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Sicko has been playing for a month and is now on more than 1,100 screens, officially a wide release, and reactions from viewers has been, in some instances, remarkable. FlickFilosopher.com reader Dan, in Tempe, Arizona, sent me this report from the screening he attended: The one thing that really hit me hard was after the … more…
I’ve seen this episode three or four times now, and each time, I think more highly of it. I’m not crazy about the New New York stuff for starters — it’s just not alien enough for five *billion* years in the future, but, okay: whatever.
It’s another slow week at the movies for me. I know, I know: “only” three movies in a week sounds like a lot, and it is, compared to what the average person sees (three movies in a year in the theater is closer). But I usually average more like six. So it feels like kind … more…
I’m making a special point of not missing Eureka this year, cuz it’s nice to see a show in which most of the characters are such big ol’ geeks. That’s usually a “type” — “the science nerd” — but here geeks are filling all the dramatic niches: the leader, the (sorta) villain, the criminals, the … more…
Last night The People spoke, via YouTube, directly to Democratic candidates for president, who were on the spot and required to answer. Now that the spunky little Internet video service is apparently on the verge of saving democracy and liberty and stuff, it seems like nothing to mention that, oh yeah, the first YouTube stars … more…
See it: • Zodiac [buy it]. From my review: Zodiac… build[s]… to a confrontation with evil that isn’t quite like anything we’ve seen on film before. For this is not a movie about a serial killer as we’ve come to think of them — this is not a bloody gorefest that pretends to be some … more…
Wildly hit or miss, but this season contains standalone episodes that rank with the series’ very best.
A wonder of hushed feminist horror, gently flaying modern Chinese society for its hypocrisy on the condition of women.
It’s such a relentless downer, and with such little justification except, perhaps, that ‘down’ films are more ‘genuine,’ that I couldn’t warm up to it.
This is one costume drama that franker and darker than you might expect.
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