The Best of the Electric Company (review)

Oh my god, I can’t believe how much of this stuff I remember from my very youngest childhood: the silhouettes pronouncing syllables that come together to form whole words! the tiny scuba guy swimming in alphabet soup looking for letters! the adventures of Letterman and his archenemy, who takes a T from “train” to make … more…

Vital (review)

Beautiful and disturbing, this Asian horror art film explores the intersection between madness and grief with a serene calm that belies the psychological turmoil under its silken surface. After a traumatic accident in which he loses his memory, a young man (Tadanobu Asano) becomes obsessed with a notebook full of sketches of a cadaver dissection, … more…

Imagine Me and You (review)

You’ve seen this before — it’s your standard “girl falls in love with someone else on her wedding day” romantic comedy. But here’s the twist: the someone else is another girl! Insufferably cutesy, this twee British flick acts like it invented lesbianism — Isn’t it adorable how women can be gay, too? — and pats … more…

stuck in a chronic hysteresis

My regular monthly article is up in the new issue of the Internet Review of Science Fiction… this one’s about movies that bend concepts of time.

still tweaking and tweaking…

Just so’s you know, I’m still futzing with the code for this new iteration of FlickFilosopher.com — like, I just noticed that the “email a friend” function wasn’t working… but it’s fixed now. If you come across anything particularly weird or funky, lemme know what kind of problem you’re having and I’ll see what I … more…

Project Runway: The Complete First Season (review)

The coarseness of spirit that every reality show evinces is a depressing reminder of the boorishness of contemporary American society: reality “entertainment” may be the 21st-century version of the game show, but the reveling that accompanies the dispatch of the losers is appalling, the suspense mined from the “who’s gonna get voted off?” dismal. And … more…

Elizabeth I: The Virgin Queen (review)

Now, this is what history should be, full of passion and intrigue and drama! Lush in every possible way — visually, emotionally, even musically — this British TV production, which aired on PBS’s Masterpiece Theater in the U.S., is an absolutely riveting retelling of the reign of the most famous daughter of Henry VIII. Anne-Marie … more…