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Are you one of those people who can’t stand the sound of silence? If you’re by yourself, do you play a radio or stream audio/video all the time? Or do you love the sound of absolute silence? I’m somewhere in between. I love the sound of absolute silence, but when surrounded by it (can an [...] Why do certain movies make us cry? I don’t mean manufactured weepie dramas, but ordinary movies that don’t make anybody else cry…even though you weep every time you see it. Or perhaps it’s just me. I cry when I watch Raiders of the Lost Ark and Marion Ravenwood first unleashes that massive anime grin of [...] District 9 is packed with ideas, ignoring countless cliches as it hurls itself into a frenzy of themes and concepts you expect only from the best science fiction. [...] I think I’ve just about had it with the prettification of the adult male. Decades of Dr. Who have given us a wide variety of doctors, from the old and cranky to the youthful and dorky. Never have we been handed an out-and-out pretty boy. I would love to have been at the meetings [...] Oh, and by the way, as I sit here writing blog posts, my dad is firing up Valkyrie, that movie with Tom Cruise as a Nazi somethingorother. Its opening “trick” to explain away the fact that Tom Cruise is soooo not German is one of the weakest I’ve seen, um, ever. On this topic I [...] I loathe Michael Bay movies, his commercial-slick direction and so-called mastery of spectacle are masks for deafening stupidity. But I enjoyed the first Transformers more than I care to admit, and reluctantly resigned myself to seeing the sequel. In this latest, Mr. Bay has achieved new levels of plagiarism, stealing liberally from his own numerous [...] “Seems like only yesterday” is, indeed, a cliche. I read Watchmen when they were only available as monthly issues in a 12-issue series, and that doesn’t feel like 23 years ago. Perhaps the reason Watchmen feels so recent is that it remains a rich and entertaining literary epic, its themes so painfully appropriate, its unflinching [...] Good editorial, all too brief. Over the last few weeks, I’ve really enjoyed watching the digitally remastered three seasons of the original Star Trek Series. If you’re a fan and haven’t experienced the cleaned, effects-enhanced episodes, I recommend them. For die-hards, just go ahead and buy the seasons; for everyone else, rent or stream them from Netflix. One of [...] One of my childhood idols is back…and hotter than ever. Let the foaming of the mouths begin. |
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