Juno (review)
One of my fellow critics called ‘Juno’ ‘Knocked Up’ lite. Buzz on the Net wonders whether this is a chick flick, with all the accompanying baggage of inferiority and silly, frilly irrelevance that loaded phrase carries.
movie-ku #91
Cuz it seems like I’m never gonna get through the pile of awards screeners from the studios I absolutely must, must see before I finalize my top 10 list… Only critics feel That two hundred fifty flicks Per year ain’t enough
watch it: “De Duva”
Bergman parody:
movie-ku #90
Oh the weather outside is frightful… Too cold and snowy To venture out to the ’plex. To the Netflix pile!
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Rise of the Cybermen”/“The Age of Steel”
It’s probably not in the least bit surprising that the genre of the Information Revolution — science fiction — is the one that does satire on the tentacly power of the corporation so well.
watch it: “Sufjan Stevens – Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland”
Beautifully atmospheric fan music video for a Sufjan Stevens song shot with a Fisher Price PXL 2000 Pixel-vision toy videocam. By artist Jym Davis. Another via my brother Ken. (Technorati tags: Sufjan Stevens, Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland)
movie-ku #89
Yer basic heist movie: Act I: Steal the cash Act II: Fight over the cash Act III: To the beach!
movie-ku #88
The WGA strike seems endless… When the words run out And the scripts dry up, is it Back to silent film?
opening wide today: ‘I Am Legend,’ ‘Alvin and the Chipmunks,’ ‘The Perfect Holiday’
I Am Legend Wil Smith is alone on Manhattan Island — and maybe the planet — after a virulent plague wipes out humanity. Scariest thing about New York after the apocalypse? He still can’t get tickets to The Lion King on Broadway. (my review) Alvin and the Chipmunks A songwriter in Los Angeles adopts three … more…
watch it: “Superman & Batman: The Movie”
In I Am Legend, when Will Smith is driving around Times Square early in the film, you can see in the background a billboard that contains the logos of both Batman and Superman. Turns out that Warner Bros. — which is also responsible for Legend — has been kicking around the idea of getting these … more…
