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This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Just finished watching This Film Is Not Yet Rated, the documentary about the MPAA’s ratings board. It was, shall we say, eye-opening. There are three threads to its narrative: clips, quotes, and interviews with MPAA members; interviews with…

Blades of Glory

It was everything I dreamed it could be… and more.

[Editor's note: substantial posting will resume once I get done being sick.]

Breaking news: publishers’ math “fuzzy.” Film at 11.

The current issue of Entertainment Weekly has an amusing story about the court case between Clive Cussler and the studio who made Sahara. Here’s the part that made me fall out of my chair (emphasis mine):

More pointedly, though,

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sitrep

Sick. Been sick since Saturday. I’ve reached the stage of the cold where all the snot that’s left is gluey and won’t come out. My head feels like it’s been filled with molasses. I’m sure you are all thrilled to…

Oh, noes.

Having whipped through the entire Lord Peter series in the first two weeks of the year, I decided to see if the BBC miniseries/movies/whatevers were any good. Strong Poison came in the other day, so I popped it into…

The Holiday

I got to go see a sneak preview of The Holiday tonight with my friend Michelle, my chick flick buddy. I adored the trailer, and I thought if the movie was anything like it, I’d totally love it.

So…

The Illusionist, II

“The Illusionist,” it turns out, was reprinted in the 3rd Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. This is a good thing, because Millhauser’s original collection is hard to find, at least around here. Fortunately the library had this edition of the…

The Illusionist

It’s lovely. Go see.

Crank

Well. That was the Transporter 3 script with the serial numbers filed off, directed by a Tarantino wannabe and filmed by Baz Luhrmann’s demented evil twin.

It was worth it for the five seconds of Atari-style video game footage after…

Care to donate?

I’m taking up a collection to replace the brain cells I lost during the viewing of Talladega Nights. If you’d like to donate some gray matter, please let me know!

More quick reviews

Michael has declared Nacho Libre the worst. movie. ever.

“Worse than Ultraviolet?” I asked.

“Oh God, yes,” he said.

In other news, I finally got around to reading Old Man’s War. Very funny, good action, not too deep.…

2-second movie review: The New World

As slow, ponderous, and beautifully filmed as 2001, without the crazy computer to liven things up.

X3, no spoilers

Eh. Too many stories smushed together too quickly, and resolved in such a way as to greatly limit future story possibilities. That’s just a sloppy way to handle a series.

Writers (and Famke Janssen’s hairstylist): no biscuit. Everyone else…

Two-second late-night movie review

“The Thing Called Love.” Came highly recommended; not sure why. Great music. Great cast, except for River Phoenix, who seems so vacant that I presume he was stoned out of his mind the whole time they were filming.

As…

Ultraviolet: O… M… G…

Michael described it best: an hour-and-a-half-long German techno video with badly translated Japanese one-liners for dialogue.

Seriously, that was the worst movie I have ever seen.

I’m not sure I can convey the badness, but in the interest of saving…