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(previous: “Pilot”/“Gnothi Seauton”) I think I officially fell in love with Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles with this episode, “The Turk.” First, a quick plot recap (a more complete one is available at Fox’s official site for the show), and then I’ll tell you why I’m loving this. Sarah, John, and their nice-Terminator bodyguard Cameron … more…
So now we know: forget Terminator III. Everything that happened in Terminator III doesn’t count. Until Terminator IV, of course, which will follow on from the events of III. But till then, consider the future changed. Just not changed enough. These two debut episodes of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles — the pilot and “Gnothi … more…
Three ordinary, modern-day, working-class veggies are dragged back in time, where they are mistaken for pirate-esque heroes who have to help a pretty green princess do something or other on the high seas.
Countless filmmakers are making a go of it without the involvement in any way of the corporate studios: not for financing, not for production, not for distribution. Here’s one of those superindie films. Hollywood scriptwriter Todd W. Langen stepped outside his creative comfort zone and set himself a filmmaking challenge: one year, one house, one … more…
I was not crying, I tell you, not crying by the end of The Bucket List. It’s just that the screening room was hot and dry and my eyes were itchy.
Smart, nicely acted, and it looks great, far sharper and more stylish than its reported $1 million budget would lead you to believe it could be.
There Will Be Blood slaps you in the face. It’s Joe Pesci in Goodfellas raging, “Do I amuse you? Do I entertain you?” in that way that suggests that it could not give two figs what you think of it.
Do not believe those TV ads that make this look like the goofy romantic lark of the holiday season. This is not a comedy, and it is no lark.
It’s one of those “fundamental interconnectedness of all things” things. Or a good-news, bad-news joke. Or an admonition to be careful what you wish for.
What if we all stopped shopping? Not for the basic necessities, obviously, but what if we stopped buying all the useless gadgets and made-in-China junk that we don’t need, that pushes us deeper into debt, that fails to satisfy the inarticulate cravings that send us to the mall on a recreational buying binge in the first place?
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