Film and TV

Can you smell the anti-climax sighing through the atmosphere!? The 11th Doctor is…Matt Smith? I can’t tell you much about the young man that hasn’t been routinely summarized everywhere elsewhere….except for the apparent fact, which I will seek to further research and therefore confirm, that he is indeed neither Bill Nighy or James Nesbitt both […]

This…and another unfortunate thing to go unmentioned…I suffer because I went into work yesterday. Yes, it seems it was announced yesterday that it will be announced today what actor or actress is taking over the helm of Doctor Who as the 11th Doctor. All of this and a bit more on a holiday afterbirth special […]

For kicks and giggles, I’ve recently started watching the SAW film series. Um…it’s OK. This much I know: Cary Elwes is wasted as he should have at least once responded to the villain’s insane requests with a flippant “As you wish…” Danny Glover is the worst cop…ever…even worse than other cops he’s portrayed…just terrible. The […]

Each year, a rather fantastic parade of wonderfully imagined costumes and impossibly constructed floats and contraptions helps celebrate Halloween in New York City’s Greenwich Village. Or so I am told. I can’t remember actually ever going. Regardless, this year there is a savage plan. I had thought of other personas to go as in the […]