movie-ku #45
Pretty much this, in poetry form… Mourn the revival DVD put to rest the Joy of mass worship
Month: October 2007
on ‘Time’ magazine’s list of great horror movies
Time magazine has named its Top 25 Horror Movies, and for a publication not exactly known as a bastion of all that is hip and cool, the list is surprisingly adventurous. (Fair warning: Time.com has organized the list in such a way that you cannot see the entire list or navigate it easily: you have … more…
adoring ‘Blade Runner: The Final Cut’ on the big screen
I love DVDs, I love my widescreen TV, I love that the movie experience in my living room just keeps getting better and better. But every once in a while — too rarely, these days — I get a reminder of what we lost when movies came home. Revivals. I’m just old enough to have … more…
movie-ku #44
Cuz it’s just ads, ads, ads everywhere these days… The preshow hard sell Mechanics of film commerce Like watching TV
banner ads appear on TV; just one sign of the new suckitude of ‘Heroes’
TV advertising just keeps getting more and more intrusive. We’ve learned to put up with bugs in the corner of the screen, bugs that dance across the screen, and now, last night on Heroes, was the first example I’ve seen of what looks a helluva lot like a Web banner ad: The damn thing is … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Martian Child,’ ‘Bee Movie,’ ‘Lions for Lambs,’ ‘Margot at the Wedding,’ more
It’s John Cusack, and that would be enough for me, because I’m one of that generation of women who has been ruined for romance forever by Say Anything…. But Martian Child [opens wide November 2] also has a geeky science-fictional bent, too: Cusack plays an SF writer, a widower, who adopts a troubled kid who … more…
movie-ku #43
And another haiku, to catch up on yesterday’s lack of one… Fire up the TiVo! It’s not on DVD yet TCM hogs it
movie-ku #42
Guess the character: Man in the mirror Wonders who is gazing back No one else is there
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Tooth and Claw”
The most interesting stuff in this episode is not the werewolf — not that the werewolf ain’t cool and all. It’s the Doctor and Rose, and how relaxed and easy with each other they suddenly are.
movie-ku #41
A second today, since I forgot to post a haiku yesterday: ‘Saw IV’: your in-flight Movie as you’re rendered to A secret prison
