Category Archives: cinema

My Man Godfrey

I watched the above-entitled movie last night, and am scratching my head as to what other film had contaminated my memory of it. The wacky rich family in the other film had a bookish son with a morbid imagination, and … Continue reading

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relativity in everyday life

Very interesting thoughts on the Matrix series: Steven Chapman 2004 Oct 25: Strange: that item is dated 6/28/2003, but the same blog’s current page is dated April 30, 2002. Blogspot acting up again?

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an outing in Area 650

At dinner last night, whom should I espy but loyal reader Mysterious Mike Linksvayer. (After that, it is fitting that Mike’s page leads me to a guide to spices.) Afterward my party went to a cinema for Lawrence of Arabia, … Continue reading

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eeuw!

Has it occurred to Christine Kochanski that she is Dave Lister’s mother?

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superhero rays

In the Spiderman movie that appeared a year ago, one striking departure from canon was to have a bio-engineered spider, rather than a radioactive one, bite Peter Parker. (Makes more sense anyway.) I wondered at the time, would Daredevil make … Continue reading

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demilitarize fictional space!

Don’t you wish that just once there could be a tv series where the chief executive of a space station is called Mayor or Abbess or even Baron rather than Commander?

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assuming, of course, that he really exists

A correspondent asks: Incidentally, why does Schwarzenegger do so many epist[e]mological films? We’ve got the 6th Day, Last Action Hero, Total Recall, The Running Man . . . (and one I haven’t seen) . . . . Kindergarten Cop.

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