Atari: Game Over documentary review: why E.T. got dumped
The truth about one of the great urban legends of videogame history is nowhere near as epic as you’d imagine: in fact, it’s rather anticlimactic.
ET The Extra-Terrestrial
Earth to Echo movie review: not good enough for me
An inoffensive time-passer for youngsters, but adult genre fans who recall the 80s classics it draws on — E.T. and The Goonies — will be bored.
2014 preview: only movies left underived
Here are the few films coming in 2014 that are not sequels, remakes, reboots, or based on a stage show, the Bible, young-adult novels, comic books, cartoons, or — someone make it stop — toy lines.
important information for visitors to Earth (and other adventures in social networking)
Stuff my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Who is the “great American filmmaker”?
Steven Spielberg might be my choice…
Doctor Who thing of the day: the Doctor meets E.T…
…who has a request…
question of the day: What is your favorite movie scene ever?
Of course it’s almost impossible to narrow it down to one scene in one movie, so feel free to pick a couple…
question of the day: Where are all the benign alien first-contact stories?
Is this just too optimistic a scenario for our anxious, paranoid times? Or is something else going on?
Attack the Block (review)
Take that, Spielberg, with your suburban alien invasions and your gentle parables about acceptance and stuff. Why don’t the aliens ever land in the ’hood, where no one will take their shit sitting down?
Super 8 movie review: all about Steve
Is it weird that the overwhelming feeling I’m left with after Super 8 is one of a nostalgic melancholy?
