computer problems this morning
I think my hard drive might be dying. Might have to spring for a new laptop. Seems I can’t catch a break these days…
Year: 2009
watch it: “Townhalls Gone Wild — THE COMMERCIAL”
From DailyKos TV, a takedown of the astroturfy, Big Health-incited disruption of the health-insurance-reform process: via Americablog
my week at the movies: ‘Inglourious Basterds,’ ‘District 9’ (again), ‘9,’ ‘Shorts,’ ‘Bandslam,’ ‘Fifty Dead Men Walking,’ ‘The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,’ ‘Ponyo,’ ‘Paper Heart’ (maybe)
Oh my, that’s a nasty poster, ain’t it? Inglourious Basterds (opens in the U.K. on August 19, and in the U.S. on August 21) is gonna be even more brutal than the trailer makes it look, I think. The question is whether Quentin Tarantino gets the balance of gore and humor right… I’m gonna attend … more…
trailer break: ‘Shorts’
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… If it’s Robert Rodriguez, it’s sure to feature tons of wacky greenscreen stuff: kids bouncing off pillows the size of planets to escape Day-glo monsters or somesuch. If Rodriguez can whip it on his Mac, he can slap a goofy kid into it and call it a … more…
question of the day: Is Michael Bay so incredibly awesome?
Benjamin Kerstein in the New Ledger is so not a fan of everyone who’s so not a fan of Michael Bay: Everyone who writes about movies is now apparently required to hate Michael Bay. The ex-director of commercials and music videos, who has made some of the most successful films of the last decade—Bad Boys, … more…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Parting of the Ways”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
retro trailer: ‘The Breakfast Club’
Take a look back at an old trailer… (Didn’t have time to post one of these yesterday, so here ya go now, in honor of John Hughes.) Maybe it’s just that I’m old now, but today’s movies for teens about teens just don’t feel the same. The Breakfast Club is available on DVD in Region … more…
server issues, again, and a question for the technically minded
If I’m guessing correctly — based on the last time a comment was posted last night and the kind of traffic I might have expected on an early Sunday morning — FlickFilosopher.com was down again for perhaps as long as 12 hours, up until just a few minutes ago. If you tried to load the … more…
I Sell the Dead (review)
If it were a 30-minute comic episode of *The Twilight Zone,* this ambitious low-budget flick might not have overstayed its welcome, but dragged out to three times that running time, it cannot help but be more miss than hit.
watch it: the 8/8/09 weekly address from President Barack Obama
I think they thought things were looking better in 1930, too, and, you know, not so much. Hope that’s not the case now, that we’re just seeing the eye of the storm…
