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?
ET The Extra-Terrestrial
question of the day: What is the single most powerful moment ever in cinematic history?
I might pick the end of The Usual Suspects. Or the “you’re getting on that plane” bit in Casablanca. Or… Well, there’s a lot of them, probably. It would be tough to pick a single one…
watch it: 1980s Atari Christmas E.T. commercial
I fight it rather disturbing to think about E.T. masquerading as Santa. I also wonder if a being from a culture that has mastered intersteller travel would find the Atari 2600 game system rather primitive.
question of the day: Which fictional aliens are the nicest?
Skyline today brings us yet another invasion by aliens who hate us. I suppose nice aliens won’t invade us in dramatic ways that require millions of dollars in special FX to depict, but still: couldn’t we get overrun just once in a cinematic while by little green men who want to hug us until we are agreeably contented?
question of the day: What is the greatest children’s film of all time?
The U.K.’s *Radio Times* — the British equivalent of the U.S.’s *TV Guide* — polled its readers to determine the best movies for kids ever made…
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Lodger”
Made of spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
poster covergence: ‘E.T’ and ‘How to Train Your Dragon’
I take a chance and reach out and touch the alien being, and my heart light glows. *sigh*
July 31: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but Adam Sandler dying of some awful disease isn’t your idea of a good time. 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, did you … more…
Wall-E movie review: soul of the machine
Wall-E is practically religion. It’s spiritual in the secular sense, asking us to contemplate the great things we are capable of, and how we so frequently fail to even try to live up to that potential.
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (review)
I told myself I wasn’t gonna cry…
