Posts tagged “movies”
Steve Martin
Steve Martin was on the Today Show this morning plugging his new movie, Novocaine. It looks like it will be pretty good. (This is his second role as a dentist, of course.) I forgot to mention that I read his book, ShopGirl, earlier this year and thought it was wonderful. The book is somewhere between
busy weekend
A weekend media recap
To Have and Have Not
An essay on To Have and Have Not by David Gagne
Clone Wars
On the same day media outlets reported that a group of researchers planned to clone up to 200 humans, filmmaker George Lucas revealed the title of his upcoming fifth film in the highly popular Star Wars series: Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones.” [link via NextDraft]
ApeCrap
I am sad to report that the ‘new’ Planet of the Apes is possibly one of the top five worst movies I’ve ever seen. The audience was phenomenal. The special effects were mind-blowing. The acting was honestly ‘not that bad’. The audience was phenomenal. The theater sound system and projection was state-of-the-art. The trailers were
Airplane
Listen Betty, don’t start up with your white zone shit again!
John Williams
In which he goes to an amazing concert
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing
Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing – Chris Isaak I really dig this song. I still haven’t seen Eyes Wide Shut and don’t know that I ever will, but this is a cool song. It reminds me of Baby Please Don’t Go from Wild at Heart.
A.I.
Rebecca’s Pocket has an excellent and terse review of A.I.: “[*1/2— ] Disney does Blade Runner. Skip it.” There’s a longer, very well-written review, albeit with major spoilers, at unHip.
Guess the Name
I love playing Guess the Movie. I’m surprised that it took as long as it did to guess Raiders of the Lost Ark. The clincher was, “Does the main character HATE snakes?” Did anyone else happen to catch the AFI 100 Years of 100 Thrills special on last night? Here’s the list. You should visit