Month: September 2007

my week at the movies: ‘The Jane Austen Book Club,’ ‘Into the Wild,’ ‘The Brave One,’ ‘In the Valley of Elah,’ ‘Feast of Love’

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I loved Jon Krakauer’s nonfiction book Into the Wild, about a privileged young American man who was precisely the wrong combination of book-smart and real-world-naive who pulled a Thoreau and withdrew from the modern world in remote mountain Alaska. Now, Sean Penn has made Into the Wild, the movie [opens wide September 21], starring the … more…

hilarious: MySpacer hates me, won’t say why

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Gotta love the MySpace generation. A 21-year-old male who goes by the unlikely nom de MySpace of “thedeadlyrhythm” doesn’t like my review of the new Kevin Bacon revenge wet dream Death Sentence. Thedeadlyrhythm won’t say what’s wrong with it. Apparently, it’s just bad. He writes: Apologies to my friends for not going with them today … more…

‘Doctor Who’: “The Girl in the Fireplace” wins Hugo

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I’m hardly surprised: “The Girl in the Fireplace,” from last season’s Doctor Who, won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) at Worldcon in Japan last night. It was up against two other Whos: “Army of Ghosts/Doomsday” and “School Reunion” (as well as episodes of something called Battlestar Galactica and some other series, Stargate … more…