Link: Movie Review – Where the Wild Things Are — NYTimes.com
There are different ways to read the wild things, through a Freudian or colonialist prism, and probably as many ways to ruin this delicate story of a solitary child liberated by his imagination.
There are probably fewer ways to ruin a movie review, but trying to [...]
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Sometimes A Movie Is Just A Movie
October 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Movies, News
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Zombieland
October 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Movies, The Funny
Saw Zombieland last night. Best movie of the year, without question.
From its Wikipedia article comes this gem of a quote:
Shortly after finishing the filming of Zombieland, Woody Harrelson had an altercation with a TMZ photographer at New York City’s La Guardia Airport. His defense was that he was still in character and thought the cameraman [...]
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Novel Futures
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Art, Books, Movies, Music
Link: I am offering 60% of the U.S. royalties of my second novel to “the public”
Shareholders will receive checks (and copies of the royalty statement from my publisher) in the mail every 6 months after the book’s publication (probably Fall, 2009 or Spring 2010). Shares can be resold at any price at any time, I [...]
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What’s In It For Doogie Howser?
July 21st, 2008 · 53 Comments · Film, Movies, TV, Web/Tech
Writer/director Joss Whedon released a fun little project that he worked up during the actor’s writers’ strike. “Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog” is a terrific story that I watched several times, shared with the wife and kid, etc. As I watched it for the second time, I got to thinking about the business behind this, since [...]
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Steamboat Willie
July 8th, 2008 · No Comments · Movies, The Funny
Everybody knows that Steamboat Willie was the first cartoon with sound, but have you ever actually seen the whole thing? I was compelled to look this up after seeing a reference to it in the new Futurama movie that just came out last week. I won’t give away the details, but suffice it to say [...]
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Why Don’t More Writers Use The Net to Bludgeon the Studios?
November 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Movies, TV
I’ve seen a few posts about the writer’s strike in the past few days to the effect of "ha ha, those evil Hollywood studios and networks, this will be the last nail in their coffin." Maybe, maybe not. I generally sympathize with what the writers are demanding (of course they should get residuals on online [...]
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Colma: The Musical
July 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Movies
Link: Colma: The Musical
"Yet even when the songs convey a sense of the larger world, they remain as personal as a confession. When the three friends sing the movie’s opener, ‘Colma Stays,’ both separately and together, they are literally traveling through a physical space (‘Everybody has their call/And everyone in Colma ends up at the [...]
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What I Did For Lloyd
March 18th, 2007 · No Comments · Movies
Link: What I Did For Lloyd.
"Lloyd Dobler’s boombox moment became the pinnacle of romance — the standard that no man could ever meet no matter how hard he tried. I’ve always loved Lloyd Dobler and have grown to appreciate him more as the years have gone on . . . the guy in high school [...]
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All You Need to Know about the Actual Merits of “Snakes On A Plane”
August 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Movies
Link: Snakes on a Plane – Review – Movies – New York Times.
"There are several different ways to die from an encounter with a snake and this film has them all. Not long after the passenger lights turn off, the rubber, computer-generated and (several hundred) live snakes slither into the main cabin, where they proceed [...]
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