movie-ku #57
Part of a series: The perfect runtime: Coen Brothers noir thriller? Two hours six minutes
Month: November 2007
my week at the movies: ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica: Razor,’ ‘Persepolis,’ ‘Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,’ ‘Enchanted,’ ‘The Savages,’ ‘August Rush’
I’ve got a somewhat less crazy week this week, so I should be able to catch up with my Doctor Who and Torchwood blogging… It’s the movie I’m officially Dreading at the moment: Robert Zemeckis’s Beowulf [opens November 16]. I used to really like Zemeckis’s stuff, back in the day of Back to the Future … more…
non sequitur of the day!
You people are mindless 80s dupes! So says “Orson” about all of us who like Michael Clayton. Wish I knew what he meant…
I keep walking back into the ‘Moonlight’
I didn’t think it would happen, but Moonlight, CBS’s Friday night vampire drama, has grown on me. I’m not madly in love with it, and it seems unlikely that it’ll ever be a show that I make an appointment to watch — and in fact I let a month’s worth of episodes pile up in … more…
movie-ku #56
In honor of my weekend at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival… Utter exhaustion Fest skeds of back-to-back flicks Film, film, film, film, film
movie-ku #55
Like Office Space, which just wrapped on Comedy Central… Middle of the night When the tube always brings a Flick I can’t not watch
Santa Claus is coming to your living room
Need another dose of the jolly old elf after Paul Giamatti’s in Fred Claus? The thing is, for all the many many many many many movies about Christmas, there aren’t all that many that are actually about the man himself. But there are a few: The Santa Clause and The Santa Clause 2: Tim Allen … more…
finished ‘Life on Mars’
Head exploding in slow motion. I feel like I need to throw up. And for some reason, I can’t stop crying. Must blog about the show — after I watch it all again just to try to get my head around it — but it’s gonna be tough to talk about it without spoiling it … more…
movie-ku #54
Ever feel like you simply cannot decide what to watch? Paralyzed by choice Too many favorite flicks Channel surf instead
Lars and the Real Girl (review)
*Ooo, ick* was my reaction when I first heard about *Lars and the Real Girl.* Because I had, unfortunately, heard about Real Dolls, the anatomically correct sex toys that are as lifelike as silicone can be. Which means they look like corpses. And the thought of a movie about a lonely guy who buys one of them and pretends it’s his girlfriend? No. No no no no.
