It’s interesting how easily “Groundhog Day” could well have been done as drama/horror. Hat tip to Sippican Cottage. ..bruce w..
I didn’t have plans to go see “The Book of Eli”, even though the trailer made it look like “Fallout 3: The Movie” (I happen to be a big fan of “Fallout 3“). But then I read some early reviews that indicated that “Eli” might indeed be worth seeing, so my sweet wife Sandra and [...]
Continue reading about “The Book of Eli”: a brief review (w/spoilers)
I saw “Avatar” (in 3-D) yesterday afternoon and saw “Sherlock Holmes” this afternoon.
I’ll be going back to see “Sherlock Holmes” again, probably within a week; “Avatar” will have to wait for DVD, if then.
“Avatar” is worth seeing once on the large screen, in 3-D, just for the sheer visual spectacle and technical brilliance. But the [...]
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xkcd hits it again. Click on the comic to see the original (larger) version. ..bruce w..
Fake movie trailer mashups are among my favorite videos on the ‘net. This one imagines a 1951 version of “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, staring Charlton Heston as Indiana Jones. Quite well done. with some great footage. ..bruce w..
The original “Star Trek” series started on NBC the same month I started my freshman year at Grossmont High. It ran two and a half seasons before dying, but eventually spawned a long list of movies and four successive TV series (ST: The Next Generation, ST: Deep Space Nine, ST: Voyager, and Enterprise) — not [...]
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OVERNIGHT LINK (note the singular)
ITEM: The Onion has become so much better than Saturday Night Live at video humor:
Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’
Well, that’s probably it for the day. I have work to do. ..bruce w..
OVERNIGHT LINKS (and don’t go waiting for any updates, either)
ITEM: Headline of the week: “Spacetime May Have Fractal Properties on a Quantum Scale.”
ITEM: Economic common sense from … Germany?
ITEM: There is some justice in the world, after all: “Vindictive people make less money.”
ITEM: On the other hand, this explains a lot: “Expert financial advice [...]