movie-ku #3
Piles of DVDs Slide across the slip’ry floor Movies at my feet
‘Heroes’ gets some dull new company on Mondays with ‘Chuck’ and ‘Journeyman’
Next week is the big week, or so the TV networks would like us to believe: a ton of new shows will be debuting, and a ton returning shows will be, well, returning. It feels kinda anticlimactic to me — there’s been a lot of great stuff on the cable nets this summer (Doctor Who, … more…
Jekyll (review)
Half deeply disturbing and ooky, half goofy and cheesy in the most deliciously pulpy way, this is TV of a caliber that we rarely get to enjoy on American television…
movie-ku #2
Crisp autumn blows in Bringing high-minded fil-um The popcorn still hot
is Warner Bros. spearing ‘10,000 B.C.’ months before it opens?
If we’ve just wrapped up the summer season of dumb movies, it must be time to start talking about the next one. And sure enough, the spies at Ain’t It Cool News have been sneaking into test screenings of next spring’s bit of nonsense from Roland Emmerich, 10,000 B.C., scheduled to open in March. And … more…
movie-ku #1
I’ve been brainstorming for ideas for new content for FlickFilosopher.com, particularly something to replace the daily 10-year-retrospective postings that have supplied regular content (apart from reviews, of course) for most the last year. One of the ideas that struck me was to write a daily haiku about The Movies, and that’s what I’m gonna do … more…
my week at the movies: ‘Michael Clayton,’ ‘The Kingdom’, ‘The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford,’ ‘American Gangster,’ ‘In the Shadow of the Moon,’ ‘Across the Universe,’ ‘Good Luck Chuck’
I initially misread the poster for Michael Clayton [opens limited October 5; expands wide October 12] — I thought it said “The truth can’t be trusted.” Which could be a tagline for a fascinating movie, too. I don’t know much about the flick except that it’s George Clooney playing a corporate lawyer, a “fixer,” who … more…
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Day One”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read if you haven’t seen the episode!
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “Blink”
(intro to my Who blogging, please read before commenting / previous: Episode 9: “The Family of Blood”) Apart from the obvious issue of there not being enough David Tennant this time around, this has got to be one of the single most brilliant episodes of any TV science fiction show ever. It’s mind-bending even grading … more…
opening wide today: ‘The Brave One,’ ‘Dragon Wars,’ ‘Mr. Woodcock’
The Brave One Jodie’s got a gun. Jodie’s got a gun. What did New York City do? What did it put her through? It jacked the little bitty baby, the place has got to be insane. But now that Jodie’s got a gun, it ain’t never gonna be the same. (my review is here) Dragon … more…
