movie-ku #16
Alone in the dark On a lonely film jaunt, I Befriend those onscreen
should a movie critic be America’s top pundit?
Forbes.com has rated the pundits, and guess who comes out on top? While the results show that plenty of cable talking heads like Bill O’Reilly, Lou Dobbs and Geraldo Rivera score highly, the most powerful pundit in America is veteran film critic Roger Ebert, who appeals to 70% of the demographic and whose long career … more…
my week at the movies: ‘We Own the Night,’ ‘American Gangster,’ ‘The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising,’ ‘Reservation Road,’ ‘Redacted’
I’m swamped with other stuff at the moment, so I could be seeing a lot more movies than I am this week. But there’s some choice stuff here. Like We Own the Night [opens wide October 12], written and directed by James Gray, who made the underappreciated The Yards. I’m getting a little bit of … more…
movie-ku #15
October the first Movies start getting heavy “Gimme an Oscar!”
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Cyberwoman” (aka “The Trouble With Lisa”)
See, this is what happens when you treat the tea boy like, well, he’s the tea boy. On the other hand, when your girlfriend gets mutated into a sexy-metal-bikini-wearing alien cyborg, sometimes you just have to let her go.
movie-ku #14
Since you didn’t get a haiku yesterday, here’s another today… FBI warning Can’t skip it, can’t fast-forward You can rip it, though
movie-ku #13
Region-free player Cheap! Then I drop hundreds to Amazon UK
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Sound of Drums”
“The Master is Prime Minister of Great Britain… the Master and his wife?” Lucy is such a wonderful conundrum. She clearly knows her husband is up to a whole bunch of No Good, and is cool with that, but does she know the real deal with him? Does she know he’s an alien? Or does she lie in bed with him at night and wonder about that strange echo in his heartbeat?
movie-ku #12
Card slips in kiosk Pick a movie, pick a time Too late! It’s sold out
opening wide today: ‘The Kingdom,’ ‘The Game Plan,’ ‘Feast of Love,’ ‘In the Valley of Elah’
The Kingdom An elite FBI team — Sydney Bristow and Ray Charles among them — are sent to Saudi Arabia to find a killer. Oddly enough, their target isn’t Osama Bin Laden. So they’re sure to find whom they’re looking for. (my review is here) The Game Plan A pro football player (The Rock) gets … more…
