In response to a blog post on “25 things that only happen in the movies,” the TV Squad blog has put together its own list of “14 things that only happen on TV.” Together, these form quite an impressive set of observations:

No one ever gets out of a car and locks it – even on [...]

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Tim Burton will direct Alice in Wonderland. If that’s not the best movie news of the year, I don’t know what is.

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Is Wilson the Volleyball the only inanimate character on IMDB? If you can think of any others, let me know. This is important research.
Note: Muppets and similar things don’t count, because they’re animate when they have, like, arms in them.

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My friend PJ is publishing an article for an Italian music magazine later this year; the article will feature interviews with musicians involved in the “shoegazing” movement of the early 1990s. He asked me to put together the magazine’s supplemental web content: an outline of the movement for those who, uh, missed it. Here’s a [...]

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Congrats to the fans of Kenneth Branagh’s excellent version of Hamlet, who managed to push through a DVD release after 10 years of senseless movie-rights wrangling. Long time coming but it was worth it!
(he really shouldn’t have put in that cheesy Yorick flashback, though)

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