What if Doctor Who were a Japanese production? It might look something like this: Link: https://youtu.be/eak26ohx1Y8 Bonus: Tina Fey, Jane Krakowski, and Tituss Burgess lip sync to Beyoncé on a flight. Why are may airline trips never this cool? Link: … Continue reading
James Franco plays the not-very-bright host of a popular celebrity interview show. Seth Rogen is his producer and best friend but regrets not having followed his dream of being a serious journalist. But then he scores a journalistic coup: It … Continue reading
Comedy Central’s Key and Peele (whose program is in its final season, to the regret of many) show what life might be like if there were a little more justice in the world and the best teachers were valued as … Continue reading
A possible to reason to reconsider moving to Florida: Link: https://youtu.be/7Qp_bUYPrTg This particular alligator does need to practice the dismount. by … Continue reading
Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike are writers who met, fell in love, and got married in New York and now live in Missouri, where he teaches creative writing and helps his twin sister run a bar. They’re just about to … Continue reading
For decades a small number of astronomers have been searching for evidence of intelligent signals from space, so far with no confirmed discoveries. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to discover, however, because they have barely begun to look at all … Continue reading
This rather strange television series, a mixture of Western, comedy, and science fiction, was steampunk before steampunk was cool. It ran only 28 episodes over a single season. Bruce Campbell plays the title character, a graduate of Harvard Law School … Continue reading
If you haven’t already seen this it’s reasonably amusing. Nick Offerman (best known for playing real man Ron Swanson on the sitcom Parks & Recreation) here portrays an opponent of efforts to get kids to eat better, contending that pizza, … Continue reading
(Update: Unfortunately, the hitchhiking robot has been irreparably damaged by vandals in Philadelphia. More in this later post.) In an interesting social experiment (described in an Associated Press report by Collin Binkley), a couple of Canadian researchers have launched a … Continue reading
This is a fun space opera with a nice sense of humor and flashes of humanity, but it has so many characters and such a convoluted plot that it would have helped if the film had come with orientation briefings … Continue reading