The life and times of a fallen hacker
Posted in movies on Feb 25th, 2008
Not too bad, hit rate of 50%:
Leading actor - Daniel Day Lewis, check.
Supporting actor - Javier Bardem, check.
Leading actress - Marion Cotillard, nope.
Supporting actress - Tilda Swinton, nope, haven’t seen Michael Clayton, but she ought to be very good to beat Amy Ryan.
Animated feature - Ratatouille, […]
Posted in movies on Feb 24th, 2008
Saw the Coen Brothers’ latest movie, No Country for Old Men, and quite liked it, and was quite perplexed by it.
This is a movie that resembles a western in all but the era, set in the early eighties, it gives convenient access to the war in Vietnam and old relatives reminiscing about the […]
Posted in movies on Feb 24th, 2008
Haven’t seen but a tiny fraction of the nominees, so the next list is bound to have gaping holes in its logic:
Leading actor
Daniel Day-Lewis’ performance in There will be Blood has been raved so widely, that this is an easy pick.
Supporting actor
Javier Bardem. On account of his worrisomely manic killer in No Country for […]
Posted in censorship, finland, movies, music, web on Feb 24th, 2008
In addition to the raging internet censorship “debate” - of which wise things have already been written.
Debate is intentionally quoted above, since argument-wise this is a case of shooting fish in a barrel, and does not resemble a real debate in any way.
In descending order of international visibility:
Fedora vs. […]
Posted in movies on Feb 16th, 2008
Yes, the old adages don’t hold when it comes to reviewing bad movies. If the movie does not warrant anything nice to be said about it, you better make the disrespect itself worthy to read.
Posted in movies on Feb 12th, 2008
This is a long overdue review of Ben Affleck’s debut as a director: Gone Baby Gone. This is the second film of a Dennis Lehane novel, and while good, it does not reach the lofty heights of Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River.
The story is the fourth in the five-novel Kenzie/Gennaro-series, and this makes […]
Posted in movies, naked link on Jan 25th, 2008
Quantum of Solace? Doesn’t really roll off the tongue like “Goldfinger” or “Live and Let Die”. But it is the name of a bona fide Ian Fleming story.
Empire, the finest movie magazine in the world, has kicked off a third iteration of its famous quotes quiz.
The ninety carefully selected bits of dialogue have been divided into three categories. And while the bits of rhetoric available in the hardest category are well-nigh impossible (I’ve scored a grand total of two out of […]
Posted in gadgets, movies, television on Jan 8th, 2008
Sony actually backed the right horse in the high definition dvd contest. Unlike any of its previous massive intelligence failures on ATRAC, minidisc, Betamax and the like, Sony’s choice looks like it’s going to dominate the market.
With Paramount following Warner Bros. annoucement, the list of HD-DVD is short indeed.
I don’t […]
Posted in movies on Jan 6th, 2008
Rounding out the triplet of movies watched over the christmas break is 4 Weeks, 3 Months and 2 Days, the Romanian movie that took the Palme d’Or in Cannes in 2007.
Sadly, the sad tale of an abortion in the late eighties Bucharest remains as gray as the dilapidated city.
The story is […]
Posted in movies on Jan 5th, 2008
As the first western movie in fifteen years, watched 3:10 To Yuma. At least I figure I haven’t paid to see any since Clint Eastwood’s almighty Unforgiven. With two more westerns featured in the trailers (the improbably named Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and the newest Daniel Day-Lewis vehicle, […]
Posted in movies on Jan 5th, 2008
As the traditional day-before-christmas-eve-movie (going strong after eighteen years), watched Chris Weitz’s Golden Compass, the first film based on Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. I quite liked the books back in the day, and the zeppelin-equipped trailer piqued my interest even further. How did things play out in the long form?
Quite well. […]