text reviews
(INCEPTION) “This is the really REAL world…”
September 21st, 2010
“… there ain’t no comin’ back!” – a babbling T-Bird, from The Crow (this is part of a series on Inception with increasing SPOILERS – start with the spoiler-free intro here.) Inception deals with the limitations of our subjective stance – as creatures, not Creator – and even as Cobb’s team puts together dreams, architecting – [...]
Read More...Last Exorcism Botches & Blairs (witch, not Linda)
September 17th, 2010
Whether you’ve grown tired or more intrigued by the faux-documentaries of late (popularized and polarized by The Blair Witch Project and continuing with films like Cloverfield and [REC] or the American Quarantine) The Last Exorcism starts with a promising first act and I’d recommend the first half hour be required viewing for pastors. Sadly, the second [...]
Read More...Subjecting yourself to INCEPTION…
September 10th, 2010
“Our dreams, they feel real while we’re in them right? Its only when we wake up then we realize that something was actually strange!” – Cobb, from Inception “…most recent philosophers, since the Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, have concluded that scientific knowledge is systematic knowledge of the nature of existing things as [...]
Read More...From Cliffhangers to TopSpinners via INCEPTION
August 27th, 2010
The term “cliffhanger” emerged between the early 1900s and 1937 in silent films, featuring (according to Wikipedia) “a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma, or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction… hoped to ensure the audience will return to see how the characters resolve the [...]
Read More...Waking from INCEPTION
August 24th, 2010
“What’s the most resilient parasite? An Idea. A single idea from the human mind can build cities. An idea can transform the world and rewrite all the rules.” What is Christopher Nolan REALLY trying to tell us with his arguable masterpiece of cinema that made the box office wake up with a start this summer? [...]
Read More...A SHINING Overlook with Stanley
July 13th, 2010
My wife and I took a road trip from Seattle to Colorado and up into Wyoming to attend a conference and see Yellowstone National Park. With a rented Mustang convertible and over 9 hours of classic rock inspired by the television show Supernatural courtesy of our friend Dean (not THAT Dean), we found a cinema [...]
Read More...IRON MAN 2: The Legacy of Howard Stark
May 19th, 2010
All I can give you is my knowledge. – Howard Stark From the opening, smirking speech Tony delivers at the beginning of Iron Man 2 to old newsreel footage of the impetuous Stark’s very 50s father, “legacy” is a key theme of the film (as mentioned in our inaugural video review). What kind of legacy are [...]
Read More...A SUPERNATURAL Affection
May 13th, 2010
I’ll confess, I’m more than a little excited about the season finale of Supernatural tonight, the culmination of a five-year escalation of biblical proportions for the Winchester boys, Sam and Dean. One miraculous byproduct of the show is that I’m still even watching it; my wife and I canned our viewing regimen in season one [...]
Read More...BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN’s ponderous ponderosa
April 22nd, 2010
I saw it, and – SHOCK! – I’m not gay. I know that a strange contingent of the conservative Christian community seems to think that by the mere watching of a film like Brokeback Mountain – with its “homosexual agenda” – a straight guy might develop a queer eye, but nothing could be further from the [...]
Read More...Weak God, Limp Lucifer & Wooden Jesus
April 15th, 2010
Although we discussed imperfect Greek gods, and modern myths of a “more fallible Creator” in the last post, the new Clash of the Titans DOES stray from classic polytheism and polarizes the war between Zeus and Hades; save for a few scenes, the rest of the pantheon is scarce. It’s a much more westernized, even [...]
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