Category Archives: cinema

the copyright wars

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

politechbot.com: Hollywood wants to plug “analog hole,” regulate A-D converters The people who tried to take away your VCR are at it again. Which raises the question: if “they” couldn’t do that, how did they since get powerful enough that … Continue reading →

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toon history

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

Am I the only one who remembers a cartoon carnivore saying “And then it’s lunchtime!” as he plotted to catch the innocent rodent or boid? Does anyone remember him less hazily than I do?

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does whatever a spider can

Posted on Saturday, 2002 June 01 by Anton

I haven’t read Spider-Man much in the last twenty years, so I forgive myself for needing to have it pointed out to me (in a review whose link I have lost) that the nonentity recently played by Ms Dunst is … Continue reading →

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zero tolerance

Posted on Monday, 2002 May 27 by Anton

Darth Vader’s War on Terror.

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we want our two hours back

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 16 by Anton

Accompanied my One True Ex today to see The Triumph of Love. Normally she loves pretty movies with no plot, e.g. Gosford Park, but Triumph has just enough plot to make the crap script stand out.

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