Category: Arts & Entertainment
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Secret Saturdays
Jay Stephens’ blog Monsterama is great for anybody who’s a fan of cartoon monsters from the 50s – 70s (and everybody is, even if they don’t realize it yet). For the past year or so, it’s been particularly cool because he’s been tracing the concept and production of “The Secret Saturdays,” an animated series he’s…
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My So-Called Luminosity
There’s a scene in the the trailer for the upcoming re-remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, where Nicole Kidman’s character is walking through a crowd of people and is warned not to show any emotion, because that’s how they can tell you’re still human. Looking at the Rotten Tomatoes page for Stardust is a…
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Six and a half minutes of the hunter
I’m one more movie closer to death, since I saw The Night of the Hunter last night. And it’s at least a dozen kinds of awesome. A movie like this is really difficult for me to describe. Something like His Girl Friday is easy: it’s timeless, just as cool today as it was 67 years…
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The Asset
I was really impressed with The Bourne Identity. I didn’t see it until the second movie had already been out on DVD for a while, so I’d already heard the consensus, that it was better than you’d expect from an action movie starring Matt Damon and directed by the guy who did Swingers. But even…
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Damn you all to
The easiest way to tell that The Sopranos is a great show is that so far, the second season has been really good, and I’m disappointed by it. Everything that’s bugging me about it is a barely-perceptible nitpick, and each point is noticeable only because the first season set the bar so high. Like the…
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The Ending of the New Harry Potter Book
must be really important to a lot of people, if the parking lot of the Borders in Marin County is any indication! I had figured that since I was working late anyway, I could drop by at midnight tonight and gawk at all the kids. When I drove by at around 11:30, the parking lot…
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1-18-08
My Transformers experience wasn’t a total wash, though, because before the movie they ran the trailer for a new “Untitled J.J. Abrams Project”. According to the IMDB, it’s got a writing credit by Drew Goddard, who was heavily involved in “Lost”, “Alias”, and “Angel”. There are rumors and speculation up on ain’t it cool news,…
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Decrapticons
Qatar is in the Middle East! I learned that from the Transformers movie. Each of the dozen or so times the movie cut over to the action in Qatar (Middle East), there would be a shot of the desert and some army guys and a building with mosaic-lined archways and guys in turbans, and there’d…
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Mickey Shrugged
This week Mac got me into a preview screening of Ratatouille. It’s really an outstanding movie. It’s gotten to where you just expect the highest level of quality from Pixar movies, and Ratatouille exceeds that. At the technical level, of course, it’s perfect — Pixar movies always have much, much more going on behind the…
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Schrödinger’s Capo
Well, that didn’t last. One week and seven episodes after I started watching The Sopranos, I found out how it ended. The culprit was Ron Moore’s “Battlestar Galactica” blog, of all things. Technically, it got ruined much earlier, several times over; I just hadn’t realized that when Yahoo News changed their big headline from “Will…
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Take the cannoli, mang
Tonight’s entry in the Movies Everybody Has Already Seen Except Me Marathon was the Brian DePalma classic Scarface. Now, I realize the movie is 24 years old, but I’ve got to throw myself on the mercy of the internets here, because I just don’t get it. I’ve been looking around for some kind of explanation,…
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Got myself a gun… about seven years late.
Update: Hey, this post was rambling and non-sensical even for me. I’ll leave it as an example of what happens when you put stuff on the internets while tired. But here’s what I would’ve written had I been typing coherently last night: “The Sopranos” aired its series finale this week. In the seven years the…