Russian Communist Party member’s attack James Bond for political points.  My favorite claim:
The party’s leader, Sergei Malinkovich, said: “Everyone knows that the CIA and MI6 finance James Bond films as a special operation of psychological warfare against us. This Ukranian girl sleeps with Bond and that means that Ukraine is sleeping with the West.”
I guess [...]

I would say that one of the reasons that the entertainment industry tends to be left-leaning has nothing to do with hideous motives, but from the fact that the left tends to have stories about human life that have a compelling, sweeping dramatic arc that a radical free market capitalist just can’t tell because he [...]

After talking about “There Will Be Blood,” I thought I’d post a revisionist history of what the “Best Picture” awards would look like if I could deterine the winner.  I have obviously not seen every movie, and there’s obviously many reasons why they don’t just ask me to pick the winner that are all correct [...]

In my continuing attempts to learn about things I missed while finishing my dissertation, I saw Paul Thomas Anderson’s film There Will Be Blood yesterday.  I don’t want to write a movie review of the thing, there’s plenty of those lying around. Instead I’ll cut straight to the provocative comments. First, I think that this [...]

Following the death of Arthur C. Clarke, I decided to go back and watch 2001: A Space Odyssey, which was an easy sell, since it allowed me to use an HDDVD, helping me to justify owning them. Last night I watched 2010: The Year We Made Contact for the first time in a very long [...]

I promised that I would see it with others, but I got greedy over the last two nights and finally saw The Ister. I found it to be a very fine film, and felt like the commentary from the various “guides” on our way up the Danube River to be quite educational, and, indeed, [...]

   
Nothing is funny about movie piracy…. except for this.  This is very funny to me.    I want it… I mean, it’s called Star War The Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West. 
You might ask, "Isn’t mistranslated popular culture pretty much a tired gag?"  The Jedi Council is subtitled as "The Presbyterian Church"!  how [...]

What Happened in 2006?  Casino Royale happened.  For the James Bond enthusiast, nothing else really happened of any import whatsoever.  In fact, to the Bond fan, last year isn’t even known as 2006 anymore.  It is year 0 of the new calendar.  All that happened before is BCR (Before Casino Royale) and all that comes [...]

I have loved going to the movies my whole life.  I cannot even remotely rationalize the sheer joy attached to the experience of watching movies that I feel, but I have almost come to terms with the fact that it will never be a sensible part of my character.  My love of movies definitely spills [...]