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04.05.99: Entertainment Trivia Blitz is back. A new game starts every Monday, with cool prizes up for grabs. Check it out here.

I've got a new e-mail address: thechick@flickfilosopher.com. If for some reason you have the old AOL addy in your address book, please update it -- I'll be shutting down my AOL account soon. Thanks.

Geek countdown: 44 days till Star Wars.

03.29.99: Got myself a new movie toy: a DVD player. Boy, is it cool! Now I can skip instantly around a movie to my favorite scenes -- no waiting for the rewind or fast-forward -- and get perfect freeze frames on my very favorite bits. The picture and sound quality blow VHS away. Lots of DVDs come with bonuses, like both widescreen and pan-and-scan versions of a movie, or things like trailers and alternate endings. Ironically, it's one of those bonuses on my first DVD rental, Snake Eyes, that helps me trash the film! The universe is an amazing place, no?

Geek countdown: 51 days till Star Wars.

03.22.99: My Best Picture roundup wraps up today with a brand-new review of last night's big winner, Shakespeare in Love. Traffic's been way up over the last few weeks -- people are really getting into these (mostly) great old flicks.

I was delighted to see that The Flick Filosopher was featured last Wednesday in an article about Oscar stuff online in the Long Island newspaper Newsday. I wouldn't have known about that, though, if a reader of both Newsday and my site hadn't alerted me. If you see The Flick Filosopher mentioned in your local paper, I'd really appreciate it if you'd send me the clipping, or at least let me know when and where you saw it. Thanks.

Some new Mail this week: a strange compliment and a blasphemer who doesn't get the whole Star Wars thing.

Geek countdown: 58 days till Star Wars.

03.15.99: From the Where Are They Now? Department: Have you wondered how Keiko (Free Willy) the whale is doing? CNN's Nature headlines for 03.12 provided a clue:

NATURE:
>Iceland's parliament OKs commercial whaling
>'Free Willy' star living the good life in Iceland

Sushi, anyone?

The new Star Wars preview ends by announcing a revised opening date of May 19, so the geek countdown now stands at: 65 days till Star Wars.

03.08.99: Play the trivia game A Month of Movies now through March 31st at The Flick Filosopher -- you could win a year of movie tickets, a Sony DVD Player and ten DVDs, a 35mm camera, Blockbuster Video Gift Cards, and subscriptions to Entertainment Weekly and Variety, all from Uproar, the trivia game site. Questions are updated daily, and a new game starts every Monday, so be sure to check back often. Click here to play.

Geek countdown: 74 days till Star Wars.

03.01.99: With three weeks till the Academy Awards ceremony, my marathon Oscar countdown of every Best Picture since 1927 is entering the homestretch. Whew!

Mail continues to pour in. This week: amongst other letters, I get what-for, yet again, from my most vociferous critic.

Geek countdown: 81 days till Star Wars.

02.22.99: In the Mail this week: high praise, the debate over The Thin Red Line continues, and -- what a shock -- I take a drubbing for my stand on There's Something About Mary.

Yet another new Link: Ram Samudrala's Movie ram-blings may not be much to look at, but his "opinionated rantings" on movies can be interesting.

Geek countdown: 88 days till Star Wars.

02.15.99: You may have noticed that The Flick Filosopher is now a Reel affiliate. (You'll find that you can now jump directly from some of my reviews to those movies' pages at Reel, and I'm adding more links all the time.) When you click through to Reel from a link or banner here and buy something there, I get a smidgen of a kickback.So if you're inclined to buying videos or DVDs (and Reel is a great place to shop, as I can attest from personal experience), please click through from The Flick Filosopher. On top of the ever-growing amounts of unpaid time I spend working on the site, there's the server space to be paid for. I'm not griping -- I just wish The Flick Filosopher was less of a money pit than it is. Your help is appreciated.

Those of you on the mailing list know I've been having some trouble with my (former) list host, ListBot. The list is now hosted by ONElist, which I hope will be more reliable .

Another new Link for your enjoyment and edification: Nick Davis' Movie Archives is a cool place to go for a literate and intelligent look at movies new and old.

The debate continues to rage over The Thin Red Line on my Mail page -- plus, a little fan letter.

Geek countdown: 95 days till Star Wars.

02.08.99: Happy happy, joy joy! The Flick Filosopher was a What's Cool site at Netscape Netcenter last Monday! Netscape coolmeisters said, "This chick pricks the rhetoric of slick movie promo shtick with her truth stick." Neat-o!

That accolade brought in tons of new traffic and lots of Mail from new readers -- everybody, it seems, is up in arms one way or another over The Thin Red Line.

What's more, I've discovered a soul mate for The Flick Filosopher. He's The Film Geek, and if he wasn't already married I'd kiss him. If you can stand my ranting, then you'll revel in his. A gorgeously designed site, and fabulously written. Check it out. (Also newly added to my Links page.)

