February 2012
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Feb 22nd
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Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV →
without cutting yourself off from your favorite shows and channels “a special in-depth report on who’s doing it, why and how” 2012 Edition - by Mark Glaser - MediaShift (via Mykl.biz)
Feb 22nd
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After watching the mini-series (1979), curious to see how the movie (2011) captured the complexity of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” (1974).
Feb 16th
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More than any apocalyptic action movie, stormy nightmares will make you want to “Take Shelter” (2011).
Feb 15th
Do you ever wish you could disable the dialog track on beautiful films with stupid stories, leaving just the music and foley tracks playing?
Feb 14th
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1. visually fluid. 2. audibly layered. 3. sparingly spoken. Three hearts, in equal measure. “3” Tom Tykwer has erected a remarkably counterbalanced love triangle.
Feb 12th
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Just take it as it comes, and  will take you for a pleasant ride.
Feb 12th
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Feb 11th
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Feb 10th
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After the first half dozen episodes, “Dead Like Me” meanders, sometimes stretching, never quite grasping. Wondering if there’s any point watching the second season.
Feb 4th
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January 2012
25 posts
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Jan 30th
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“The natural home for ideas and creations is in the commonwealth, the public...”
– Kevin Kelly
Jan 30th
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note to self:
Buy every DVD with “extras” of Patton Oswalt speaking extemporaneously. Watching the actual movie: optional.
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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“Under this new deal, pirated movies remain free of charge, free of non-skippable...”
– Matt Drance
Jan 28th
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Midnight excursions through a jazzy garden of caricatures, in Paris — with Owen Wilson almost a gentile caricature of Woody Allen. (2011)
Jan 28th
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“There has never been a time in entertainment history when TV has been this much...”
– Dave Pell
Jan 24th
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Jan 24th
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“Don’t yell and scream about how you’re losing business to piracy when your stuff...”
– Jonathan Coulton
Jan 21st
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Did you ever notice that most of the bad guys on “The Rockford Files” where a suit and tie?
Jan 20th
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“SOPA and PIPA will die but they’ll be replaced with something just as bad because lawmakers are stupid and producers are afraid of the future — a future that’s coming no matter what the entertainment industry does. For the money they are spending on lobbying, a design team could develop a new system that would make more money by exposing more content, not less, enabling new business...
Jan 20th
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“Time-Warner has called, and they want us all back on the couch.”
– Clay Shirky explains the history of media duplication, up to today.
Jan 18th
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“I have a subterranean charm. Most aren’t able to see it right away.”
– La Femme Nikita
Jan 18th
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A real time rumpus, with common heroes and uncommonly realistic heroics, in the “Nick of Time”.
Jan 16th
120 notes
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“House of Cards” mirrors its heartless protagonists too well: sorta interesting, but we just don’t give a shit.
Jan 15th
56 notes
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Jan 14th
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WatchWatch
The Intergalactic Nemesis appeals to our love of old time radio drama, and mixed media. Ready for a 15 minute coffee break? (excerpt from live at Dell Hall, Austin TX; via NPR.)
Jan 13th
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The Scale of the Universe →
Conveying the cosmic scale of Everything is a challenge, when limited to a screen that humans can see. Here’s one interactive attempt, inviting you to ”zoom from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of spacetime” on a single web page, by Cary & Michael Huang.
Jan 12th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
56 notes
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“TV is chewing gum for the eyes.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Jan 5th
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We’d be more interested to see “Stephen Fry in America” devote a full episode to every one of the 50 states, rather than breezing through each (huge) region in 59 minutes, devoting just a few minutes to one or two well worn stereotypes about each state. Alas, the breadth of geography and scarcity of running time guaranteed this travelogue’s shortcomings.
Jan 3rd
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Bob Mondello's Top 10 →
Making sure these are in our Netflix queue.
Jan 2nd
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Starting 2012 watching some documentaries we overlooked in recent years.
Jan 1st
December 2011
15 posts
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“Dead Like Me” (2003) reaps your attention with an exemplary pilot episode.
Dec 30th
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“Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows” is a middle school boy playing Texas Holdem with a Chess set.
Dec 30th
25 notes
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WatchWatch
Roman Coppola’s “CQ ” (2002) is a house of mirrors. (“Dragonfly” is one of the period films within the film.)
Dec 28th
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Spielberg’s “War Horse” is a child’s 19th century pastoral, a color postcard, muted by the 20th century.
Dec 27th
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 Watching this movie set in a Great Depression era circus  only leaves us wanting to re-watch Carnivale.
Dec 22nd
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“Make More Cartoons”
– Kim Jong Il
Dec 20th
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Who knew you could jam so many capable actors into a 135 minute Hallmark card? “Love Actually” (2003)
Dec 19th
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‎MythBusters may be our favorite edutainment series. Wishing more programs on the Discovery Channel included (at least) this much science.
Dec 18th
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In “The Constant Gardener” (2005), Fernando Meirelles remixes time, like chemicals under a microscope.
Dec 13th
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WatchWatch
“No DRM, no regional restrictions, no crap.” - Louis C.K. download Live at the Beacon Theater, for $5 bucks.
Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Godzilla Haiku →
“Loving Godzilla with seventeen syllables” a Tumblr weblog #haiku #humor
Dec 10th
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Stiff faces animated like mean androids, a plot like waiting in line: ”The Polar Express” (2004).
Dec 6th
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WatchWatch
The Bicycle Animation by Katy Beveridge
Dec 2nd
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Dec 1st
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