I read and heard a lot of superlatives about James Cameron’s Avatar in the last two months. Some from well-known critics and mostly from the gen-pop — “awesome”. I knew very little about the story itself and that may have helped ground my expectations closer to Earth than Pandora. I waited for the opportunity, and [...]
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A Little Further From Fact
I reluctantly accompanied my friends to the airport four hours before my flight time, all three of us fooling me that I would be able to spend the one hour between their flight and mine watching birds. Little did I know that I would have preferred watching hens hatching eggs to that long wait. On [...]
My Unique Movie Watching Experience
The first time I heard about The Man From Earth was a few months ago. The movie is an hour-long discussion of sorts that ensues when a pedagogue presents to his colleagues the hypothesis of a man who has been alive for the past 14000 years. We can imagine how this could go on. My [...]
Terminator Series Salvaged
I was expecting McG’s Terminator Salvation to wind up the Terminator series, an entirely unoriginal and irrational expectation. Little did I know to interpret the title literally: “Terminator Salvation” means “a means of preserving Terminator (series)”. Go lookup the dictionary. In The Terminator (1984) a T-800 model was sent from the future to kill Sarah [...]
Happy Birthday Roger Ebert
Today is Roger Ebert’s birthday. Sixty-seven years young. I wish him a long prose-ful life. A little more than a year ago, I discovered his official website and journal. It was easy to identify my role model in criticism and I started religiously reading his reviews and blogs, even though I have little chance of [...]