not the Saturday evening pop video compilation show broadcast on Channel 4 ( Read more... )

Yes: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/feb/21/smart-drugs-students-universitiesRead more... )

A sudden fondness for minimalist interior design based around the colour white, with excessive use of artificial lighting ( Read more... )

Oh well, better late than never:

http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/01/the_mystery_of_the_terrible_sherlock_holmes_vs_din.php (includes embedded YouTube trailer).

Hit the "doyle" tag on this entry for previous anti_gravitas coverage.

...for being "clever, but utterly mad."Review here: http://www.screenhead.com/reviews/sir-arthur-conan-doyles-sherlock-holmes-movie-review-dont-laugh-its-from-the-asylum/Read more... )

This is, of course, the result of what's known in the biz as "The Asylum Effect", The Asylum being a film production company notorious for getting their knock-off, soundalike DVD efforts - Xavier S. Puslowski's The Terminators being an example from last year - onto the shelves prior to the release of the pukka, similarly-titled movies in the cinema ( Read more... )

'Our college system is sick, in the sort of slowly dying way that reminds me of Ernest Hemingway's "Snows of Kilimanjaro," and it's because "academics" are much too out of touch with their "students."' - tanaearanduril, http://community.livejournal.com/academics_anon/1688888.htmlRead more... )

There are no words for this level of wrongness:


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Yes, I know. The very concept almost seems painfully anachronistic in this torrent 'n' VoD era, but there are some strange old fuddy-duddies out there who actually enjoy the simple, oldschool pleasure of holding a physical, tangible version (complete with natty packaging) of a media artifact in their mitts. Although Amazon et al are soldiering on ( Read more... )

...in my wallet.

Out today on Region 1 DVD:


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