They’ll go well with all those children Bono’s been saving.
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The worldbuilding in this is way more elaborate than I imagined.
BabyCorp is a mousetrap company. And you cannot build a better mousetrap.
In the trailer for this he gave some courtier this very Leaudian side-eye that cracked me up, so I’d hoped his presence would make this film …umm…more conventionally watchable, I guess.
Yes, that’s it. I really enjoyed the scene where they were all commenting on the footage of the safe—no big single moment but a lot of little remarks adding up.
You’re right on that—it’s The Turning Point. It’s also odd to read an essay where Gould’s relatively more reductionist (or at least clearer-thinking), and a funny little moment.
Barely related, but I’m reading An Urchin in the Storm, a collection of Stephen Jay Gould’s articles for the New York Review of Books from the 1970s and 80s, and just finished his wonderful negative review of Fritjof Capra’s The Tao of Physics. One of his complaints was how Capra always uses “beautiful people sports”…
Big Deal on Madonna Street—a nice look at how much can go wrong in a theft. Interesting class dynamics, too—the thieves implicitly seeing themselves as a class above, with the constant references to peasants and maids and Peppe being condemned in the end to work—so much for the aristocracy of thieves. With all that…
I just got a library card for the first time in years yesterday—finally, I am freed from the relative restriction of what’s streaming or what I want to buy!
NO COMEDY PLEASE
My range of TV history is narrow, but at least I’m deep within it!
When DS9 was under development TNG basically owned drama/action syndication, so they thought there was ample room for another series, especially since TNG was going to be gone in a year or too. The producers and writers liked the relative creative freedom of not having a network, too—I think this might have been a…
I saw Tharlo, a gorgeous and sad film about life on the margins of the Tibetan Plateau by Pema Tseden. It’s kind of slow—two hours with only eighty-four shots—but intense in a movie-portrait sort of way. The story itself is pretty simple—herder goes to village, his life starts to unravel—but the advantage of the slow,…
I didn’t even realize she was the same actress as in Modern Romance due to the massive nineties hair.
It actually comes from the Dutch word for “little cake,” not from cooking.
In all honesty I mostly visit the site to read reviews of older stuff I’m just seeing now.
Same (having recently finished Twin Peaks and just watched Mulholland Drive last night)