movie-ku #10
After the film ends Where do the characters go? Cinema heaven?
The Jane Austen Book Club movie review: WWJD?
While movies about people clever and engaged enough to enjoy reading for fun may, in theory, be desirable, movies about people *actually reading* are less than totally enthralling.
In the Shadow of the Moon (review)
Chock full of funny, warm, human memories of the moonshot astronauts…
last chance to get in a vote for favorite review
[as previously announced here] I’m in the process of putting together a book of my favorite reviews, which I hope to have ready very soon — November, maybe. And I’d like to include a Readers’ Choice. So here’s what I’d like you to do. Send me an email with one choice for your favorite review … more…
new on DVD: ‘Bug,’ ‘As You Like It,’ ‘Evening,’ ‘Black Book,’ ‘Next,’ ‘Knocked Up,’ more
See it: • Bug [buy it]. From my review: Where Bug succeeds, it does so by inducing in you the same kind of on-edge, constant low level of terror Agnes lives with on a daily basis, the kind of ordinary distress with modern living that afflicts way too many people. Agnes drinks too much. She … more…
movie-ku #9
When the movies went Technicolor, was the world Suddenly brighter?
my week at the movies” ‘My Kid Could Paint That,’ ‘Lars and the Real Girl’ (not), ‘The Heartbreak Kid,’ ‘Sleuth,’ ‘Lake of Fire’
I’m having the worst luck with movies lately. I missed the screening of American Gangster that I was supposed to attend last week — damn MTA conspired via nonexistent buses and sloooooow subway trains to make me late for the screening, and I absolutely refuse to go into a movie after it has already started. … more…
‘Bionic Woman’ and ‘Life’: science fiction and something like it on NBC’s Wednesdays
Last week I wrote about NBC’s new Monday night lineup, and why — apart from the returning Heroes — I wasn’t too thrilled with it. NBC’s got a new Wednesday night, too, debuting tomorrow, and it’s got a whole lot more to be excited about. After the returning game show Deal or No Deal at … more…
‘Heroes’ returns!
Is it just me, or was there maybe too much stuff jammed into the Season 2 debut of Heroes (kinda like there’s way too much stuff jammed onto NBC’s official Heroes Web site)? I feel a little dizzy, and a wee bit like I’m afraid there’s gonna be a lot of cheating going on with … more…
movie-ku #8
In dishonor of idiocies like Good Luck Chuck: Cinematic math The more boobs onscreen, the more Boobs among the crowd
