Long week
Assorted bits and pieces from the past week or so (some good, some not):
Archive for Movies
Items: Video
Links to a bunch of cool online video items, for your delectation and enjoyment. Some of these require Flash; some...
Earworm: Somewhere That’s Green
The other day the song "Somewhere That's Green" (from Little Shop of Horrors, though I have the movie soundtrack rather...
Africa, the Other, and sf
Some items that may or may not add up to more than the sum of their parts: Okay, so there's...
Review: King Kong
Finally got around to seeing the new King Kong. As usual, this won't be so much a review as a...
Economy and efficiency as motivations in fiction
Something I see quite often in both submissions and published fiction (including movies) is plots that hinge on people taking...
Star Wars misconceptions
While checking the quote in that last entry, I stumbled into a forum thread on The misconceptions you had about...
Productive
Here are some of the things I've done in the past week, in no particular order: finally washed some dishes...
Outline of Narnian history, plus nitpicking
I'm continuing to re-read the Narnia books. Will have more to say about that sooner or later, but for now,...
Superman Returns
Last month, Nick pointed to the teaser trailer for what he called Jesus Christ, Superman, for reasons that will become...
Review: Rent
It's been Jed's movie week. Narnia last weekend; Æon Flux Monday night; Brokeback Mountain last night (review to come later)....
Review: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Narnia movie was splendid. I went into it with very high hopes and a lot of trepidation. The hopes...