“Words are magic. Sometimes I think the whole world is strung together by words.” - John Cusack’s character in the movie “ Max”
I’d not realized how amazingly well written this movie is when I saw it before. Gems just falling out of the characters’ mouths.
Well not precisely gems. Not all. Some are lumps of smouldering, […]

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Check out the post “AI” fare:
Robot Stories
and
I Robot
I loved AI. It still ranks among my most favorite films. But, hardly anybody else did, it seems.
I have a thing for all things robot. Really.

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Denby ticked me off when he reviewed Fight Club so ham-handedly some years back. But he redeems himself here in his review of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion.”

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As a father of a now 7 yr old kid who is well on her way to being a very wild kid, I don’t nkow if I can deal with Thirteen.

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Can’t wait to start seeing this new series on HBO: Carnivýle. It’s like all the stuff I dig most rolled up into a single TV show. Creepy carnival people, Flannery O’Connoresque desperation complete with faithful misfits, sepia-toned ennui. Mmmmmm….

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I have to admit, after seeing MR, I was a little disappointed. I’ve tried not to discuss this with my friends who loved it, because I know I’ll just be frowned upon as a stuffy curmudgeon, but when I read Adam Gopnick’s essay in The New Yorker, I realized I wasn’t alone. Here’s a guy […]

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Friday night, our kid was at a sleepover, so we indulged… My wife and I saw Punch-Drunk Love and then right after it went to Secretary. Inbetween we had hot chocolate and cake at the little bistro at the cool theater we go to here.
It was really fascinating to see both of them together like […]

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Check it out! You can download a whole new 2 min movie: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Wallace and Gromit film premiÀres

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