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I want to say that I understand why no one was watching Caprica: it’s a tough, complicated downer of a drama about people who are merely trying to figure out how to cope with a tough, complicated world. But so what? Must everything on our TVs be escapist?
If George Orwell and Dorothy L. Sayers collaborated on a novel, it might read like Farthing, which opens with the murder of an aristocrat at an English country house party in the late 1940s… except it’s an alternate England in which the course of World War II went rather differently.
It doesn’t look very terribly different from most of the zombie movies we’ve seen, but I’m hoping that as a weekly drama, that means it will have to focus much more on character than films usually have time for. Perhaps this will be the first zombie apocalypse soap opera…
You asked for a way to talk amongst yourselves more formally, so here it is: FlickFilosopher: The Forum! Yes, with an official exclamation point and everything. But there are a few catches…
In Red, retired super secret agents including Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, John Malkovich, and Morgan Freeman come out of retirement — unofficially — to investigate a nasty coverup at the highest levels of government of a terrible crime. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
In It’s Kind of a Funny Story, a confused and depressed teenager (Keir Gilchrist) checks himself into a hospital psych ward, where he finds friendship, with confused and depressed Zach Galifianakis, and romance, with confused and depressed Emma Roberts. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
In Secretariat, a true story of the fastest horse ever to win the Triple Crown, his owner (Diane Lane) takes huge business risks to promote and race the animal in a time — the 1970s — when women making multimillion-dollar deals was not the done thing. This flick sprang from (among other films)…
…in a nice, nonconfrontational way. I confess that I wasn’t sure whether more than a handful of rabid Daily Show/Colbert Report fans would turn up for the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear, but the Mall sure looked really packed on TV this afternoon.
And: John Landis disses Inception; Foursquare in space; Benedict Cumberbatch is a monster; more…
Some people keep using that word. I don’t think it means what they think it means.
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