A trailer is out for the 2nd half of Doctor Who series 6. It contains serious spoilers, including one extremely disturbing image (disturbing to us Doctor Who fans, I mean; not to normal people), so watch at your peril:
There’s also a separate preview just for episode 11:
And here’s Karen Gillan telling us something about series 7 that pretty much everyone had become sure was false:
Richard Armitage knows what the word “incredulous” means; but the folks who write the headlines at TheOneRing.net don’t.
Maybe it’s not quite as iconically, surreally, perversely enjoyably awful as Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo ballad, but the Dalek Christmas song – by the Go-Go’s (but not the proper Go-Go’s), from 1964 – is still a blight upon the face of the universe. So of course I have to inflict it on you:
The only bearable part is the bit where they’re ripping off the Peter Gunn theme.
Here’s the first trailer for John Carter of Mars (or John Carter, as they’re calling it now, though the logo is still “JCM”):
It looks enough like Barsoom to make me hopeful, and enough unlike Barsoom to make me pessimistic.
You can see it bigger and prettier here.
My favourite part of Franz Kafka’s Amerika is the (dare I say Kafkaesque?) sequence in which the protagonist is fired from his job as an elevator boy; it’s a classic illustration of the impossibility of upward communication in authoritarian hierachies. (I recently reread it for a paper I’m writing on Othello, William Godwin, and the problem of other minds. Long story.) The 1984 movie version, titled Class Relations, is online in twelve parts; the relevant sequence (condensed, alas) is in sections eight and nine. (Couldn’t embed these, sorry.)
I don’t like the military, but I have so many friends in it. I say I do not kill, but then I exterminate thousands.
Easy question: who said this?
Harder question: in what episode?