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Take a break from work: watch a trailer… I saw this film a few weeks ago and I’m still trying to figure out whether I like it or not. That’s a good thing: I like being confounded like that. Review soon, I hope… Valhalla Rising is now playing in limited release in the U.S., and … more…
In my day, the great debate was “Star Wars or Star Trek”? Today it appears to be “Harry Potter or Twilight”? (Openminded and ecumenical fans have always known that there was no need to choose, that there is always plenty of passion to spread around.) The half-not-kidding jokes about Your Favorite TV Show or Movie … more…
Perhaps the most classic of classic ads:
I don’t have a real sense of how many serious Mad Men fans there are here. If I posted some reactions to Mad Men on an episode-by-episode basis, is this something a bunch of people here would be interested in? Is there a cadre of readers here who would like to discuss Mad Men after … more…
This is a month old, but still worth getting to. In mid June, Stephen Fry delivered an address on the state of British television at a BAFTA event; the full text of Fry’s address is here, and it is a fascinating read. In it, he reminisces about the TV of his childhood — “When I … more…
Outright lies are a valuable part of our national discourse.
Guardian, you had me at your headline: Sherlock Holmes is back… sending texts and using nicotine patches I had a similar idea years ago — I wanted to put Sherlock Holmes in New York’s East Village in the early 1990s, with bike messengers as the Baker Street Irregulars and faxes instead of telegrams — and … more…
…about the Internet upheaval over Inception: If I had to issue a one-sentence manifesto for film criticism, it would be this: Any movie worth seeing is worth arguing about, and any movie worth arguing about is worth seeing. It really is as simple as that.
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… Gonna have to call bullshit on this. A 40-year-old man is romantically partnered with a 30-year-old woman in a movie, and Hollywood doesn’t utter a peep of acknowledgement about the age difference, never mind make it the purpose of the entire movie. Hell, movies don’t acknowledge age … more…
Comic Con starts today in San Diego. I’ve never attended a Comic Con — well, apart from the upstart New York one a couple years back — it looks as if perhaps I may never get to experience San Diego Comic Con in the form that made it legendary in the first place. At least … more…
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