Category Archives: cinema

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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de gustibus

Posted on Saturday, 2002 May 11 by Anton

Can anyone explain why Julia Roberts is called a beauty?

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nerds mourn

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 10 by Anton

The sequels to The Matrix are not The Transpose and The Eigenvector but Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions.

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another turn of the wheel

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 09 by Anton

The Lord of the Rings: The Novelization My readers may not know that I occasionally visit bookstores. At one such establishment this week, I heard a customer say, “I’ll wait a year and a half to read LotR if I … Continue reading →

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webs on the web

Posted on Tuesday, 2002 May 07 by Anton

It would be fair, I think, to say that James Lileks enjoyed Spider-Man, which apparently is a movie that opened this weekend. He also makes some interesting remarks about movies quâ cultural affirmation.

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