The Giver movie review: give it back
A very simplistic Dystopia for Dummies — with a bit of Terrence Malick for Dummies — and inoffensive enough until it devolves into all kinds of stupid.
Fahrenheit 451
question of the day: What movies have standout opening credits?
In recent years, nothing has blown me away the way that Watchmen’s opening sequence does: it brilliantly sets up the alternate reality the story takes place within…
question of the weekend: Why hasn’t geek culture grown up?
It suddenly occurred to me when I was writing about the trailer for Never Let Me Go the other day that I was surprised that we don’t see more movies like that one these days. See, 25 years ago, when I was 15, if someone had told me, “By the time you’re 40, geeks will … more…
The Book of Eli (review)
Denzel was carrying the fire, right, Papa? Yes. The book was the fire? Yes. No. The boy wouldnt understand.
newsflash from the 20th century: ‘Secret Girlfriend’ moves from Web to TV
No no no. They’re getting it all backward! Comedy Central has just greenlighted a new show based on a Web series, “Secret Girlfriend,” according to Variety. This is going in the wrong direction — it’s as if a buggy-whip manufacturer in 1910, trying to stay relevant, had proudly announced that it would begin selling a … more…
