Category Archives: cinema

anthropomorphize much?

Posted on Monday, 2003 September 29 by Anton

Wasn’t there a movie in the Eighties whose tagline on the posters was “The most erotic thing in their world was money”? 2006: The Ananova story, if memory serves, was about a Russian newspaper being penalized(?) for a cartoon of … Continue reading →

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Jack, Jack, Jack

Posted on Monday, 2003 September 08 by Anton

I see that IMDB has accepted my correction that John Holbrook Vance is the same as one of the three Jacks previously listed; though it has not added his year of birth which I also provided.

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etymology

Posted on Sunday, 2003 August 17 by Anton

I wonder: Minbar, name of a planet in Babylon 5, could be Elvish for ‘first home’.

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Sunnydalish

Posted on Saturday, 2003 August 02 by Anton

Can you speak Buffy? Now the witty diction of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been accorded the academic respect that it deserves in Professor Michael Adams’s Slayer Slang (Oxford University Press). Under headings such as ‘The Attraction of Prefixes’ and … Continue reading →

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The Wrath of Servalan

Posted on Thursday, 2003 July 31 by Anton

Is it too good to be true? Is it too true to be good? Watch out for Blake’s 7: The Next Generation — well okay it’s really called A Rebellion Reborn.)

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never mind, waiter

Posted on Sunday, 2003 July 20 by Anton

After the Thin Man was on telly last night. There was one scene that I recognized, with some surprise: I thought the ‘sea bass’ bit was Marx Bros.

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the creation of tradition

Posted on Thursday, 2003 July 17 by Anton

Aha! When this blog was young and innocent, I asked how the heck Madison came to be a favorite name for girls. Rick Heller cites a NYT article with the answer: a movie that I never saw.