Category Archives: cinema

In two or three evenings my rentmate, the snob, has sat through four episodes of Buffy with seeming pleasure. She says season four is more endurable than the foregoing because most of the teenage angst has been more or less … Continue reading →

I’ve now watched three whole seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I’ve also looked at various related websites. I usually don’t mind spoilers, but in retrospect the “panicking” scene would have been better somehow if I hadn’t known when to … Continue reading →

The episode “The Zeppo” can be seen as a lesson in the principle of comparative advantage. Or as a good laugh. When was Angel invited into Rupert’s apartment (before “Passion”)? When was he invited into Faith’s motel room (before “Consequences”)? … Continue reading →

Continuing to catch up on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I noticed in season 3 several morphing shots (transformation between vampire and human face) much smoother than I’ve seen before. Such changes, I think, never happened in close-up in previous seasons.

A curiosity in “Whatever Happened to George Foster?”, an episode of Danger Man: Drake fans a handful of US currency, showing several tens and twenties and one single. The single (alone) is obviously fake: the cartouche in the visible corner … Continue reading →

Funny blunder in Buffy, episode “What’s My Line” (2:9-10). Drusilla’s ritual needs to be at new moon; but as the sun is setting, she says, “The moon is rising.” (The new moon rises and sets with the sun.) [Later: In … Continue reading →