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As a fan of the Cohen Bros. - I even liked Barton ...

2009-02-24T20:40:00.000-06:00

As a fan of the Cohen Bros. - I even liked Barton Fink - I found "Burn" to be a huge waste of celluloid. Extremely disappointing in my view.

We don't get out much these days. We saw Kung Fu P...

2009-02-23T22:21:00.000-06:00

We don't get out much these days. We saw Kung Fu Panda. Wall-E. Tale of Despereaux. You get the idea. We did just see Burn After Reading--a movie about nothing, but fairly amusing nothing.

The Guns of Navarone! Now there is a great flick....

2009-02-23T21:11:00.000-06:00

The Guns of Navarone! Now there is a great flick.

I'm curious, what would you recommend from the last year? We don't get out much but did see "Tell No One". A good plot and some deliciously gratuitous nudity, which is pretty much all I'm looking for

They were always commodities. Novels too. And Osca...

2009-02-23T11:00:00.000-06:00

They were always commodities. Novels too. And Oscars were bought and paid for in the old days. Now the purchasing is a bit less direct--a Weinsteinian process, you might say. But something can be a commodity and of cultural import as well. Just ask Dickens or Clemens.

The Oscars are a legacy of a time when people coul...

2009-02-23T10:03:00.000-06:00

The Oscars are a legacy of a time when people could honestly believe that movies actually had some cultural importance. Today, movies -- and books and TV shows and records, etc., etc. -- are nothing more than corporate, mass-produced commodities.

Of course, perhaps they always were.

But like that singer said, SM offers message of "h...

2009-02-23T08:13:00.000-06:00

But like that singer said, SM offers message of "hope and optimism." We just need to remind ourselves that in any culture with rampant poverty, it's important that we all have a game show to aspire to.