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  • Good Point

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    slushgod points out why Steven Speilberg should not be allowed to direct science fiction films. Remarkably brief post.

  • Lines in the sand. Or, in the dirt.

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    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 Allen and Sam Neil, delivered…

  • ‘How can you wake from a nightmare if you can’t sleep?’

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    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…

  • It was the modem & also, the other modem

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    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 (of whom there were several)…

  • “You seem jumpy Carter, did you switch from mocha to crack?”

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    “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. Well … weird. Also loved…

  • Wheels they just keep on turning

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    I am trying AGAIN to watch Matrix 3: Home Renovations, but AGAIN I am having difficulties. I have a couple of questions

  • I felt like destroying something beautiful

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    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 single page on the WWW…

  • Good old boys

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    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 home, being preyed upon by…

  • Nebulous

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    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 Line Cinema, Jan 2004) 3.…

  • Because I was asked

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    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 significant’ — all criteria I…