The world of digital video is a great equalizer. Have an idea for a movie? Think you can do things better than what is currently on the market? Have the ability to push the red button on a camera? How… Read More ›
Month: May 2007
Is The Empire in Africa Just a Jedi Mind Trick?
Dramatizations based on historical truths often must gloss over certain facts. It can be impossible, over the course of two hours, to fully explore the historical realities of a moment in time. Events within our world tend to be far,… Read More ›
Veronica Mars May Be Gone, But Neptune Noir Lives On
The world today moves faster than it ever has before. Television shows have fanbases that rapidly rise and fall with the tide. Incredibly vocal minorities decry the loss of characters, plotlines, and shows, all the while voraciously consuming everything written… Read More ›
You Call That an Apocalpyto?
With each successive film Mel Gibson has directed, he seems to become more and more removed from traditional filmmaking. That is not a complaint, certainly, as such, non-traditional fare still made within the Hollywood system can prove interesting, Passion of the… Read More ›
Being At World’s End With Those Pirates
What is there to say about Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End? It is a film that so totally and completely defies logic that to discuss it in logical terms seems foolish. It is a movie that actually seems… Read More ›
How To Destroy A Good Reveal on Television
Here’s the deal this morning, folks: I am not going to come out the box swinging (at least not at what you think). Sure, I’m upset that Veronica Mars is no more (but seriously, Kristen, if you need consoling, tell… Read More ›
Reading some Letters From Iwo Jima
It is an oft-repeated saying that there are two sides to every story. Filmically, I am hard pressed to imagine a better representation of this truism than Letters From Iwo Jima and Flags of our Fathers, the two films on… Read More ›
Do I like her? Well, I Digger
As people age they tend to think back and remember a simpler time, or the good old days, days when the world was less complicated, and life wasn’t quite so hard. Ever so gently asking people to rethink this is… Read More ›
The CW Doesn’t Have a Spot for Her, But Veronica Will Always Be Welcome In My Home
So, let’s get it out of the way, everyone can read this and then the complaints can start flooding in before the rest of the article is read, but let me just remind you: I didn’t make this schedule, it… Read More ›
There Is No Fate But What Fox Makes Of It
Well, this year Fox has done it again, they’ve put out multiple schedules for the coming season, one pre-Idol, one for January, and for the spring. And, as usual, it’s a little difficult to figure out exactly what’s going on… Read More ›
CBS Stays Safe, But Not Close to Home
Today it is CBS’s turn to step up to the plate and unveil their new fall schedule. Will it be heavy on the sci-fi, like NBC, will it repurpose car insurance commercials, like ABC, or will they finally bite the… Read More ›
It’s Real Time, It’s Strategy, It’s Ancient Wars: Sparta!!
In the world of real-time strategy (RTS) games, the bar has been set awfully high. Series like Command & Conquer and Warcraft have been hugely, monstrously, amazingly successful. This naturally causes other games to follow in their wake. Some of… Read More ›
Aishwarya Rai Gets Provoked
Aishwarya Rai’s latest effort to move outside of strictly Bollywood fare, Provoked (directed by Jag Mundhra), is based on the non-fiction book Circle of Light by Rahila Gupta and Kiranjit Ahluwalia. The movie and book focus on Ahluwalia’s life in… Read More ›
ABC All But Gives Up on the Funny This Fall
In recent years ABC has done a wonderful job developing new scripted hour-long series. They’ve had cultural phenomena galore, from Lost to Desperate Housewives, to Grey’s Anatomy to Ugly Betty. To be sure, they have put out some clunkers, too… Read More ›
Dinosaurs: Like Jurassic Park, But They Open Doors in a Good Way
People say that the traditional sitcom is becoming extinct. Ratings for them are down and the plots seem recycled — there’s a certain “been there, done that” feel to many traditional sitcoms. Looking at the recently released Dinosaurs – The… Read More ›
NBC Gets All Geeky This Fall
My goodness, the joy, the happiness, the wonder – NBC has released its schedule for the 2007-2008 television season! That’s right, the upfronts have begun, NBC is trying to figure out a way to stop the bleeding, something that they… Read More ›
Lohan has Serious Trouble Following More Than One Georgia Rule
Somewhere inside Garry Marshall’s latest directorial effort, Georgia Rule, there is a very good movie. However, as the film currently exists, it is nothing above average. Starring Lindsay Lohan, Jane Fonda, and Felicity Huffman, the film focuses on three generations… Read More ›
Veronica Mars and The Mystery of Season Four
I wake up this morning with a song in my heart and a spring in my step. The birds are chirping, the sky is a lovely blue, and Veronica Mars may live to solve more crimes this fall. I was… Read More ›
Got That Feeling? Then It’s Time to Go Potty Go!
There are many, many wonderful parents about parenting. They’re innumerable. Books have been written, stories have been told, and songs have been sung on such topics. But, there are bad parts too. Notably, for parents of young children anyway, is… Read More ›
Have You Ever Heard The Wolf Cry To The Blue Corn Moon? Me Neither. But, Nova Has.
Archaeology is not a hard science. It is speculation melded with myth, legend, wishes, hopes, and a few facts tossed in for good measure. Nothing makes this more clear than Nova’s latest episode, “Pocahontas Revealed.” This May marks the 400th… Read More ›
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