Category Archives: Criticism

2010 Feb 21 Sunday

Better than The Phantom Menace…

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…is this humorous, multi-part video review of The Phantom Menace.

by Dr. Agonize @ 6:41 pm

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2010 Feb 20 Saturday

EWM ISO good podcast about film…

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Trying to find a good podcast about film, I decided listening to episodes concerned with reviewing Avatar would be a good litmus test. So I grabbed the /Filmcast’s one and was impressed by some of it, yet other parts of is made me want to stick an ice pick in my ear…

by Dr. Agonize @ 4:12 pm

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2010 Feb 08 Monday

Is Lost turning into an Apocalypse Now rip-off?

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I love the Internet. I was able to watch the second half of “Lost” Season 5 in just a few days thanks to Netflix. Now I’m watching the season six double premiere. Living in the future is pretty sweet. (But what’s with still not having flying cars!?!?) Stuff has indeed gone pear-shaped for the survivors [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 2:40 am

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2010 Jan 10 Sunday

Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes (2009)

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I was shocked and pleased at the end of Sherlock Holmes when the director’s credit was shown. I’d either forgotten or ignored that it was a Guy Ritchie movie. After Revolver and Rocknrolla my faith in his abilities had taken a couple of hard hits. With Holmes, Ritchie delivers a solid period/mystery thriller/actioner. Sherlock Holmes [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 4:29 pm

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2010 Jan 10 Sunday

Movie Review: Avatar (2009)

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I was super-reluctant to give in to the hype and see this movie, but I was very glad that I did give in when my brother asked me to go see it with him. I was pretty disappointed by Titanic, but it was nice to know that the man behind Aliens and Terminator still knows [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 4:22 pm

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2009 Sep 23 Wednesday

Rereading William Gibson

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Tried to get Mary interested in Neuromancer, but it wasn’t her cup of tea. I delved back into Count Zero because I’d reread Neuromancer not too long ago, and hadn’t finished out the trilogy that second time. Never read them in the right order in the first place anyway. Count Zero surprised me. Made me [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 1:59 pm

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2009 Sep 17 Thursday

Great new podcast: Doug Loves Movies

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This is technically not new, but it is new to me, and I’ve been consuming it nonstop for about a week. Comedian and twitterholic Doug Benson (“Stoner of the Year 2006″ according to High Times Magazine) hosts a show at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles that he records and later puts on iTunes for [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:43 am

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2009 Aug 26 Wednesday

Some dude online takes “District 9″ way too seriously

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Somehow I found a blog post about a comment to another blog post about the movie “District 9″ which bugged me: The move slips at its own convenience between heroic presentation and after-the-fact video artifact, which threatens the integrity of the premise but, much worse, leaves us kind of stranded as viewers… Kriston Capps, author [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 12:05 am

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2009 Aug 20 Thursday

Movie review: District 9

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Everyone is buzzing about this film and they are right: it’s good. Outstanding story and special effects. Director Neill Blomkamp proved many years ago that he is in the top echelon of artists who combine a cinema verité filming style with a compelling story. If you’re not familiar with the premise, a huge alien “mother [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 11:52 pm

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2009 Jul 18 Saturday

Bruce Sterling At Reboot 2009 (via Warren Ellis)

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Sterling is a creative sci-fi author (a.k.a. speculative fiction novelist) and blogger about the state of things and how that will shape what is to come (a.k.a. futurist). He’s not one to pussyfoot around an impending crisis, or mince words about valuable contribution to human society. In that vein, he gave a downright sobering lecture [...]

by Dr. Agonize @ 3:00 pm

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