Year: 2007

watch it: “Urban Art on Spring Street”

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One of the presenters at the Mead discussion I mentioned yesterday was Jenny Douglas, cocreator and coordinator of KarmaTube, an online collection of short videos culled from YouTube that encourages you to not just enjoy cool and interesting videos but to act on them, to “be the change” the videos inspire. I’ll be using KarmaTube … more…

watch it: “The Machine Is Us/ing Us”

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I spent part of Saturday and all of Sunday at the American Museum of Natural History here in NYC at the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, which focuses on films of anthropological interest. It turns out, though, that the program that affected me the most was not a movie at all but a discussion … more…

my week at the movies: ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Battlestar Galactica: Razor,’ ‘Persepolis,’ ‘Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,’ ‘Enchanted,’ ‘The Savages,’ ‘August Rush’

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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…

I keep walking back into the ‘Moonlight’

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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

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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

Santa Claus is coming to your living room

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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…