movie-ku #39
Guess the movie character! (Starting you off with an easy one…) Straight outta Joisey More ways than one a rock star He’s the uber geek
Creature Comforts America: The Complete First Season (review)
Monotonous, repetitious… highlights the ordinary in the most banal way possible…
The Sarah Silverman Program: Season One (review)
Her schtick seems deliberately calculated to induce paroxysms of nerdy joy in a specifically juvenile segment of the male audience…
Art Show Down (review)
The goofy attitude and quick play is momentarily diverting, but the implied satire on the contemporary art market and artist subculture is one-dimensional, at best.
Jericho: The First Season (review)
The sprawling cast is all-Americana; the sprawling themes come as a direct slap in the face to the terrifying road America off the tube is heading down, a world of repealed civil liberties and constricted freedoms…
Safe Harbour (review)
Who knew that finding “the courage to love again” could be so damn boring?
Finishing the Game (review)
There’s little intriguing or surprising here…
movie-ku #38
More TV-ku: Oh for satellite BBC thrills with great tube I must ship o’erseas
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Greeks Bearing Gifts”
Man, this is a bleak show. Not bleak about how the universe is out to get poor (almost) defenseless planet Earth or anything like that. Bleak about people. About how damaged we all are, even the healthiest of us, and about how hard it is to find people we can at least be comfortably damaged with.
“Hotel Chevalier” joins ‘The Darjeeling Limited’ in wide release, but some fans aren’t happy
If you saw The Darjeeling Limited at a film festival, you also had the opportunity to see Wes Anderson’s prequel short, “Hotel Chevalier,” which introduces Jason Schwartzman’s Darjeeling character and the neuroses he’s dealing with in the longer film, and which has all the fanboys in a tizzy because it features Natalie Portman’s naked butt. … more…
