Showing posts with label TV/Film. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV/Film. Show all posts
Sunday, December 17, 2017

Alias Grace: A Brief Review

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So I just binge-watched the Netflix series Alias Grace, on Netflix (based on the Margaret Atwood novel, which I haven't read). I recom...
Sunday, July 06, 2014

How to Survive

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Every time I rewatch the trailer for How to Survive a Plague (2012) — and I find it compulsively rewatchable; I keep playing it in the back...
Thursday, May 15, 2014

Very Brief, Spiler-Free Thoughts on Marvel's Agents of Shield, Season 1

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So Agents of Shield turned out fun, in the end. For those of you who bailed, the place to start is probably episode 10, when the show got...
Thursday, October 03, 2013

3/10/2013

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I have blogged about palindromic dates once before , and at the time discussed two of my very favorite * palindromes: Georges Perec's G...
Monday, September 02, 2013

A Marvelous Jazz Visualization

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Via , here's a fabulous animation visualizing (part of) the title track to John Coltrane's classic 1959 album Giant Steps , by Israe...
Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Quote of the Day: the Murders We Romanticize and the Murders We Don't

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The city of Deadwood, they stage the murder of [Wild Bill] Hickok fourteen times a day. People have the security of knowing that that story...
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Monday, April 08, 2013

I Have No Idea How Reliable The Information On This List Is...

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...but if it's reliable, then this is fabulous, and quite well put together: Incidentally, the one famous film moment I'd alway...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

On the Mayan Apocalypse

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CORDELIA ...if the world doesn't end, I'm gonna need a note. -- Buffy the Vampire Slayer , Episode 3.12, "Helpless...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Tidbits, Short Takes and Links

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• Overall, the Obama win feels less like a glorious victory & more like a near-miss car collision that you're thankful to have walk...
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Joss Whedon on the Election

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( Via , but what, like I wasn't going to run across this somewhere and post it at soon as I saw it? Puh-leeze.)
Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Six Brief Notes On Safety Not Guaranteed

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As I've alluded to from time to time, I don't really see first-run movies these days -- babysitters are expensive, work expansive. ...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Summer Batman Entertainment

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No, not the film -- which I haven't seen, largely because seeing films in theaters just doesn't fit into my life these days for a va...
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

I Would Never Have Watched This If It Didn't Star Amy Acker

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But since it does, I did, and I'm glad I did. It's a cool little film, a 2-minute short -- sort of the video equivalent of a short ...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

A Brilliant Ad, and a Missed Opportunity

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So for those of you who (like me) did not watch the superbowl, and who (like me) are a child of the 80s, this (extended version of a) superb...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

The Ogre's Feathers

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I just watched a brilliant short film called "The Ogre's Feathers" , written and directed by Michael Almereyda . I was intere...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Something To Look Forward To...

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The buzz on the internet this morning: ....there was some speculation that it could be a hoax (the title certainly would fit), but Natha...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Boycott the New Buffy Movie!

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So it looks like they're really making a new Buffy movie... without Joss Whedon's input . ( via Gerry .) Didn't we all learn fr...
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

What If... Dollhouse Had Been a Music Video Instead of a TV Show?

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It might have been as good as its best parts , and only four minutes long ( h/t to Gerry ): The video is, itself, an SF story, staring Fran ...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Holy Shinola, David Simon Just Won a MacArthur Genius Grant!

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Sure, creating a program that has been endlessly referred to as the greatest TV show of all time -- largely although not entirely because i...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Dollhouse: The Good Parts Version (a guide)

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"When she was good, She was very, very good, And when she was bad she was horrid...." The first episode of the second season of Jo...