Something Like Happiness (review)

The movie of the month for November 2006 from Film Movement — the DVD subscription club that introduces viewers to indies and foreign films we’re unlikely to see anywhere outside of festivals; they’re available to the general public a year later — this Czech production is lovely in its harried, hard-won emotion and bitter eccentricity. … more…

movie-ku #39

Guess the movie character! (Starting you off with an easy one…) Straight outta Joisey More ways than one a rock star He’s the uber geek

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themes come as a direct slap in the face to the terrifying road America off the tube is heading down, a world of repealed civil liberties and constricted freedoms…

‘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.