The Wire (2002-2008)
The Wire (2002-2008) – Okay, so I’ve tried to do this TV Blog a couple times… When I started up the blog I was writing about every episode of most shows I watched. It was a pain in the ass and was sapping the enjoyment I get out of television. I decided to abandon it … Continue reading
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) – This review is going to be pretty short because I don’t have much in the way of thoughts about this movie. The film is about the often tumultuous relationship between war correspondent Martha Gellhorn (Nicole Kidman) and famed novelist Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen). They go to Spain during Franco’s takeover … Continue reading
Tiny Furniture (2010)
Tiny Furniture (2010) – Humor is a weird and pretty personal thing. Some things you find funny. Some things you don’t. We like to make these guiding principles of “oh this type of thing is what I find funny and that type of thing I don’t” but really it’s whatever random shit hits our fancy … Continue reading
Angels in America (2003)
Angels in America (2003) – For a while, the premium cable network Home Box Office had the slogan “It’s not TV, it’s HBO.” This mainly reflected the artistically challenging shows they aired like The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Deadwood, and The Wire (of course they also ran Sex and the City, so I guess it … Continue reading
Game Change (2012)
Game Change (2012) – I am of the belief that film criticism should be based on nothing more than the quality of a film. However, human beings are fallible and not beyond their own biases. A film like Game Change seems impossible to separate from one’s own political predispositions so allow to me to state … Continue reading
Enlightened – “Pilot”
Enlightened – “Pilot” I know this aired last week, but I really fell behind on the TV blogging. I have been a big fan of HBO as a network. I have liked every show I have seen on their network: from The Larry Sanders Show to Boardwalk Empire, they’ve got a pretty damn impressive run … Continue reading
Superheroes (2011)
Superheroes (2011) – Last year there was a movie (based on a comic book) called Kick-Ass, about an ordinary teenager without any special powers who decides to become a superhero. The movie started fairly “realistically” (he gets beat up, suffers some nerve damage, manages to beat some criminals up, becomes a YouTube celebrity) before venturing … Continue reading
The Special Relationship (2010)
The Special Relationship (2010) — So this is the third of writer Peter Morgan’s “Tony Blair Trilogy” (after The Deal and The Queen) starring Michael Sheen as Blair. I didn’t see those other two movies though so I went in free of expectation. I thought Sheen was great and can see why they keep asking … Continue reading
You Don’t Know Jack (2010)
You Don’t Know Jack (2010) — How you feel about this movie will probably be decided by your predetermined biases. If you are fundamentally opposed to euthanasia, you will probably not be receptive to this movie (but who knows, maybe it will change your mind). I myself am a proponent of the right-to-die movement so … Continue reading
Temple Grandin (2010)
Temple Grandin (2010) — So this is a made-for-HBO that has been sitting unwatched on my DVR for about two months before I finally got around to watching it. It’s the story of Temple Grandin (Claire Danes), an autistic woman who in the 1960s & 70s overcame the disadvantages of her condition to revolutionize the … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 