(Spoiler alert.) A movie in the all-too slim category of Best Xmas Films Evah (with Action), THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT stars Geena Davis as an amnesiac undercover assassin – I know, right? what’s not to like! – whose past is coming back to bite her, then spin her around, then …
(Spoiler alert.) IN THE LAND OF WOMEN is a great film with a title bad enough to be a novel title. Yeah, I’ve said it. Actually & tangentially, I once started putting together a list of ‘best movies with the worst titles, in history’ but it turned out to be …
(With SPOILERS) BOURNE IDENTITY has so much to recommend it: it’s an action movie, an amnesia story (gosh, but I love amnesia stories) set in some of the more stunning parts of Europe, & it’s the movie where Matt Damon discovered he could be an action hero. Or, as Bourne …
(With SPOILERS) I just love the turn in SIXTEEN BLOCKS, the moment Bruce Willis goes from drunk deadbeat cop to hero. The entire movie spins on that point and even the camera spins, giving us Willis’s grim, slack face and his suddenly sharp & sober eyes. And he looks around, …
Code 46 grabbed me from the beginning, with its dark future, it’s brown open spaces and grey, constricted interior world. “Do you think the sun is as dangerous as they say it is?” “I hope not.” Follow @deborah_b
I am not at WorldCon in Glasgow. I am here. At home. Doing nothing much of interest. I am here, waiting for benpayne to start blogging AS IF he is at WorldCon in Glasgow, even though I know he isn’t. I am waiting to hear more adventures of his made-up …
When is it self-indulgence & when would you call it courage? When do you go from uncompromising to obscurantist, from individual to irrelevant, from subverting the dominant paradigm, to wilfully antagonistic? I saw ‘Yes’ the other night at the Syd Film Festival, a film written/directed by Sally Potter starring Joan …
Maybe if I’d heard the tagline for ‘The Machinist’ (above — & yes, it’s that film where Christian Bale looks as malnourished as a POW) before I saw the movie, I would’ve understood it more. Because that’s the thing… Follow @deborah_b
The old modem was really, really broken (what do you do with an old, broken modem? Anybody want one?) & the new modem was also a router. See? So, *of course* you don’t try to connect to it with PPPoE, you have to DHCP it. But the tech support types …
“Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy”: Funny, actually, funny & warm & none too taxing, but enjoyable. Sam Rockwell is fabulous, though not at all the Zaphod of my memory. Mos Def is a likeable & gentle Ford Prefect, & also apparently “one of hip-hop’s most introspective and insightful artist“. Huh. …
I am trying AGAIN to watch Matrix 3: Home Renovations, but AGAIN I am having difficulties. I have a couple of questions Follow @deborah_b
Five. FIVE NIGHTS without internet. Five of ‘em, count ‘em, I did. F.I.V.E. Definition of frustration: When your computer tells you, ‘Yes, I am connected to the internet. Oh, wait, no I’m not, no, wait, I am again, but oh, hang on, despite being connected, I cannot show you a …
So I saw BUBBA HO-TEP today, the movie based on the Bram Stoker award winning story by Joe R. Lansdale. And if that sentence doesn’t go halfway to explaining this movie, let me also add that it features an aging Elvis & an aging President Kennedy, trapped in a nursing …
Well, the Nebulas are up all over the place, & it makes me wonder: how on EARTH do you choose which is the better script out of these movies? 1. The Incredibles, by Brad Bird (Pixar, Nov 2004) 2. The Butterfly Effect, by J. Mackye Gruber and Eric Bress (New …
I’m not good with lists. Too moody. Too fickle. But because I was asked, here’s a few of my favourite films, in no particular order. (Note: for this particular list, I’ve defined ‘favourite’ as ‘something I can watch again & again & again’, not as ‘best made’ or ‘most insightful/compelling/thought-provoking/personally …
Many, many years ago, I did a favour for a neighbour and in return he gave me a bottle of red wine. Some time later he was chatting about this boutique vineyard he’d visited and oh, he said, did you like that wine? At this point my then-boyfriend leaned in …
What is the line, I wonder, between recognisable & cliche? Why do I find the family in THE INCREDIBLES endearing? Why do I laugh along with father Bob’s stiff back, & nod good-naturedly at the warring children, grinning while their mother tries to hold it all together by keeping the …