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Beowulf The ur action hero gets a brand-new CGI makeover. I wish they hadn’t thrown in the Uzis, and the scene in the strip club makes me suspect they didn’t adhere closely to the original medieval poem. (my review is here) Love in the Time of Cholera A man in 19th-century South America pines for … more…
Its straightforward simplicity aims it squarely at the kiddies and the kiddies alone, but that’s okay — few films intended for children these days are this gentle, this plainly decent.
With so many pieces of the puzzle seemingly so perfect, how could anything go wrong?
It’s been ages since I’ve been in a video rental store, but this happened to me more than once: Rows and rows of discs Glitter winkingly at me I go home alone
Another of the presenters at the Mead discussion I’ve been talking about was Sameer Padania, manager of The Hub, a new project of Witness, the international human rights organization, that supports the strategic use of video to address human rights abuses online and offline. I’ll be using The Hub as one of the sources for … more…
Here’s the thing about Joel and Ethan Coen: they can make anything, absolutely anything, intensely profound and deeply weird — and weirdly deep — and cruelly magnificent all at the same time.
This example of the latest ‘advance’ in animation technology is sterile, synthetic, almost completely unengaging on a human level. It’s animated but inanimate.
See it: • Ocean’s Thirteen [buy it]. From my review: Of course, much of the pleasure of O13 comes in watching Danny and his pals worm their way around Bank’s countermeasures, but there is also some bittersweet and melancholy to-do about how this town is changing and how little room there is left in it … more…
Pen scratched to page or Fingers typing on keyboard Ignites the magic
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