Promised Land (review)
At every turn, and via a simple narrative that is so effortless it barely feels constructed at all, nothing here is quite what it seems, and everything is even more than what it is.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers’ unpleasant ideas about criticism (and other adventures in social networking)
What my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
October 16: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but there’s all this vengeance to be doled out and all those injustices to be put right. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, … more…
Where the Wild Things Are (review)
Will there be a bigger disappointment for me this year than Spike Jonze’s *Where the Wild Things Are*? Gosh, I hope not: I’m not sure my heart could take it.
my week at the movies: ‘Away We Go,’ ‘Food, Inc.,’ ‘Lovely by Surprise,’ ‘My Life in Ruins,’ ‘Whatever Works’ (plus ‘Up’)
BUMPED UP to say that I’ve addded another movie to my schedule this week: Blood: The Last Vampire (opens in the U.S. in July, and in the U.K. on June 19; it didn’t open last week as I had indicated in an earlier post) — it’s an English-language telling of a Japanese Buffy. I didn’t … more…
trailer break: ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ teaser
Take a break from work: watch a trailer… This must be one of the great trailers of all time. Just that tease in the beginning, showing us mere glimpses of the monster, the shadow and the silhouette of his horned head. And then it speaks! I didn’t have any idea what the monsters should sound … more…
