First snow of teh season: October 23, 2005 see also: Fortunately, my dad and I (plus a couple friends) snuck in a quick(!?) hike up Camel’s Hump yesterday. (Pics to follow once I get the copies emailed to me; was sans camera unfortunately…) Note to self: avoid the Forest City Trail up the mountain next time. […]
Reflecting on John’s recent post (one of the comments, to be specific), it dawned on me that I’d never cast my perfect true-to-point cinematic version of Neuromancer. How sloppy of me. Armitage/Corto – John Turturro (though Gary Oldman and Christopher Walken are close runners up for this role…) Case – Jason Lee (think about it, […]
Recently I posted about the short-lived Fox series Firefly and its upcoming related film Serenity. This past weekend, A & I saw Serenity at the theater. Overall? 3/5 stars if you’re unfamiliar with the series. 4/5 stars if you are. As I mentioned re: Firefly, it’s a pretty refreshing take on the sci-fi genre and […]
Maybe I’d never heard of Firefly before because its short stint on TV happened to coincide with when A & I didn’t have one and watched even less of it. Maybe it’s Serenity‘s upcoming release that brought it on to our radar screen. Or maybe it was just chance. In short, it’s a Steampunk/Western & […]
file under: essential viewing More like “required viewing”, Gunner Palace is a documentary about the U.S. Army in Baghdad during 2003-2004 – – following the invasion (“bomb it”) and during the occupation (“build it”). What you get is the perspective of those U.S. Army soldiers during this period. Interesting the way that morale flakes and […]
The Jacket – – think Memento without the harsh nihilism. Adrien Brody is Jack Starks, a Purple Heart-ish Gulf War vet that gets stuck with a murder charge and packed away to an institution in Vermont. (“Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” is not without its malign.) This tale spins nice moral/ethical circles re: what […]
Saw this amusing flick last night. Don’t think this is something that I would have picked up on my own but a friend left it over here urging us to give it a viewing. So we did. Funny stuff. A little strange at point, a little puerile, but fun.
(Via Boing Boing) … “Prequel Generation Questions A New Hope”… The predictable aside (“Wow! Is the Death Star done already? I guess that’s how you know that a long time has passed.” How about the fact that Obiwan is much older? Or the fact that Luke is at least “man size” (if not yet a […]
I’ve now had 3 people ask me: “Have you seen The Movie yet?” …as if there were only one. And the funny part is, I know exactly what movie they’re talking about.
HOLY FUCKING SHIT! Thought that it had been Wrangled but turns out I saw it here… (Same difference?) Very heady, very well-informed flick philosophically, dramatically, and cinematically speaking. Oh and while the psychology leans in the pop-psych direction, it isn’t so caught up in that angle that it ruins it. (In fact, I’d say that […]