The Crazies (review)
Surprisingly thoughtful — yet not quite thoughtful enough…
disaster
Legion (review)
Forget all that nonsense about fending off evil spirits with Bibles and holy water and garlic or whatever. Automatic weapons is what you need.
The Book of Eli (review)
Denzel was carrying the fire, right, Papa? Yes. The book was the fire? Yes. No. The boy wouldnt understand.
Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (review)
They did keep telling us, all through the four seasons of *Battlestar Galactica,* that the Cylons had ‘a plan,’ but we never really got the details. Sure, we assumed that the plan was to destroy humanity — that much was obvious — but was there more to it?
Avatar movie review: biological diplomacy
The closest I will ever come to visiting another planet, and what an exhilarating trip.
The Road (review)
This is a really great film — truly great in the classical sense of the world, as grand as our most terrible fears and as wild as our most outlandish hopes and as intimate as being alive can be.
2012 (review)
It’s kind of awesome, the film’s self-involvement. This isn’t really a movie: it’s more director/FX-mad wannabe supervillain Roland Emmerich calling out every other disaster film that has ever come before… including his own. Aliens blowing up the Empire State Builder? What piker came up with that?
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs movie review: special sauce
Treats the charming nonsense of food falling from the sky like weather with exactly the sort of bouyant nimbleness it deserves…
9 (review)
Imagine if Jules Verne wrote a movie for Pixar, if that steampunk visionary looked forward from his perch in the late Victorian age to a Great War in his near future that didn’t pause for twenty years to let everyone to catch their breath but instead went apocalyptic.
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “Exit Wounds”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
