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comment posted at 2:29 AM on Dec-19-20

Jack Kirby’s The Fourth Dimension is a Many-Splattered Thing (via Linkmachinego). More on Kirby’s trips to the fourth dimension.
comment posted at 2:49 AM on Dec-17-20

Did Friends predict The Matrix? [slyt]
comment posted at 1:46 AM on Oct-11-20

The recently revamped Box of Broadcasts allows UK users with an academic computer log-in (staff and students to universities and other colleges) legal access to everything broadcast on television and BBC radio since about 2007. All of the BBC, ITV, channel's 4 & 5 and dozens of Freeview stations, the films, dramas, comedies and documentaries. Also includes a Shakespeare database of material broadcast since 1990 (plenty of material from before then is at the BBC Shakespeare Archive Resource).
comment posted at 2:40 PM on Nov-13-16

A supercut of Donald Trump saying his own name. After that you might need some guided meditation.
comment posted at 3:50 AM on Oct-31-16
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comment posted at 4:13 AM on Oct-31-16

Some genius superimposed John Williams' Superman score on the season preview for Supergirl. (SLYT)
comment posted at 9:08 AM on Sep-29-16

Cat-Scan.com is one of the strangest sites I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their scanners, or why.
comment posted at 1:40 PM on Jul-14-15

Mark Kermode reviews Entourage.
comment posted at 2:40 AM on Jun-20-15
comment posted at 2:30 PM on Jun-21-15

Age of Robots: How Marvel Is Killing the Popcorn Movie
comment posted at 1:55 AM on May-11-15

The Real Roots of Midlife Crisis In The Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch writes about why the forties are such a hard age for so many people.

Long ago, when I was 30 and he was 66, the late Donald Richie told me: “Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, Is this all? And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, Actually, this is pretty good.”

(Previously on Metafilter: another thoughtful essay by Rauch.)
comment posted at 7:06 AM on Jan-6-15

11 Struggles Only People Named Erin Understand is a Buzzfeed listicle written by an Erin which has become extraordinary thanks to the Facebook comments section which is almost exclusively filled with other Erins of various spellings sharing their experiences. Like watching Too Many Cooks develop in real time.
comment posted at 11:06 AM on Nov-8-14
comment posted at 11:15 AM on Nov-8-14

How the Internet Changed the World of Fashion: from seapunk and normcore to vaporwave and health goth.
comment posted at 3:14 AM on Nov-5-14

Daylight Saving: The Motion Picture [SLYT]
comment posted at 2:18 PM on Nov-2-14

Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic trailer in the style of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining
comment posted at 1:07 PM on Nov-1-14

Jack Bauer has a distinctive approach. He repeats it (SYTL).
comment posted at 1:17 PM on May-5-14

The first proper trailer for Matt Smith's ultimate episode as the eleventh Doctor, "The Time Of The Doctor" dropped today. And apparently a star-studded tribute to Smith was made as a companion piece.
comment posted at 1:36 AM on Dec-27-13
comment posted at 8:13 AM on Dec-27-13

The Night of the Doctor. A special minisode for Doctor Who's 50th anniversary. Squee, squee and squee again.
comment posted at 7:47 AM on Nov-14-13

Doctor Who is turning 50. There is a minisode. It goes there. If you are a fan, watch it.
comment posted at 7:58 AM on Nov-14-13
comment posted at 8:00 AM on Nov-14-13

The pre-2005 series had a Doctor who was dressed in vaguely Edwardian clothing, who spoke with an RP accent, who had his stories adapted into books. That’s just the way it was. - Andrew Hickey's  Fifty Stories For Fifty Years, one for every year of Doctor Who, reaches 2004 and  Scream of the Shalka (previously) - arguably the end of the line for "Classic" doctor who. Previous instalments had covered the TV series from start to end, as well as the odd novelisation or movie. Possibly of greatest interest are the years before the new TV series where, TV movie aside, the franchise survived and evolved in strange directions via novels and audio stories. Then, at the outmost reaches of Whodom, there is the Book of the War and the strange world of Faction Paradox, which THERE IS NO FACTION PARADOX, THERE IS NO EVIL RENEGADE, YOU DID NOT READ THIS POST.
comment posted at 1:39 AM on Oct-2-13

As part of this weekend's Guardian series: 50 years of Doctor Who, six of the actors who have played The Doctor's companions - Louise Jameson, Freema Agyeman, Katy Manning, Carole Ann Ford, Billie Piper and Karen Gillan discuss their experiences on the show in video interviews. (Links to print interviews within.)
comment posted at 12:55 AM on Sep-29-13

John le Carré on The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. Interview recorded for the BBC Proms Literary Festival. Includes actor John Shrapnel reading extracts (SLYT). It's slightly longer than the version which appeared in that night's concert interval and includes audience Q&A as well as pictures.
comment posted at 9:43 AM on Jul-31-13

Movies in movies: A montage (SLYT).
comment posted at 2:35 PM on Jul-16-13

New technology has changed scholarship. Whereas previous generations of experts have sought to reconcile the differences between quarto and Folio, current thinking highlights the difficult relationship between the various incarnations of Shakespeare's texts, something made easier by the availability of rare Shakespeare quartos in digital databases such as Early English Books Online. The scholar Eleanor Prosser thus detects "considerable evidence" for the elimination of metrical and stylistic "irregularities" in the Folio: short lines are lengthened to 10 syllables, verbs agreed with subjects, double negatives resolved. In addition, a range of unusual words are added to the text, words not used elsewhere by Shakespeare. Prosser concludes: "somewhere behind the Folio … lies a conscientious and exacting editor with literary pretensions", albeit one "more experienced in the transcription of literary than of theatrical works". But who was it?

