Protestant Gadget Ethic
Making sense of the iPad mini in a world that doesn’t need it.
Richard Parker, Burning Bright
More thoughts on Life of Pi, the movie I earlier said had left me with nothing to think about.
We Sold a Zoo
Life of Pi is spectacular even for people jaded by spectacle, and it might even be meaningful to people jaded by pop spirituality.
Force Majeure
Disney buying Lucasfilm is a good thing.
Ministry of Defensiveness
Skyfall is way too pretty to have such low self-esteem.
Everything Crashed Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
American Horror Story: Asylum is either awful with a few moments of brilliance, or brilliant in its awfulness. Or both. Or neither.
Concern Tron
Wreck It Ralph is by every measure a movie that only Disney could’ve made, and it’s the best movie to come out of Disney Animation Studios in years.
Tabletized
Impressions of the iPad mini and Microsoft Surface, and the realization that I just don’t know what the hell is going on anymore.
Logical Disasters
CNN is filled with people who don’t have enough sense to get in out of the rain during a hurricane. They’re still smarter than the yabbos paying them for advertising.
The City That Never Blinks
Being a nerd, I have opinions about the Doctor Who mid-season finale, “The Angels Take Manhattan.”
Just when I thought I was out…
Looper isn’t the time-traveling mob movie we expect, but it may just be the time-traveling mob movie we need.
Failure to Comply
I can’t tell if Dredd is a satire on hyper-violent action movies, or just an unusually smart and well-made hyper-violent action movie. And I’m not entirely sure that the distinction even matters.