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Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from a TV show on DVD. Guess the TV show — you don’t need to guess the episode, just the show. And if you assume it’s something I’ve said I’m watching or said I like, you’re not necessarily on the right track.
First of all, any movie that kills off the smashing Christina Hendricks in the opening 20 minutes deserves to be shot down on the basis of that alone. But that’s only the tiniest of the many cinematic crimes of Life as We Know It, which pretends to be something hip and fresh and is in fact relentlessly conventional, even retrograde.
It’s almost as relaxing to watch as it must be to experience…
Tomorrow would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday. It is a crime against humanity that he is not still with us.
Personally, I think the Sarah of late is a bit obsessed with the Doctor, in a way that’s not so appealing (or maybe I’m just jealous that he does actually show up once in a while). Though I suppose that’s easy to do when your neighborhood is getting invaded by alien nasties every week.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer the movie sucked. But some folks seem to feel that Buffy the TV series was pretty darn okay. I’m really desperately trying to keep that in mind when I think about how the American network Fox is going into production with a series based on the deeply terrible 2005 Will Smith film Hitch.
The ambitions that Mark Zuckerberg had for Facebook — at least what we see of them in The Social Network — seem so small and sad and deeply ungrand next to the reality of how life on Facebook plays out a mere few years later in the profoundly poignant Catfish.
No, wait: lemme guess what we’re meant to take from this turgid drama of small lives and smaller ambitions. ‘Some people do bad things and go to prison, and some people do bad things and live their lives out in the wide world as if they’re in prison anyway’? ‘Crazy, quietly desperate men are sad and sympathetic, and crazy, aggressively desperate women are slutty objects of derision’?
Later this month, the U.K.’s Channel 4 will air a ‘dramatized documentary’ about a fictional kidnapping of Prince Harry by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Can this film have any purpose beyond lurid sensationalism? And if that’s the only purpose it serves, is that okay?
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