Citizenfour documentary review (London Film Festival)
Edward Snowden speaks. Buy a ticket to this film… and use your credit card, so the NSA knows you care about this stuff.
Prisoner
Safe Haven (review)
Not just another tale about how the people whose photos come with the picture frames fell in love. This time it’s a thriller, too!
what?! Ricardo Montalban and Patrick McGoohan on the same day?
Geez, step away from the computer for five minutes (or five hours)… So I clicked over to the IMDB to check out some stuff and I see the headline: Actor Ricardo Montalban Dies at 88 And then the other headline: Patrick McGoohan Dead At 80 And I’m all, Oh, crap. I’m a geek. And I’m … more…
Gattaca movie review: and you thought political correctness was annoying
If Shakespeare was alive today and writing science fiction, he might come up with something like the distopian GATTACA. GATTACA is real SF, not to be confused with the likes of Armageddon — GATTACA uses the conceits of science fiction not as an excuse for some really cool explosions but to explore what it means to be human.
The Truman Show movie review: good god?
Is The Truman Show haunting you like it’s haunting me? Do you find yourself digging through the layers of metaphors, finding new subtleties as you go? Are you in awe over Jim Carrey’s performance like I am?
Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery (review)
Warning: Consume with Alcohol Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery (starring Mike Myers, Elizabeth Hurley, Michael York, Robert Wagner) may be a movie best seen with a large group of somewhat drunk — or at least goofy — people. I watched the video stone sober and curled up on the couch with no one but … more…
