Mad Men
This excellent Atlantic article on the show echoes a few criticisms first aired in an equally excellent Culture11 review last year. Unfortunately, the original article is lost to the Internets, but I found a...
Category: TV and Movies
Time Travel
My favorite movie that involves time traveling is Twelve Monkeys. Anybody know a better time-travel flick? And, beyond that, has anyone ever seen a time traveling film that made enough sense to be believable? ...
Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Update. I’m moving this to the front page for a bit because I think people should check it out. It’s good for a laugh, and what with all this madness surrounding the cops picking...
Star Trek
By the way, I saw Star Trek this past weekend and it was great fun. I’m not a big Trek fan – though I loved some of the old movies when I was a...
two quotes for the afternoon
I’d love to be wrong about this. But I’m not. If you want to understand the world, not just collect endless factlets, you still need to read books. If you do, the internet makes...
I don’t own a tv…
…but I do own a computer, and these days you can do almost anything on a computer, including watch TV. There are many, many fewer ads and you don’t fall prey as easily to...
Observe and report.
Observe and Report is going to surprise many people who go see it this weekend. And perhaps not in a good way. From the TV spots for Seth Rogen’s new movie, you might think...
The remakes continue…
…this time with a brand new Masters of the Universe. That’s right. He-Man is back…
socialism creep
Okay, so I can’t quite follow this. I’m sure Peter’s right about the merits of The International; I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to. But I have a hard time following the logical...
a little more on party and perspective
To extend the question of partisan positioning leading to inconsistencies just a bit further (and I promise that I’m done after that), consider James Poulos, echoing Peter Suderman, “If movies aren’t always, or even...
incoherent blockbusters and the Dark Knight
I think it was Eagle Eye that finally broke me. I just can’t take any more movies that don’t make any sense. Not because that forgettable Shia Labeouf vehicle was particularly nonsensical– it didn’t...