—Who edited Shakespeare? by Saul Frampton.
comment posted at 2:25 AM on Jul-14-13

"A search that will save his love. A search that will save his life. A search that will save the world." Google Operating System uncovers an old Google/Airtel commercial from 2007 that references Indiana Jones (a bit) and is at least half as entertaining as Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. These were the tie-in billboards, here are the storyboards and this is a contemporary news article about the production.
comment posted at 2:41 AM on Jul-3-13
comment posted at 9:03 AM on Jul-3-13

Summer Talks: "Before Midnight" In a conversation moderated by Phillip Lopate, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke discuss their new film Before Midnight as well as their nearly 20-year collaboration that now spans three features. [Warning, the last two links have some spoilers, but the first link does not]
comment posted at 4:21 AM on Jul-7-13

The Spectator Archive was announced today, with searchable, browsable content of the weekly U.K. (conservative-leaning) magazine, from 1828 through 2008.
comment posted at 1:06 AM on Jun-11-13

An Alternative History of 11 American Female Doctors: "A new producer, Glen A. Larsons, changed up almost everything fans knew about Doctor Who. Gone was the constant traveling, and in its place Jennifer Jones' Doctor was now a scientist working exclusively for the United States military in exile on Earth. The comedic style that had always been a tremendous part of the show was left behind in order to capitalize on the drama skills of the Academy Award-winning actress."
comment posted at 11:46 AM on May-29-13

The Guardian's global page. Everything published on the newspaper's website each day in one long unfiltered list. Also useful, The New York Times Wire.
comment posted at 10:02 AM on Mar-29-13
comment posted at 1:51 PM on Mar-29-13

Something is coming. Not Winter (well, yes, that), but the new half-series of Doctor Who. Here's the prequel to this weekend's episode: The Bells of St Johns. And here's what you really want: Madame Vastra, Jenny 'n' Strax The Sontaran in: A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To London, Boy.
comment posted at 12:17 PM on Mar-28-13

London mayor (and oft talked-up potential future PM) Boris Johnson is demolished in a slow motion bicycle crash of an interview. (The whole thing)
comment posted at 10:47 AM on Mar-25-13

Google's beloved RSS aggregator, Google Reader will be powered down on July 1, 2013 (previously).
comment posted at 5:12 AM on Mar-15-13

Steven Soderbergh talks to New York Magazine. For a while. About everything.
comment posted at 3:23 AM on Jan-28-13

Christmas round-robin letters: The revenge Lynne Truss (of Eats, Shoot and Leaves) battles against round robin Christmas (and in this case fictional) newsletters from people she barely knows.
comment posted at 5:23 AM on Dec-22-12

As the European Union receives its Nobel Peace Prize with an ensuing celebratory concert, let us revisit 2001, when Paul McCartney and an all star line-up offered their live cover version of Let It Be.
comment posted at 2:39 PM on Dec-10-12

The Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo's Film Review YouTube channel has a lot of videos of film reviews from the livestream of their BBC radio show and podcast, going back about five years. They are sorted by genre, film rating, geographic origin and one special category, Classic Kermodean Rants, which includes his reviews of Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Sex and the City 2, in which he ends up sing-shouting The Internationale, and Angels and Demons, which woke a man from a coma (mp3, story starts at 5:10, and it is followed up here, beginning at 5:30).
comment posted at 9:49 AM on Nov-12-12
comment posted at 9:53 AM on Nov-12-12

OMNI Magazine delighted, informed, and even confused geeks of many flavours, and is now available to be downloaded from the Internet Archive. [previously]
comment posted at 12:18 PM on Nov-6-12

Shakespeare: Globe to Globe was a series of 37 Shakespeare plays performed in 37 different languages presented at the reconstructed Shakespeare Globe theatre in London this summer.
comment posted at 7:51 AM on Oct-31-12

King Lear with a happy ending (once more popular than the original!) Audio version. The Tempest with extra characters. Parody version of the tempest with extra characters (set in London). Romeo and Juliet, where Juliet fights crime as the Red Whirlwind, Verona is built on a floating island in the sky, and Prince Escalus is a tree (anime; manga). More unusual Shakespeare adaptations.
comment posted at 2:27 PM on Oct-15-12

His official title is continuity database administrator for the Lucas Licensing arm of Lucasfilm — which means Chee keeps meticulous track of not just the six live-action [Star Wars] movies but also cartoons, TV specials, scores of videogames and reference books, and hundreds of novels and comics.
comment posted at 3:58 PM on Sep-28-12

Werner Herzog directs a mini-documentary about The Killers (SLYT).
comment posted at 1:59 AM on Sep-22-12

What happens when a former star of the West Wing's sister decides to run for the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan? This.
comment posted at 1:50 PM on Sep-20-12