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There are so many movies opening this autumn, it exhausts me just thinking about it. Thirteen movies open this weekend, eight on each of the following weekends. Thirty-nine movies are opening in October. This is insane. It’s almost as if the studios are setting up at least some of these movies to fail. And it … more…
Sorry, but reality is making unreasonable demands, and has been for days. Tomorrow, hopefully, I really should get around to it. I think someone should send Captain Jack Harkness around to investigate me. You know, just to make sure I haven’t been taken over by an alien or anything.
I’ve seen him, and he’s like fire and ice and rage. He’s like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun. He’s ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe. And… he’s wonderful.
Today’s the day: on September 8, 1997, I posted my first movie review on the Internet. The first post in my 10-year celebration, which I started a year ago today, has some history of the site, if you’re interested. I spent the last year migrating reviews from the old design into the blog format, which … more…
I’m off to an all-day wedding celebration for my friend Lori, so no blogging today. But I did want to alert you to the debut of the Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood on BBC America tonight — I’ll be blogging about the show starting tomorrow, and every Sunday (or so) of its 13-episode run. I dunno … more…
3:10 to Yuma Christian Bale and Russell Crowe saddle up in the Old West. Ironic, ain’t it, that we’re reduced to importing all-American Marlboro Men from Wales and New Zealand? All overseas outsouring should be this rugged and manly. (my review is here) Shoot ’Em Up They’re not kidding with that title. Seriously: cartoonish gunplay … more…
“Arnold Furious” at 411.mania.com, who says — drum roll, please: I’d like to choke that bitch MaryAnn Johanson for giving It’s a Wonderful Life the thumbs down. I’m gonna keep highlighting the particular violent vehemence directed toward a woman with an opinion as I come across examples directed toward me, because I think it’s important … more…
This is inventive and exciting, a grip-the-armrests, hold-your-breath reinvigorating of the Western movie…
A gloriously deranged orgy of Bugs Bunny-style action and nonstop gunplay.
See it: • The Astronaut Farmer [buy it]. From my review: To say that they don’t make movies like this anymore — splendidly, quietly angry in a folksy, old-fashioned kind of way — is to prove its point, that we seem to have lost something in the American spirit in our era of overlording corporatism … more…
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