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Category Archives: movies
Geeky Comedic Genius
I first became aware of British standup comedian Eddie Izzard some years ago when a friend of mine online kept using the phrase “jeezy creezy” in place of Jesus Christ. Since then, I’ve enjoyed his material on TV and in … Continue reading
The law of averages
It’s just a fact. When you make something like 800 over 1,000 movies a year, they’re not all going to be classics. And when you make music videos from the songs in some of those movies, some of them are … Continue reading
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Movie review: 28 Weeks Later
Very briefly, because I don’t want to spend too much time thinking about this movie: Scariest movie I’ve seen in years, possibly ever. Not only in the jump-out-of-your-seat scary, although it has enough of those moments, but more of the … Continue reading
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Movie review: Say Anything…
What a fabulous festival of 80s wonderfulness: people driving cars without seatbelts, airplanes with “no smoking” signs that actually meant something, boxy cars from Detroit, and John Cusack early in his career. Cameron Crowe is a great writer and director … Continue reading
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Linking, reading, commenting, calendaring, working, relaxing
I have to go back to my webcomics post from the other day to add links. I have to let my family and friends know I’m updating the blog regularly and I’d appreciate it if I got some readers and … Continue reading
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Movie review: Spider-Man 3
1. CGI, fight scenes, SPFX, etc.: Awesome. 2. Dialogue: Are you serious? 3. Length: Holy crap, is this still on?! Could have been shorter by 45 minutes, easy. Overall: B- Up next: Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (I’m … Continue reading
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Quality time, and Spider-Man 3 pre-review
We spent time tonight with E and S, good friends with whom we have a weekly dinner, rotating between our two houses. We were scheduled to go up to their house, but S called to let us know their laundry … Continue reading
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Movie review: 28 Days Later
Yeah, I know it ain’t a recent release, but I just watched it on DVD and I need to post about something, so here it is. Well done, visually astonishing suspense/thriller/horror movie. Very well paced and acted, which is saying … Continue reading
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Random Jewish media moment of the day.
DVDDossier, which I never would have found were it not for Dave Zatz (and I have no idea how I found him), opens my eyes to this gem.
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I find your lack of attribution disturbing
I was happy to catch this interview with Ridley Scott on NPR yesterday afternoon on the way home from work. Today is the release day for Blade Runner: The Final Cut, Scott’s latest (and allegedly last) reworking of his 1982 … Continue reading →