Geek countdown: 101 days till Star Wars.

02.01.99: If you're enjoying my Oscar special, you'll like the two sites new to my Links list: Greatest Films, an amazing compendium with tons of info on the best movies ever made, and Classic Movies at the Mining Co., with links to resources all over the Web.

New Mail this week: someone who likes me, and someone with a bone to pick over Shakespeare in Love.

Geek countdown: 108 days till Star Wars.

01.25.99: How geeky am I? This past Thursday I made a note to my impatient self that there were only four months to go until Star Wars: The Phantom Menace opens. I'm counting the days...

01.18.99: We're in the January doldrums. My choices among new movies this week were pretty much limited to crap (Virus) or sap (At First Sight) -- let us not even mention the piece of junk with that Dawson's Creek kid. And not much is debuting this Friday, either. Fortunately, there are a few interesting films that have opened since Christmas that I still haven't seen -- Affliction and The Thin Red Line in particular -- and I'll probably spend the next couple of weeks exploring them. And some movies I've already reviewed are opening wide, such as A Civil Action and A Simple Plan -- wouldn't mind seeing either of them again, purely for my own amusement.

Lots of new Mail this week -- one reader has some serious problems with my positive reviews of Deep Impact and Titanic. Another didn't like my negative take on Snow White: A Tale of Terror. Oh well -- I can't expect to please everyone, can I?

01.11.99: Seventy days from today, the Academy (as in, "I'd like to thank...") will hand out its awards for achievement in the art of motion pictures. Whether an industry that, in the space of a few months last year, has seen fit to bestow upon us Lost in Space, Godzilla, and Armageddonshould be lauded is beside the point. That three-and-a-half-hour orgy is gonna happen whether we like it or not.

But rest easy, friends. Your Flick Filosopher is here to put her own bizarre spin on Oscar history, just to keep Hollywood in its place. Check out my Academy Award Special for my take on every so-called Best Picture.

01.04.99: It's been months in the planning, and it's almost here. I refer to The Flick Filosopher's Academy Award Special 1999. Starting next Monday, I'll report on each and every movie that's ever won the Best Picture Oscar, a new movie each day till Oscar night, March 21st. All the details are here.

12.28.98: This year, the passing of December 25th means just one thing to me: no longer having to endure annoying previews for Stepmom and Patch Adams, which opened on Christmas Day, probably to pass from the large screen forthwith.

12.21.98: If you're on my mailing list, then you already know that Coming Attractions will be taking a break for the next two weeks, though the regular Monday columns will be here through the holiday season. There are too many interesting movies that have just opened or are opening over the next two weeks to warrant taking a break.

Happy Whatever-You-Celebrate to you all!

12.14.98: If you see one preview this holiday season, see the Star Wars preview. But if you see two previews, make the other one Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Probably the most clever -- and most honest -- trailer in a long time.

12.07.98: I'm sick of seeing the preview for Patch Adams, and obviously so are other people -- it garnered hisses during its showing at the Psycho screening I attended. Patch Adams may turn out to be a decent movie, but the preview is nauseating: it makes the film look as if it's going to drip gobs of Hallmark-style sentimentality and tug at your heartstrings very calculatingly with lots of desperately ill children. And that girl looks disturbingly like Julia Roberts. Is Hollywood manufacturing another girl-next-door nontalent to ram down our throats?

11.30.98: I finally saw the preview for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace -- both as a QuickTime movie and on the big screen -- a religious experience if ever there was one. Ah, Tatooine! Ah, poor little Anakin, we know your future! Oh, Liam and Ewan with lightsabers. Oh, that scene: "Anakin Skywalker, meet Obi-Wan Kenobi." The thrill!

It's like coming home to a place I've never been.

11.23.98: Ooo, I'm so mad! The preview for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace was supposed to be playing with Enemy of the State -- and it didn't! Now I'm torn -- do I wait to see the preview in the theater, or do I download it from www.starwars.com and satisfy my impatient self?

New Mail this week.

11.16.98: Have you seen the television commercials for the video release of Small Soldiers? One of them implies that Phil Hartman is... well, for lack of a better word, the hero of this piece of junk. Bad enough that this is simply not true, but it's obvious that the studio is trying to cash in on the interest in Hartman's work since his untimely death. Disgusting.

11.09.98: Check out MSeek.com, a new entertainment search engine -- kinda like Yahoo! for the Hollywood set. The Flick Filosopher is listed there... and you can rate my site for MSeek.com by choosing a rating from the form on the Home page. Better ratings mean higher rankings and a more prominent listing. You can honestly rate me a "10," can't you? I knew you could.

New Mail from another of the Barn of the Blood Llama guys, Kirk Hunter -- but surprise! He's raving over Pleasantville, which is virutally llama-free.

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