Monthly Archives: April 2011

I guess the summer starts in April now. If you like the Fast and Furious franchise, you won’t be disappointed with this iteration. In the internal chronological sequence of these movies this is technically the fourth, with Tokyo Drift being … Continue reading →

All right – this has hooked me big time. Two episodes in and I can barely wait for the next one. Well directed, scripted, acted. Great action, suspenseful… Geez, all this and Peter Dinklage too. And, so far at least, … Continue reading →

My favorite thing about Skyline is that aliens with astonishing technology travel lightyears across the stars to eat our brains. That is, unfortunately, the only thing I liked about the movie. But it seems such a carefully-constructed piece of marketing, … Continue reading →

for reasons unknown i just watched something called hunter prey on netflix instant play. science fiction. ship crashes on a planet–soldiers have to track and capture alive an escaped alien prisoner. some not so surprising reveals, some ham-fisted war on … Continue reading →

Late in Hereafter, tsunami victim and once-ruthless hot French journalist Marie DeLay reads from her investigation _Hereafter: A Conspiracy of Silence_, some lines about how we have such trouble dealing with death that we come up with foolish accounts that … Continue reading →

Is anyone watching this? It is the new AMC series, an American remake of the wildly popular Danish series. Each episode is one day in a police investigation of a killing, so presumably it will be solved in 12-13 days. … Continue reading →

Sherlock, the reboot which has Holmes texting to taunt Lestrade and Watson recently returned from Afghanistan, is a kick. Episode one (of three) recreates “A Study in Scarlet” with a lot of nice flourishes that an old Holmesteader could enjoy … Continue reading →

Mesrine tells the story of the real-life French gangster Jacques Mesrine (pronounced Merine), who was active as a bank robber, kidnapper, gun-runner and occasional radical in the 1960s and 1970s. He was finally gunned down in a deliberate execution by … Continue reading →