Go see Avatar, for God’s sake. It’s excellent. It’s beautiful, thoughtful, complex, intelligent, touching, and a lot of other adjectives. It’s probably going to piss off a lot of stupid people, so ignore what they tell you and go see it.
Our friend Sebastian visited us yesterday, and there are two awesome things from last evening that I wanted to share: The first is The Man from Earth, a movie written by Jerome Bixby (his last work, in fact, completed on his deathbed) and directed by Richard Schenkman. It’s a very …
Alejandro Amenábar + one of the most important and tragic stories in human history = this movie. I’ve always wanted to make a good movie about Hypatia and the Library of Alexandria. Looks like Amenábar got there first. If the movie is as good as the trailer, and I suspect …
So, apparently, the Cylons didn’t really have one. It’s amazing, really. The Plan manages to make Battlestar Galactica – a series that prided itself on the fact that its four-season arc was completely unplanned – make even less sense. There were quite a few plot elements that felt rather forced …
This one should be easier. I love TV as a medium, but there’s not that much excellent work floating around. Babylon 5 (1994-1998) Firefly (2002-2003) Rome (2005-2007) Futurama (1999-????) Friends (1994-2004) Star Trek (1966-1969) Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) The Prisoner (1967-1968) The Twilight Zone (1959-1964) The Education of …
This is almost impossible to do. I have seen a lot of films (there were times when I’d watch two new movies a day), and I have loved many of them. This is even worse than with books. Which is why I will cheat and make the list longer than …
I just saw the trailer for The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, one of my most-anticipated films ever, and it’s stunning. This film is going to be awesome, in the literal sense of the word. Want. See.
Nothing much to report – still working on Phenomenon 32. Progress is swift but the game is large and I’m obsessive. (Today, for example, I spent way too much time making new ground tiles. Who knew minimalism could be so hard?) Expect a preview-type-thing soon, with screenshots and so on. …
I’ve always held that feminism, as a political and academic direction (rather than simply the defense of human rights), is backwards and conservative. And who should it be than so-called feminists who are now in one boat with the extreme right-wing, jointly hunting down their new favourite toy: Roman Polanski. …
I haven’t been very happy with most of the film-related articles on the World Socialist Web Site, but their appraisal of the arrest of Roman Polanski is the best I have read so far, covering the actual facts and motivations behind it in detail. Definitely worth reading. They’ve also put …
