I went to see Inception tonight, and given the amount of hype surrounding that film and my own fairly divergent experience, I feel compelled to write about it. I won’t waste your time describing the concept of the film beyond the basics; You have likely already been informed in full. It’s not that the idea [...]
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Go watch Collapse. Seriously.
The ‘collapse’ of the title is the imminent collapse of the modern industrialized civilization as a result of ignorance about the implications of peak oil. The film is an hour plus of watching a man smoking in a dark room, supported by graphs and stock footage. The difference that makes Collapse a standout in the [...]
Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa
A friend pointed me to this documentary today, and so far I’ve watched it twice. It’s about a New Mexico community of war veterans, runaway kids, hippies and other outcasts living totally cut off from society. I expected it to be much, much darker than it actually is; These are some truly interesting characters with [...]
So Roger Ebert ran my letter…
… where i basically complain that every single time a movie critic looks for a way to describe a film as soulless or shallow they grab for the video game comparison. Call it a pet peeve, because it is. I can’t stand it. At the very least quantify your comparison; call it a BAD video [...]
For the love of god, don’t pay to see Disaster Movie
Two names. Pay attention. Jason Friedberg Aaron Seltzer Together these two men have, reportedly, “skewered” the creative product of other human beings since 1996 through movies like Spy Hard, Scary Movie, Date Movie, Epic Movie and Meet the spartans. Drink that in. Breathe it. I don’t consider myself a conoisseur of comedy, but i definitely [...]
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