Good Is The New Bad – Film Reviews And More

Dedicated readers will recall my displeasure with the overly-cute “Be Kind, Rewind“. The central gimmick of that film was low-budget re-creations of big-budget Hollywood spectacle, which falls flat because using a big budget to simulate a small budget recreation of a blockbuster is dishonest – the cinematic equivalent of trust-fund hipsters slumming it in deliberately [...]

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Wonder what your neighbors are watching? Wonder about all the various ways your viewing habits are being monitored and tabulated? Or how about if audience stereotypes are true? Thanks to Netflix and the New York Times, now you know some of the answers. Behold a breakdown of 2009 rentals by zip code: A Peek Into [...]

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The 3D television phenomenon is complete bullshit, despite what the New York Times would have you believe.

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One of the few movies of 2009 to deserve every ounce of the praise that’s piled on it, Kathyn Bigelow’s story of a EOD (explosive ordinance disposal) unit in Baghdad is relentless from the very first frames and barely rests until the final fade out

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Surowiecki’s single-page essays are almost always an inspired read. After some trenchant analysis, he points out perhaps the biggest contradiction in the current health-care reform package:

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By Aaron J. Shay            There are a number of things that are boons to creativity, and depending on which creator you speak to, you’ll get a different answer as to what provokes the proverbial spark.  But historically, what one finds is that there are three abstracts that have always stimulated the brain of the creator: [...]

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