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UPDATED: Somehow, the wonderful comments (see below) are making me think of this: I got the most delightful email from a reader in response to my post about Transformers and how I’m guessing I might not hate it like I typically hate Michael Bay’s movies. Since this reader chose not to post this in comments … more…
Film critics are often accused of being failed filmmakers. It’s no secret that I am, in addition to being a film critic, a failed (as yet) screenwriter. Granted, I haven’t put quite in the effort into writing scripts (as yet) that I have into writing film reviews, so I really can’t complain that my scripts … more…
Watched the news lately? Your local 11 o’clock broadcast, a national cable network, whatever. Watched it? Did you learn more about Paris Hilton’s legal woes and which team made the playoffs than about real issues that impact you as an American, as a citizen of planet Earth, as a human being? Disgusting, isn’t it? Real … more…
I saw the trailer for Transformers on a big screen for the first time this weekend, at a showing of Pirates of the Caribbean, and the groaning/ giggling reaction of the pumped crowd seemed to agree with me that this looks like the biggest-dumbest-movie-that’s-gonna-be-a-whole-lotta-fun ever made. And a geeky friend who was with me started … more…
Yea! It was an issue related to the anti-spam magic Movable Type has in play. Details and the fix are here, for those of you interested. I stumbled across this only accidentally, so other users of MT facing the same problem may be interested. Anyway, commenting should zip right along now. Let me know if … more…
I spent a bit of time over the holiday weekend fiddling around with my new widescreen HDTV — it’s this one, if you’re really interested — and now I’m officially in high-def heaven. See, I’ve got supergenerous readers. David C. sent me a box of cables good for hooking up HD goodies, and my friend … more…
I hate, hate, hate this poster! What if this guy got you pregnant? I hate to sound like one of those awful anti-sex, anti-woman prudes, but just the concept of this flick is enough to make me concede they might have a point: If the idea of “this guy” fathering your child makes you want … more…
BlogAds is running a reader-survey program, and it would be immensely helpful if you’d answer the survey questions. I run BlogAds in the top of the the column to your left, and in the center of the column to your right. I love the service for its narrowly targeted ads — these are ads that, … more…
A film of unexpected power and strange tenderness…
If you can stand a devastating indictment of how the Native Americans were thoroughly fucked over by the European settlers on their land, and you can’t bother yourself with Dee Brown’s book of the same name, then this is an excellent, searingly unsentimental second best.
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