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
Little Rock Central High: 50 Years Later (review)
Filmmakers and Little Rock natives Brent and Craig Renaud explore the de facto segregation that still divides the school, where remedial classes are full of black students who can’t read and AP college-prep courses are dominated by whites, despite the fact that whites make up a minority of the overall student population.
The Catherine Tate Show: The Complete First Season (review)
I used to love the old Tracey Ullman show, but I don’t think even she, goddess of comedy, quite approached the astonishing range of ingenious characters the way that her heir apparent, Catherine Tate, does.
Count Dracula (review)
Slow moving to modern eyes, which makes it a big of a slog.
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Ghost Machine”
I’m nearly done watching all of the first season of ‘Torchwood’ — just one more episode to go — and when I look back at this episode, it feels to me like the show is still treading water here while it tries to figure out what it’s got on its hands. Compared to what’s to come later in the season, this is nothin’.
bias alert!: still consumed by ‘Doctor Who,’ psyched for ‘We Own the Night,’ dreadin’ ‘The Heartbreak Kid,’ hatin’ Dan Fogler
‘Doctor Who’ continues to keep me obsessed, but with it ending soon, ‘Torchwood’ is threatening to take over. Stay tuned…
