Last point about Avatar I wanted to make: Movie-makers have had a lot of fun blurring the lines between the real world and artificial worlds. Only recently have they been doing the same thing with real and artificial selves. And I think there’s a reason for that. Only in the age of online communities and […]

Saw “Avatar” two weeks ago, and some observations about it stay with me  — some things it was trying to say, some things it did say, and the differential between the two.
(Two quick caveats: 1 - This will include spoilers. 2 - I’m not sure it will make sense if you haven’t seen the movie.) […]

Greg sent me this link with his usual brief subject line: Bloggable. He’s right, it is.
Disney has decided not to fund the third Narnia movie. They cite the low returns of ‘Prince Caspian.’ But that last Narnia movie made $419 million worldwide, (compared with the $249 million gross for a non-Christian fantasy movie like ‘Eragon’), […]

Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers.”
“If you knew Time as well as I do,” said the Hatter, “you wouldn’t talk about wasting it. It’s him. … Now, if you only kept on good terms with him, […]

I just rented a pay-per-view movie that I really, really disliked. I disliked it so much that I didn’t pause it when I went downstairs to get a snack. And once I was down there, I unloaded the dishwasher and took the astonished dog out for a long backyard potty break. But it was no […]

Went to see ‘300′ yesterday, the movie about the war of 300 Spartans against Xerxes I and the Persian armies. It’s based on a real battle — link HERE. Since it comes from a graphic novel, it has the composition, lighting and special effects that have really changed the experience of seeing these movies — […]

I know it’s hardly the thing to consider taking in a movie during Holy Week, but if by any chance you can find the time, you might want to find out if “The Last Mimzy” is playing near you, because I suspect it won’t be in theaters long. I mean, here’s a movie about children […]

Channel-flipping yesterday, I happened across the movie “Hitch.” Though it seemed like a pleasant-enough bit of fluff and probably a good vehicle for Will Smith, I found I had to change the channel again after a short time, because the plot that was unfolding touched on something that’s becoming a bit of a pet peeve […]

I remember an Saturday Night Live routine from the 80s spoofing the presidential debate between George H. W. Bush and Michael Dukakis. Dana Carvey did his usual fuddled and idiotic Bush floundering through two minutes of debate time with nothing at all to say. When he was finished and the moderator asked Dukakis if he […]

Well, I just commented that this really is a good movie in spite of my criticism below, and as if to make my point, I find that there are lots of little odds and ends about it that seemed worthy of their own blog entry. How’s that for an endorsement?
(In case it needs to be […]