Times and Winds (Bes vakit) (review)
An elegy for the end of childhood and the loss of innocence, this striking Turkish movie was winner of the Best Film prize at the Istanbul Film Festival…
Month: July 2008
The Dark Knight movie review: dim hope
Everything about this is wrong.
the oh-no! DVD of the week: ‘Champions of Faith: Baseball Edition’
Because Jesus always hates the other team, and makes them fumble.
bias update
obsession: still Doctor Who (most recent episode blogging: “Forest of the Dead”, plus we’re sobbing over “Journey’s End” here) boyfriend: David Tennant as the Doctor (see my summer of Tennant and Hamlet) psyched: The X-Files: I Want to Believe (because I do want to believe) dreading: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (what, the … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Step Brothers,’ ‘Mamma Mia!,’ ‘Bottle Shock,’ ‘The Perfect Game,’ ‘American Teen’
Oh my god. I want to be dreading Step Brothers [opens wide July 25], because it looks so idiotic, and yet I can’t, because it’s from the same guys who did Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, and that turned out, all appearances to the contrary, to be so sublime. The trailer is pretty … more…
freakin’ Fandango…
…always makes my browser crash. *grr*
weekend box office: Hellboy smash
You just can’t go wrong at the multiplex with a superhero movie, even if it’s not very good. And by “you,” I mean the studios, of course — you the moviegoer might be disappointed, but they’re already got your money at that point. Take a look at the superearnings of the top five this past … more…
why didn’t someone tell me…
…that the monthly archive thingie wasn’t updating properly? I just went to use it, and discovered that “July 2008” wasn’t showing up in the dropdown. The index for this month exists, it’s just that a link wasn’t appearing on the menu. Does this mean that no one is using those monthly archives, or that people … more…
Meet Dave (review)
I walked out of *Meet Dave*…
lemme know what you think of ShareThis
UPDATE: The ShareThis widget seemed to be slowing down the site for people other than me, so I’ve switched to trying out AddThis, which unfortunately does not have an email feature, but the site-slowdown has disappeared with the removal of ShareThis, so that’s a good thing. The experiment continues. You may have noticed the new … more…
