Drillbit Taylor is a story of a group of high school freshmen who hire the title character (a homeless ex-soldier played by Owen Wilson) to protect them from the local bully. Since they are naïve freshmen, they believe Taylor's ridiculous claims about being discharged for "unauthorized heroism" and being able to use a silver serving [...]
Thursday, January 31, 2008
One of the primary reasons I wanted to see There Will Be Blood is the New York Times. From the study of Daniel Day-Lewis in the magazine to an article about Jonny Greenwood's soundtrack to the highly positive review of the film itself, it became a symbol of everything that was right with American cinema, [...]
Monday, December 24, 2007
A review of I Am Legend, a 2007 film starring Will Smith as a human survivor of a virus that has turned almost everyone else on Earth into bloodthirsty vampires.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
After my dinner plans fell through last night, I found myself in Harvard Square with a bit of wanderlust and $1.25 burning a hole in my pocket. I rode down the Red Line to Park Street, ate at McDonald's (first "restaurant" I saw), and then headed to Loews Boston Common to see what movies were [...]
Monday, September 25, 2006
I review Jet Li's latest film, Fearless, and compare it to the last Jet Li movie I saw, Hero.
The popular video website YouTube is hosting a "Make Our Video" contest for the Seattle indie rock band Pretty Girls Make Graves in order to promote the band's upcoming album Élan Vital. Entrants are directed to download the album's first track, The Nocturnal House, and create a music video based on it. While the grand [...]
Wednesday, March 29, 2006
A confession: I actually look forward to seeing the movie Snakes on a Plane, but not just because of its title. The movie's premise[1] is so ridiculous that it cannot fail to be campy. I would not be surprised if Snakes on a Plane became some sort of cult classic.
Combine my anticipation with the fact [...]
Friday, February 24, 2006
I previously wrote about my high expectations for the movie Garden State. In this entry, I talk about my thoughts after having seen the film.
Saturday, December 24, 2005
An special action-filled edit of the 1940 film His Girl Friday. Brought to you by the public domain and Ourmedia.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
How DrunkenBlog's "Evening at Adler" is symptomatic of our new creator-oriented world.
Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Pitchfork:
For Garden State, drugs are clearly not the key to a better life; Natalie Portman is. Barring that, try music.
Everything I have heard about the film suggests that I will love it (New Jersey, Natalie Portman, The Shins, that snarky guy from Scrubs; it sounds like Paradise in film format). My only question is whether [...]
Photo Matt likes Hero. It is a good film, but I would have to issue some caveats in my recommendation. Spoilers follow:
The story: Boy sees movie. Boy falls in love with character from movie. Boy buys DVD of Japanese movie that inspired character boy loves. Boy realizes that DVD is Region 3, since there is no Region 1 DVD. Boy gets angry. Boy gets even, by constructing an extremely funny dialog between "DVD Jon" (famous for [...]
"Walt" on Redstate.org writes about a letter that MoveOn.org sent to its supporters, asking for help in their anti-Fox campaign. Walt takes issue with MoveOn's wish that people "push" Congressmen to speak out against Fox.
It sounds like intimidation to me.
That's funny. Where I come from, they call it lobbying.
You see, Walt, our Congressmen are public [...]
A post on the Harvard Democrats mailing list alerted me to the fact that Jack Valenti, CEO of the MPAA, would be replaced by none other than the director of the Harvard Institute of Politics, Dan Glickman. All indications seems to indicate that Glickman will continue in Valenti's footsteps. From the WaPo:
"Privacy and protecting the [...]
Juan Cole attempts to compare Bush with Neo and Agent Smith from The Matrix. On the blog "Just a Bump in the Beltway," Rodger comments that:
Bush could be Agent Smith though most people won't see the analogy Mr. Cole posits as it is a bit obscure. Then again I can't really think of a contemporary [...]
Just fifteen minutes after I posted about The Conqueror, a film starring John Wayne as Temujin, later known as Genghis Khan, the movie started on AMC. It was a decent 1950s adventure film, by which I mean to say that I found its "suckiness" relative. A 15-second Emergency Alert System test interrupted the final battle [...]
The UK newspaper The Telegraph reports on how Governor Schwarzenegger's role as a Turkish sultan in the film Around the World in Eighty Days may re-raise public images of him as a lecher. While this is possible, I suspect that like past California governors, Schwarzenegger's political personality is made of Teflon.
One thing that struck me [...]
Interesting article on military.com (courtesy of Engadget) about a possible replacement for the M-16 series of rifles. Made by Heckler & Koch, the modular design of the XM-8 (interchangeable barrels!) makes a perfect weapon for any modernized army. And it just plain looks futuristic, like something out of Starship Troopers. Alas, the guns in that [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Perhaps I am still bitter about that Super Bowl commercial, or my bias against people from North Carolina was particularly virulent today. Either way, I found it necessary to respond to this post on the "importance" of Apple.