Category: movies
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Geeky Comedic Genius
I first became aware of British standup comedian Eddie Izzard some years ago when a friend of mine online kept using the phrase “jeezy creezy” in place of Jesus Christ. Since then, I’ve enjoyed his material on TV and in a few movies, and now, thanks to a Youtube user with too much time on…
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I find your lack of attribution disturbing
I was happy to catch this interview with Ridley Scott on NPR yesterday afternoon on the way home from work. Today is the release day for Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Scott’s latest (and allegedly last) reworking of his 1982 classic, so he talked to Michelle Norris about the movie and his inspirations for it.…
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The law of averages
It’s just a fact. When you make something like 800 over 1,000 movies a year, they’re not all going to be classics. And when you make music videos from the songs in some of those movies, some of them are going to be so laughably bad that they’ll provide untold oodles of entertainment (“untold oodles”?…
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Movie review: 28 Weeks Later
Very briefly, because I don’t want to spend too much time thinking about this movie: Scariest movie I’ve seen in years, possibly ever. Not only in the jump-out-of-your-seat scary, although it has enough of those moments, but more of the sustained scariness of a horror/sci-fi movie that’s just close enough to being real (the underlying…
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Movie review: Say Anything…
What a fabulous festival of 80s wonderfulness: people driving cars without seatbelts, airplanes with “no smoking” signs that actually meant something, boxy cars from Detroit, and John Cusack early in his career. Cameron Crowe is a great writer and director with a long list of excellent movies to his credit. Say Anything…, like several of…
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Linking, reading, commenting, calendaring, working, relaxing
I have to go back to my webcomics post from the other day to add links. I have to let my family and friends know I’m updating the blog regularly and I’d appreciate it if I got some readers and comments. I have an account with Gootodo, a terrific web-based to-do list application created by…
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Movie review: Spider-Man 3
1. CGI, fight scenes, SPFX, etc.: Awesome. 2. Dialogue: Are you serious? 3. Length: Holy crap, is this still on?! Could have been shorter by 45 minutes, easy. Overall: B- Up next: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (I’m at the wedding, just past the Stan Lee cameo). Hope to finish tomorrow.
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Quality time, and Spider-Man 3 pre-review
We spent time tonight with E and S, good friends with whom we have a weekly dinner, rotating between our two houses. We were scheduled to go up to their house, but S called to let us know their laundry machine is on the fritz again, so we switched the date to our place, and…
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Movie review: 28 Days Later
Yeah, I know it ain’t a recent release, but I just watched it on DVD and I need to post about something, so here it is. Well done, visually astonishing suspense/thriller/horror movie. Very well paced and acted, which is saying something for what is essentially a zombie movie. But really, it’s much more than that,…
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Random Jewish media moment of the day.
DVDDossier, which I never would have found were it not for Dave Zatz (and I have no idea how I found him), opens my eyes to this gem.