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BlogAds is running a reader-survey program, and it would be immensely helpful if you’d answer the survey questions. I run BlogAds in the top of the the column to your left, and in the center of the column to your right. I love the service for its narrowly targeted ads — these are ads that, … more…
A film of unexpected power and strange tenderness…
If you can stand a devastating indictment of how the Native Americans were thoroughly fucked over by the European settlers on their land, and you can’t bother yourself with Dee Brown’s book of the same name, then this is an excellent, searingly unsentimental second best.
The calendar may think it’s still spring, but the summer movie season got underway with Spider-Man 3 a few weeks ago, and it revs up this weekend with Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. And no one needs a crystal ball to predict that those two flicks — as well as Harry Potter 5, … more…
It’s the 30th anniversary of Star Wars. I feel old. I was eight that summer, so I’ll be 38 this summer. Which is better than the alternative (not getting any older at all), but still. Millions of parsecs of virtual ink are being expended on the milestone, and there is much celebrating: tens of thousands … more…
*Bug* isn’t entirely as ooky-spooky as it thinks it is — the more it embraces its ethos of nervous paranoia and conspiracy-spiked secrecy, the less satisfying it becomes, as if putting a concrete name to the madness somehow makes it less mad.
No, really. I’m guessing he won’t be happy if you have Han Solo going on a rampage at the Mos Eisley cantina, shootin’ up all the lowlife alien smuggler scum who deserve it, but still: George Lucas, creator of “Star Wars,” has never hesitated to protect his intellectual property, which is why some call him … more…
Oh, thank the gods. Thank crazy Walt Disney’s head in a cryogenic freezer. Thank the army of producers and FX geeks and writers and cast and studio execs and focus-group gurus and everyone else who made this prepackaged, ready-for-synergy-marketing, lowest-common-denominator junk cinema the most cheesalicious, escape-a-riffic it could be.
I’ll admit that I stole the title of my review of Waitress, “Slice of Life Pie,” from Nathan Fillion, who stars in the film as Keri Russell’s doctor/paramour. Fillion loves the film because “it’s a slice of life, a slice of life pie,” and that’s the perfect description, so I stole it. He’s quoted in … more…
(previous ‘Jericho’ posts here and here) Seems the campaign to save Jericho — headquarted at Jericho Lives — has made the mainstream press. The Los Angeles Times yesterday weighed in with a bit of snark, first aimed at the fans: We were on to the “Lost” legion and “Heroes” worshippers, but who knew there were … more…
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