The Counterfeiters (Die Fälscher) (review)
A damned intriguing thriller that asks more questions than it answers and leaves you dazed and upset and also a little inspired.
Month: August 2008
weekend box office: the Dark Knight is still flying high
It’ll be the work of pop-culture watchers like me to try to figure out, over the next few weeks and months, exactly what it is about The Dark Knight that is striking such a chord with audiences. Yes, ticket prices are up, which is contributing to its seeming license to print money, but still: the … more…
Stealing America: Vote by Vote (review)
If you need any more proof that a movie like *Swing Vote* is complete balderdash, with its fantasy about getting couch potatoes out to the polls as the cure-all for what ails America, then here is it.
you ‘Doctor Who’ fans are like vultures
I feel like you guys are just hovering like carrior birds, waiting for me to post something about Doctor Who so you can swoop in and instantly post a comment. I’m always astonished to come back five minutes after tossing up a DW post to find that there’s already, like, a dozen comments. It’s a … more…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Stolen Earth”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read till you’ve seen the episode! And no comments from party poopers!
screencap Friday: what the flick? #30
Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights.
trailer break: ‘Midnight Meat Train’
Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… I can see only the trailer for this flick, because even though it opens today it is not opening in New York City, and hasn’t even been screened here, to my knowledge. It does have two reviews, though, both positive, at Rotten Tomatoes, so some critics … more…
watch it: “Project Make McCain Exciting: Gray Ambition”
For those who thought that nothing could top “Stop McCain Sense”: (Technorati tags: John McCain, Gray Ambition, Colbert Challenge)
August is a red-light district
Yes, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and Swing Vote — the two movies opening wide today — both get a red light from me. Welcome to August, traditionally the worst movie month of the year. And who wants to mess with tradition?
Swing Vote (review)
You almost want to hug ‘Swing Vote,’ too, it’s so cute in how it thinks that it’s not too late for all that, that one-man-one-vote really is something akin to, well, maybe nine innings of baseball on a glorious summer’s day.
