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Top movies

Having finally watched Das Boot recently, I'm now a step closer to having seen the top 75 of the IMDB's... (More...)

Heathers revisited

The other night, Twig and I were trying to decide what movie to watch, and I remembered that we'd talked... (More...)

The Big Snit

Somehow I seem to have failed to link to Canadian animator Richard Condie's 1985 short film "The Big Snit," one... (More...)

Jane Austen Book Club (movie)

Finally saw the movie of The Jane Austen Book Club. For some reason, I had gotten the impression that it... (More...)

Romantic comedy recommendations?

About six and a half hours from now, I'm heading for the airport, whence I'll fly to Chicago for a... (More...)

A few notes on women in fiction

tacityhydra just mentioned the Mo Movie Measure in passing; I was going to post this comment in response to that... (More...)

Two movie questions

Two questions re movies in the '80s: 1. Summer of '96 (I think), I decided to introduce Repo Man to... (More...)

Review: The Golden Compass (movie)

Kam and I saw the movie of The Golden Compass tonight. There may be some minor spoilers in this entry.... (More...)

Watchmen movie notes

They've started shooting the Watchmen movie! For a March, 2009 release! A blog entry on the official site shows some... (More...)

Meta-review: The Triplets of Belleville

The two things that everyone mentioned about The Triplets of Belleville back when it came out were that the movie... (More...)

Review (sorta): Picnic at Hanging Rock

Last night I was in the mood to watch a movie. The only one of my Netflix movies that I... (More...)

Forthcoming movies

At the last movie I saw in a theatre (one of this summer's part-three installments--maybe Spider-Man 3?), I saw a... (More...)

Week, movies, socializing, books, travel, etc

I never did get around to writing here about the tall ships. I would still like to, but the chances... (More...)

Howl's Moving Castle inventiveness

One quick note about the commentary on Howl's Moving Castle: A bunch of people in the supplemental materials on the... (More...)

Review: I, Robot (movie)

I liked it quite a bit. (More...)

Assorted updates

I once again find myself struck with blogging paralysis--too many things I want to write about, not enough time to... (More...)

Snakes in no pain

I have no interest in seeing Snakes on a Plane, but I've been amused and/or interested by some articles related... (More...)

Video roundup, part 1

It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a... (More...)

What you should know ahead of time about Superman Returns

The following is a spoiler, of a sort; kind of a meta-spoiler. But I nonetheless claim that almost everyone will enjoy Superman Returns more if they know this than if they don't know it; knowing this will help you set your expectations appropriately (and most of you probably know it already anyway). However, I know some people won't want to know it, in which case don't read the rest of this entry.

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Review: The Da Vinci Code

Kam and I saw The Da Vinci Code a couple weeks ago. A few thoughts and comments: I haven't read... (More...)

More parkour

I coulda sworn that I posted at some point about parkour, the French sport/skill involving urban running, jumping, climbing, and... (More...)

Review: Fantastic Four

Kam and I finally saw Fantastic Four. It was, pretty much as expected, fun fluff. Better than Daredevil (which I... (More...)

About spoiler warnings

(This is another case where I wrote most of the entry months ago but didn't get around to posting it... (More...)

Ghibli Earthsea trailer

Studio Ghibli has released a second trailer for Gedo Senki, a.k.a. Tales from Earthsea. You may have to right-click that... (More...)

Five-minute summaries

Peter W. pointed to the Five-Minute "Battlestar Galactica: The Miniseries" comic. Sort of in the style of the old Fotonovels,... (More...)

Journaling paralysis (and general update)

And after all that fuss about how I was going to flood y'all with entries, I ended up not posting... (More...)

Long week

Assorted bits and pieces from the past week or so (some good, some not): (More...)

Items: Video

Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some... (More...)

Earworm: Somewhere That's Green

The other day the song "Somewhere That's Green" (from Little Shop of Horrors, though I have the movie soundtrack rather... (More...)

Africa, the Other, and sf

Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's... (More...)

Review: King Kong

Finally got around to seeing the new King Kong. As usual, this won't be so much a review as a... (More...)

Economy and efficiency as motivations in fiction

Something I see quite often in both submissions and published fiction (including movies) is plots that hinge on people taking... (More...)

Star Wars misconceptions

While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on The misconceptions you had about... (More...)

Productive

Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes... (More...)

Outline of Narnian history, plus nitpicking

I'm continuing to re-read the Narnia books. Will have more to say about that sooner or later, but for now,... (More...)

Superman Returns

Last month, Nick pointed to the teaser trailer for what he called Jesus Christ, Superman, for reasons that will become... (More...)

Review: Rent

It's been Jed's movie week. Narnia last weekend; Æon Flux Monday night; Brokeback Mountain last night (review to come later).... (More...)

Review: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

The Narnia movie was splendid. I went into it with very high hopes and a lot of trepidation. The hopes... (More...)

Review: Aeon Flux

Watched the new movie of Æon Flux after work this evening. The first third or so was every bit as... (More...)

Items: Comics, videos, photos

Assorted comics and comics-related items, plus a few cat and lizard photos, and some other stuff. Nifty comic strip in... (More...)

Review: It Should Happen to You

I've been hearing for years about It Should Happen to You: directed by George (My Fair Lady, Philadelphia Story) Cukor,... (More...)

Last Unicorn movie

A couple years ago, I found out that there were plans for a live-action movie of one of my favorite... (More...)

Forthcoming movies

Been meaning to post about these for weeks. Aeon Flux! Starring Charlize Theron, a welcome addition to the hot female... (More...)

This and that

(Yikes! No wonder the comment-spam levels have dropped precipitously—I broke the comments-display pages for my and Mary Anne's journals a... (More...)

Things done and undone

I started reading a submission just now and realized that I wasn't awake enough to read it, even though it... (More...)

Visual entertainment, party, etc

(This entry cobbled together in spare moments between bouts of magazine work over the past day or two.) In the... (More...)

Items: Movie, gullibility, names, androids

I've been posting a lot of personal stuff, and occasional sf-related stuff, but not very much Links To Cool And/Or... (More...)

Items: Shifting paradigms

Feeling a little better than yesterday, but still not up to going to work. Yesterday I didn't do nearly enough... (More...)

Robot Stories

We're back from Robot Stories. I'll write a real review of it at some point, but I wanted to briefly... (More...)

Three Laws rephrased

The fake robot-ad trailer for the upcoming I, Robot movie came out a few months ago, but now there's a... (More...)

Spellbound (the spelling bee movie)

Various people told me I would love this movie, but I think I just don't like documentaries much. I spend... (More...)

Review: Adaptation

Hmm—one of the few drawbacks to the tabbed browsing in the new version of Safari is that it's too easy... (More...)

Bend it like a unicorn

Last night Kam and I went to a lovely Burmese/Chinese restaurant in downtown Palo Alto, a place called Rangoon that... (More...)

Review: The Sum of All Fears

Watched The Sum of All Fears tonight. A surprisingly good movie, at least if you don't care about being true... (More...)