Since everybody else is revisiting Titanic, I guess I will too. Today on Jacksonville public radio they had on the author of 101 Things You Thought You Knew About the Titanic…But Didn’t. It was interesting enough, although at this point the things I don’t know about the Titanic fall generally into the category of […]
Something’s wrong with ‘Super 8’
It’s always disheartening when you see a movie that sucks to high heaven and then go on Rotten Tomatoes and discover that the critics liked it better than the audience did. That’s hardly ever the case. But with Super 8 (2011), an astonishing 82 percent of the critics overlooked the fact that it is […]
In ‘Midnight in Paris,’ the city is the star
We finally got around to seeing Midnight in Paris. It’s a pleasant little movie, funny in places and never really tedious. Like most stuff by Woody Allen, you could guess this is one of his without ever seeing his name in the credits. Sometimes it almost seems that Owen Wilson is impersonating the director, […]
We’ve seen this show before
Really, the only reason anybody watches the Oscars is so they can carp about it the next day, or text clever remarks during the show itself. I’m no different. I had my laptop out and was trying to run with the best of them, but I gave up after about an hour. There was […]
Mrs. Palin will be right back
OK, now Romney rules in Nevada too. I guess we saw that coming. But one thing that’s puzzled me about the GOP race is this: Whatever happened to Sarah Palin? I realize she long ago ruled out a run for president — a simple scheduling conflict — but I considered her incapable of keeping […]
Netflix as a force for global understanding
One thing about having guests from Cuba when you don’t speak Spanish: You can quickly run out of things to talk about after dinner. Naturally, I turned to Netflix. Netflix has a modest catalog of Spanish films. I thought I did too, but it turns out nearly all my DVDs offer only French and […]
A little too much magic
Sometimes you watch movies by yourself because you don’t want anyone else to know you’re watching these movies. I don’t mean porn. I’m talking about Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. I recently reactivated the old Netflix DVD queue and for some reason stuck Part 1 on there, along with a few other recent […]
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