I just saw Interstellar, misdirected by Christopher Nolan (who did a FAR better job with Inception) and wasting the talents of starring Matthew McConaughey, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine, John Lithgow, and David Oleyowo (who I really hope will do better playing Martin Luther King Jr. in the upcoming movie Selma). To say this movie was ( Read more... )

I watched the latest Star Trek movie some time ago, and wanted to write about it after my thoughts about it had cleared. Unfortunately, here it is, many weeks later, and my thoughts are still as muddled as when I left the theater. I've come to the conclusion that this is, quite simply, a hopelessly muddled movie ( Read more... )

Last Sunday morning, my partner and I got an unpaid gig as extras in a low-budget "Firefly" fanfic/spinoff titled Browncoats: Redemption. I have no idea what the plot is, other than the scene we were "in," in which the owner of a ship makes a typically dodgy deal with the kind of typically dodgy character who appears and drives most of the ( Read more... )

Okay, I finally saw Angels and Demons, the sequel to The DaVinci Code, in which Symbology Professor Robert Langton (Tom Hanks) is once again called upon to solve a problem for the Vatican using clues that were literally under their noses the whole time, but that they couldn't do anything with because they'd forgotten 90% of their own organizational ( Read more... )

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boztopia has this excellent (though very spoilerific) review of the movie X-Men III: The Last Stand, in which he discusses the acting, plot, and other artistic considerations; so I'll confine my ramblings to the moral and political questions which the movie raises. If you haven't seen the movie yet, go see it, and then get back to this post.

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...without thunderous applause.

I think it should be pretty obvious by now that the entire Star Wars franchise has finally run out of steam. The carefree energy and not-quite-serious tone that made the first Star Wars movie such an irresistable hit was hard enough to sustain through three movies, let alone six, or the nine originally envisioned ( Read more... )