movie haiku

Sit in the middle The wide screen fills your vision Outside goes away

’Tis the season for platforming releases… Now playing, two screens Next week, maybe a few more Oscar noms? Go wide!

Tuesday: the brand new DVDs arrive, and so The Unwatched pile grows

And since you didn’t get a haiku yesterday, here’s another today: A Western bar brawl Fists fly. Whiskey bottles smash Saloon panes tremble

In honor of the crash-and-burn of The Heartbreak Kid at the box office this weekend: End of the grossout? Could it be the finish of Farting as foreplay?

The horrendous way that the season finale of Doctor Who was chopped up by the Sci Fi Channel for American broadcast has me thinking about the craft of editing — and its power: One quick cut, and the Demented become sane, and The sane prosaic

I spent the day with Joaquin Phoenix today: I saw his two new films, Reservation Road and We Own the Night. And I loved them both (though Night more than Road), and I adore Joaquin, think he’s sexy as hell, and yet, it made me wonder… Why are all the tough Films about guys doing … more…

And now the first of what I hope will be a running motif: haiku incorporating movie titles… When the world gets rough I take refuge in movies Reality bites

Alien attacks Adventure, explosions too My comfort movies

Alone in the dark On a lonely film jaunt, I Befriend those onscreen