movies

Instapundit: New Star Wars movie insta-stinks

Ouchie! The Professor reviews the new Star Wars movie, and let’s just say that he wasn’t a fan: Actors’ words didn’t always sync perfectly with their lips, nobody even tried to capture room ambience to match the settings, and the lines often sounded dubbed — delivered as if into a microphone while reading hurriedly from […]

When favorites converge

In this week’s Entertainment Weekly, one of my favorite writers, Stephen King, reviews the new Jimmy Fallon romantic sports comedy Fever Pitch– adapted for the screen from a book by another one of my favorite writers and directed by my favorite filmmakers. The plot of the movie? It’s a chronicle of the highs and lows

Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg’s “”Must I Paint You A Picture“” (from Walking & Talking) is one of the best movie-ending-soundtrack-songs ever.

Die Another Day DVD

Sitting down to watch Die Another Day on special edition DVD, even though it doesn’t officially come out here in the US until tomorrow. Thank you again, half.com.

The new Bond makes up for the breaking desk…

On this desk that I’m sitting at, the left side of the slideout keyboard tray has been steadily detaching from the side of the desk for the past few days…every time I hear an ominous crack, the left side of the keyboard tilts down slighty to the left, leaving us typing on an ever-growing tilt.