movie-ku #43
And another haiku, to catch up on yesterday’s lack of one… Fire up the TiVo! It’s not on DVD yet TCM hogs it
movie-ku #42
Guess the character: Man in the mirror Wonders who is gazing back No one else is there
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Tooth and Claw”
The most interesting stuff in this episode is not the werewolf — not that the werewolf ain’t cool and all. It’s the Doctor and Rose, and how relaxed and easy with each other they suddenly are.
movie-ku #41
A second today, since I forgot to post a haiku yesterday: ‘Saw IV’: your in-flight Movie as you’re rendered to A secret prison
movie-ku #40
Because I’m seeing this tonight, and will probably buy the new DVD box set when it’s released in December: ‘Blade Runner’’s new cut An advance of art on film? Or DVD ad?
Slipstream (review)
This is a tough one to talk about. On the one hand, it’s failure, maybe even a disaster. On the other hand, it’s so fascinating a failure that it’s worth seeing…
opening wide today: ‘Saw IV,’ ‘Dan in Real Life,’ ‘The Darjeeling Limited’
Saw IV The torture-porn franchise is back for its fourth outing, featuring yet more terrible young actors you’ve never heard of enduring bodily mutilation. Is beating a dead horse considered “cruel and unusual” punishment? (not screened for critics) Dan in Real Life Steve Carell is unlucky in love… again, plus he’s stuck with Dane Cook … more…
Dan in Real Life movie review: knocked down
If you can manage to get through Dan in Real Life without falling madly in love with both Juliette Binoche and Steve Carell, then you’re a better man than I am, Charlie Brown.
ode to Keith Olbermann
Keith wasn’t on last night. Oh, Countdown, MSNBC’s only show worth watching, was on, but no Keith. Who the hell does he think he is, anyway? Just because he had the chance to go to some silly baseball game — apparently it was an important one or something — we should be left Keithless for … more…
Something Like Happiness (review)
The movie of the month for November 2006 from Film Movement — the DVD subscription club that introduces viewers to indies and foreign films we’re unlikely to see anywhere outside of festivals; they’re available to the general public a year later — this Czech production is lovely in its harried, hard-won emotion and bitter eccentricity. … more…
