Jericho: The First Season (review)
The sprawling cast is all-Americana; the sprawling themes come as a direct slap in the face to the terrifying road America off the tube is heading down, a world of repealed civil liberties and constricted freedoms…
Month: October 2007
Safe Harbour (review)
Who knew that finding “the courage to love again” could be so damn boring?
Finishing the Game (review)
There’s little intriguing or surprising here…
movie-ku #38
More TV-ku: Oh for satellite BBC thrills with great tube I must ship o’erseas
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Greeks Bearing Gifts”
Man, this is a bleak show. Not bleak about how the universe is out to get poor (almost) defenseless planet Earth or anything like that. Bleak about people. About how damaged we all are, even the healthiest of us, and about how hard it is to find people we can at least be comfortably damaged with.
“Hotel Chevalier” joins ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ in wide release, but some fans aren’t happy
If you saw The Darjeeling Limited at a film festival, you also had the opportunity to see Wes Anderson’s prequel short, “Hotel Chevalier,” which introduces Jason Schwartzman’s Darjeeling character and the neuroses he’s dealing with in the longer film, and which has all the fanboys in a tizzy because it features Natalie Portman’s naked butt. … more…
new on DVD: ‘Home of the Brave,’ ‘Alive Day Memories: Home From Iraq,’ ‘Meet the Robinsons,’ ‘Fido,’ ‘Mr. Brooks’
See it: • Home of the Brave [buy it]. From my review: Sure, it’s earnest — sure, it’s melodramatic. Yup, it’s just barely this side of being a made-for-Lifetime TV soaper. But there’s a mesmerizing power to this little film that comes from its sheer un-told-ness, from its right-now immediacy. There’s none of the irony … more…
recap of this week’s episode of ‘Heroes’
Check out my recap of the Heroes episode “Fight or Flight,” which aired last night, over at Film.com. Comments welcome here.
movie-ku #37
Second in a series of British TV-ku… In London: theatre Film, TV, all in one place. Crossover dazzles
my week at the movies: ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,’ ‘This Christmas,’ ‘Dan in Real Life,’ ‘Slipstream,’ ‘War/Dance,’ ‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’
I have this friend who looks a lot like Philip Seymour Hoffman. My friend used to live in NYC but he moved to L.A. a few years back, and since he’s been known to pop back into town unannounced. And more than once I’ve been walking down a Manhattan street and caught a glimpse of … more…
