movie-ku #29
In honor of truly indie filmmakers like Brian Flemming (whom I mentioned recently here): Digital dreaming Write a screenplay, buy a cam Discs sell cheap online
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Countrycide”
I’m probably in the minority on this, but I like that there turned out to be no psychopathic alien influence at work here. I like that ‘Torchwood’ isn’t pretending that you have to leave the planet or import creatures from outer space in order to find terrible things.
is ‘Michael Clayton’ too clever for its own good?
Overseen at the IMDB user forums for the film Michael Clayton (my review): But does it have to come off so smart? I feel it kind of alienates the common viewer. Yeah! Why don’t more movies pander to the idiot demographic? (Technorati tags: Michael Clayton)
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Christmas Invasion”
Maybe it seems silly, at first glance, to be discussing the David Tennant episodes in reverse order of season — I’ve just wrapped up the “Harold Saxon” arc, and here we are back in the “Torchwood” arc, Tennant’s first season and Billie Piper’s last. But I’m glad I did it this way, because if I’d done it the other way around…
movie-ku #28
Rotten tomatoes Lobbed across the Net’s ether Thumbs are so Twen Cen
movie-ku #27
Reporter’s notebook Critics scribble in the dark Notes that can’t be read
opening wide today: ‘We Own the Night,’ ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ ‘Michael Clayton,’ ‘The Final Season,’ ‘Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married,’ ‘Across the Universe’
We Own the Night That thin line between cops and criminals goes right down the middle between “brothers” Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg. They’re fighting over drugs and clubs in 80s New York now, but I’m looking forward to their brawl over Best Supporting Oscar nods come January. (my review is here) Elizabeth: The Golden … more…
We Own the Night (review)
So drenched in raw, ineffable male anger and love, so perfectly pitched, that it howls with authenticity.
Michael Clayton (review)
You sell out and you sell out and you sell out until you can’t do it anymore. And that’s when things gets interesting.
movie-ku #26
Star wars on weekends Who will be the biggest draw? Monday’s numbers loom
