The Break-Up (review)
Depressingly conservative, not in a political way, but in a Ward-and-June-Cleaver way…
Year: 2006
teetering pile o’ dvds: ‘Syriana,’ ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,’ more
Movies taunt me from the to-be-watched pile…
it’s ‘Prairie Home Companion’ week!
At this time of year when all the blow-’em-up flicks and kiddie cartoons are getting all the attention, I’m gonna lavish some love on a smart, witty grownup movie.
nerd fantasies
Involving Josh Lucas, ice cream, and doing nothing else but blogging all day…
Rollergirls: The Complete Season One (review)
I’d say this was all fake… but it’s too boring to be invented.
The Closer: The Complete First Season (review)
A whole new kind of eye-opener: it’s feminist like the show invented the concept of standing up for a woman as *human*: smart, skilled, flawed…
Playing for Change (review)
A valentine to street musicians, which’ll be more interesting, I suspect, if you don’t encounter the breed in your daily life.
New Police Story (review)
Is a Jackie Chan movie ever really bad?
weekend box office: well, there’ll be no living with Ratner now
Mutants and global warming: it’s the box office battle of the summer!
‘Behind the Screen: The Princess Bride’: mostly dead is a little alive
The final death knell of my ‘Princess Bride’ book… but I’m working with Miracle Max on reviving it…
