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…
movie-ku #11
Film flaps round the reel White screen of interruption Projectionist naps
The Kingdom (review)
We bring a lot of baggage with us into movies: preconceptions about certain actors, ideas about the kinds of events depicted. In the case of ‘The Kingdom,’ we’ve got certain expectations regarding, say, Jennifer Garner’s tough-gal persona, and certain expectations regarding what should be done about Middle Eastern terrorists who kill Americans, and certain expectations about how big, loud, Hollywood action movies will deal with throwing these things together.
previewing CBS’s ‘Moonlight’
There’s a lot of genre stuff on TV this fall, and what would genre TV be without a gloomy, angst-ridden vampire private detective? We don’t have to ponder that this season, because there’s Moonlight, debuting tomorrow night on CBS at 9pm Eastern. It woulda been pretty darn funny if this was like Moonlighting with bloodsuckers … more…
‘Superhero!’ — like ‘Scary Movie’ with capes
It’s enough to ruin your whole day. You’re zipping through the afternoon perfectly ignorant of the depths of depravity to which humanity can descend, and then it lands in your email inbox: a press release, though it’s more like a grenade. The deal? The Weinstein brothers are continuing their rampage through cinema with a new … more…
older than Google…
Today is Google‘s ninth birthday. That means that FlickFilosopher.com is a year older than Google. Why do I feel like saying something on the Net is “older than Google” is like saying someone is “older than God”?
