Life is full of existential questions. There is no denying this. Ever since we were born, we spend a lot of time wondering about the essence of things. Starting with the famous childhood question of who’s better, Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris (thanks to the movie Way of the Dragon, we now know) or the even more famous question of which was [...]
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Plasma? LCD? LED?
Life is full of existential questions. There is no denying this. Ever since we were born, we spend a lot of time wondering about the essence of things. Starting with the famous childhood question of who’s better, Bruce Lee or Chuck Norris (thanks to the movie Way of the Dragon, we now know) or the even more famous question of which was [...]
USS Enterprise Sucks
Until I got to watching Star Trek, I was really looking forward to space travel. What could be greater than wandering among the stars at speeds greater than c, testing relativity and coming back to Earth after the blink of an eye to find that weird math teacher who tortured you in highschool is dead and his family already extinct for generati [...]
Garage days revisited: Tron & Tr...
Touching a cult movie is a burden I never wish to bear nor would I wish it on anyone else. Cult movies are enshrined in a collective memory, carved in imagination that they become a reference against which all else is measured. The older the cult movie, the stronger its carving. The older the cult movie, the more fanatical its followers are. [...]
Sheldonesque
I guess many people are familiar with dr. Sheldon Cooper, star character in the geeky sitcom The Big Bang Theory. His compulsions and idiosyncracies gave birth to new adjectives sheldonesque and/or sheldonian, to define said particularities in our mundane lives.
Quite recently, I managed to pull a sheldonesque line. Story goes like this: I wa [...]
The End of Caprica
[singlepic id=158 w=240 h=180 float=left] So here you have it folks, proof of the fact that one sci-fi TV series can be just too good (via Twitter, October 27 2010 – the date of an announce demise). I\'ll pass along Mark Stern\'s note about #Caprica:
We appreciate all the support that fans have shown for #Caprica and are very proud of t [...]
Urban Fantasy: True Blood
The urban fantasy genre, also known as shhhh, they’re among us!, has always been a top seller amassing a great fanbase when it comes to books. In the past decade however, movie adaptations attempts failed miserably because (for some unknown reason) they tried to fill in the patterns and stereotypes of the high fantasy (also known as elv [...]
Reviewing Roger Ebert
In a while I used to hate movie critics. Not because they seem to pan every movie that came out since the Golden Age of Hollywood. It’s because most of them seem to think that every movie that comes out must deliver a new perspective on the human nature.
There are very few movie critics that understand the simple fact that cinematograph [...]
White Oleander
Of all the movies I’ve seen recently, this one seems to be the most impressive and I can say it’s left definitive scars on me, probably because it came at the right time … allowing me to better understand the story. (more…)
Grisham’s movies
I am sure that John Grisham’s name is far from unknown to commercial literature devourers. As a former lawyer himself, Grisham endows his novels with amazing detail with respect to legal procedures and practices while giving his characters a great degree of personality. (more…)
Who watches “Watchmen” ?
The thunderball of movies made from graphic novels is rolling ever since “V” came to the big screen and Batman was reinvented. We’re not talking “Looney tunes” here, not the old “Batman” movies or the caricatures of the second generation “Batman” movies, nor the feel-good “Superman&# [...]
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