Cocktail (1988, D+). Shake jigger of smarm & dash of greed, top with paeon to female subservience. Beach Boys garnish. The Descendants (2011, B-) A VitaminWater film: slickly packaged to look nourishing, but really just the same old sugar-water. Corridors of Blood (1958, B+). Late-period Karloff turns “Tops in TERROR!!” poverty-row shocker into a chilling…
Author: Eric, your haikuist
The Wrestler (2008)
So the second time around with The Wrestler, I was struck even more by just how creaky and cliched the script was. But this time I appreciated it more. I didn’t really care that every twist and turn is predictable and shameless. I know it, and Darren Aronofsky and Micky Rourke know it. And this…
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
There’s a brilliant 90-minute film here: a Tolstoyesque tale of a group of men searching for the body of a murder victim, shot through with meditations on epistomology and haunting digital-video shots of rural Turkey at night. Unfortunately, that film is packed into a butt-numbing 157 minutes that manages to feel both austere and self-indulgent….
WWDC 2012
Jealous, nerds?, originally uploaded by Mister Wind-Up Bird. Just recovering from a slight cold I contracted whilst in San Francisco for the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference, known outside the developer community as “Are they going to announce a new iPhone? No? Maybe I heard something about an Apple TV? Not that either? Oh. So… what’s…
“None seek Eternity unless they desire power!”
Janelle: “You’re getting some grey hairs, at your temples.” “Like Dr Strange, this dimension’s Sorcerer Supreme?” I asked, hopefully. “No,” she said. “Not like that.”