When you watch the trailer, you know this movie’s going to be fun. You’ve got Julia Roberts and Clive Owen as a pair of corporate spies, dancing a romantic tango while play both sides of a con job on two competing Proctor & Gamble-sized mega-corporations. This movie could have been a cakewalk for both the…
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DRADIS goes dark: Battlestar Galactica finale
The two-hour series finale of Battlestar Galactica was going to be great. It was going to answer all our questions (but not too neatly). It was going to bring our survivors to a new home planet (but not Earth). It was going to give us a nice farewell to all our favorite characters (but not…
Knowing – Movie Review
I should have listened to the voices in my own head. I saw a clever, quasi-sci-fi premise in the movie trailer, but I told myself that like others before it (See also Number 23, or The Happening), the writers will not be able to carry the premise to an interesting conclusion. Add to that Nicolas…
Midseason 2009, Part 3: March
Yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but I’m still posting about midseason TV (I promise this is the last one). As the TV season continues on, some shows actually ended in March, but a few others just began. I love how this new rolling TV schedule keeps things interesting all year round. Reaper The…
Watchmen — Movie review
In the geek universe, there is no more anticipated film this year than Watchmen. The complex story is set in an alternate 1980s where someone is killing off costumed superheroes, an omnipotent nuclear man wrestles with his humanity, and the world lies at the brink of Armageddon. Adapting the widely-acclaimed graphic novel masterpiece to the…
Midseason 2009, Part 2: February
Dollhouse Not many shows (of interest to me) debuted in February, but my most anticipated new show finally emerged from its cocoon of hype. Buffy and Angel creator Joss Whedon’s new series Dollhouse premiered two Fridays ago and I hadn’t been this excited about a show for a long time (and if you look around…
The International – Movie Review
It’s no big insight that action movies tend to take our societal boogey-men and make them into villains. In times like these, when the downfall of global banks is so acutely felt, it should come as no surprise that The International pits our hero against a corrupt multi-national banking magnate. Clive Owen seems to have…
Books come to life: Coraline and Inkheart – Movie Reviews
I really like the trend to bring books to the screen. I especially like it when they bring fantasy books to life because the technology has reached the point where they can really make magical elements look convincingly real. That hurdle out of the way, fantasy books (especially children and young adult fantasy) have so…
Oscar, Schmoscar 2009
Last year’s Oscars are pretty dead to me. Even to this day I have not watched any of the big winners (I didn’t even do an “Oscar, Schmoscar” post in ’08). This year is a whole other story. I was excited about many of the movies before they even got nominated. I’ve already reviewed The…
