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Sunday, July 20th, 2008(Updated 2 PM 2008 Jul 20)
The latest Joss Whedon effort, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a short musical made available on the Web and starring Neal Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion (better known as Doogie Howser and Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, respectively). The plot revolves around the titular villian — more like, villian wannabe — [...]
Review: Serenity Found
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008Serenity Found: More Unauthorized Essays on Joss Whedon’s Firefly Universe
edited by Jane Espenson
Rating: 3 out of 5
What can I say? Meh. Another collection of essays (following the superior Finding Serenity) discoursing on the deep meanings to be found in the universe of Firefly, a short-lived TV series as well as Serenity, its major-picture [...]
The decline of American political reporting
Thursday, April 17th, 2008As always, let me begin by stating I am an Obama supporter, so I’m a mite sensitive on the following. But it shocked me this morning to hear NPR’s coverage of the “debate” last night. We’ll leave aside the astonishing fact — which they tried to explain away — that forty minutes (nearly [...]
Star Wars at 31
Sunday, March 30th, 2008Apparently Spike TV is running all of the Star Wars movies as a “mega saga event” over the course of the next weekend. I happened to come across their “ultimate trailer” online, which stitches together bits from all six movies. And strung together like that, all those bits suddenly make clear what’s gone [...]
Review: His Dark Materials
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008His Dark Materials:
The Golden Compass
The Subtle Knife
The Amber Spyglass
a triology by Philip Pullman
InstaRating: 4 out of 5
This trilogy has apparently sparked quite the bitter controversy, especially online. It’s a tale of High Fantasy,Variationen von omaha poker. quite consciously in the vein of Tolkein or C.S. Lewis, but it takes a tack quite different than, [...]
Review: Charlie Wilson’s War
Friday, January 4th, 2008Charlie Wilson’s War
screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
starring Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman
InstaRating: 5+ stars out of 5
It took less than five minutes for this film to remind me why I miss Aaron Sorkin on TV.
Review: Marc Cohn at the Highline Ballroom
Saturday, November 17th, 2007As is my wont whenever Marc Cohn wanders into the New York-Philadelphia corridor, I went to see him perform — this time, at the Highline Ballroom in lower Manhattan. True to form, it was a fantastic show with Marc the consummate showman. The opening act was Amy Correia and this time, Marc played [...]
The Mongrel Dogs at Sea (4): Review: Next
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Insta Rating: 4 out of 5
OK, it’s a little odd to be reviewing a movie when I’m supposed to be off on a wonderful cruise. But as mentioned before I was pretty wiped out, so I decided to take advantage of the onboard movie theater and catch Next starring Nicholas Cage and Jessica Biel. [...]
So long, Studio 60
Monday, July 2nd, 2007Edited for grammar 2007 Dec 16.
I just finished watching my TiVo’d copy of “What Kind of Day Has It Been”, the 22nd and final episode of Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Studio 60 was highly touted as the Next Big Thing in TV drama, opened with a stellar pilot, and then [...]
Irksome metric
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Today, there’s a piece by Maya Jasonoff in the Sunday magazine of the New York Times on the Americans loyal to Britain during the Revolution, and it has me irked. It’s not the thesis, which I agree with, that we should be more aware that the “self-evident” truths were anything but, to about [...]
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