Category Archives: Movies

The Sound of One Atlas Shrugging

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 by Keith

So, Atlas Shrugged (Part 1 of what is sure to be the most interminable trilogy, ever) has a 6% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. As the faithful Randites tell it though, this is just the slander of parasites, who do not … Continue reading →

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Friends and Enemies

Posted on Sunday, October 10, 2010 by Keith

We weren’t going to see the Social Network but then we heard the inexplicable: that was good. You wouldn’t think there could be a way for this to be true. A 2 hour movie about the legal troubles of the … Continue reading →

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All The Same Stories Told Differently

Posted on Thursday, July 15, 2010 by Keith

Over at AMC’s filmcritic blog, John Scalzi makes a very good and needed distinction: I’ve been pretty consistent in my opinion that Hollywood goes a little too often to the well of sequels and remakes, but, philosophically, I don’t really … Continue reading →

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A Phoney by Another Name

Posted on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 by Keith

An interesting article at Salon about the debate over whether or not to adapt Catcher in the Rye into a movie touches on something I’ve been thinking on for a while, namely, movie adaptations of books. For the record, I’m, … Continue reading →

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Next On Sci-Fi Theater…

Posted on Monday, June 14, 2010 by Keith

Over at io9, Charlie Jane asks a very good question: Is science fiction uniquely suited to blockbuster movies, because it’s a genre that lends itself to explosions and rampant breasts? And conversely, is the Hollywood version of science fiction too … Continue reading →

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Not The Perseus You’re Looking For

Posted on Thursday, April 1, 2010 by Keith

Over at Salon, Martha Nichols asks, why can’t Hollywood make good mythic movies? Watching the trailer for “Clash of the Titans,” I know as surely as the Oracle of Delphi that this movie will be foul. A remake of the … Continue reading →

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The Wookie Always Wins

Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2010 by Keith

Paul Campos over at Lawyers Guns and Money makes an interesting observation about the lingua franca of our modern world, pop culture references: [...] at this point I find that the only two film references that I can always count … Continue reading →

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All You Need is Hate

Posted on Monday, February 15, 2010 by Keith

Over at the Onion Av club, they have an interesting discussion of movies, TV shows and music that people have fallen out of love with. As much as I’m loathe to admit it, Sam Adams has a point about Tim … Continue reading →

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Uncle Larry and the Thundersmurfs of Pandora

Posted on Monday, December 21, 2009 by Keith

John Scalzi reviews Avatar and makes explicit what we already knew: Cameron has enough of a track record that even without seeing this film I pretty much know how it will be: Amazing visually and technically, with a story that … Continue reading →

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The Year the 80s Died

Posted on Friday, August 7, 2009 by Keith

We lost Michael Jackson a month ago* and yesterday, we lost John Hughes. Hughes is a much bigger loss for me. I had only a passing interest in MJ’s music during the 80s. I was exposed to Thriller and Bad … Continue reading →

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