Mummified

Sat 5 May 200101:26 AM

“The Mummy Returns” is two hours of cornball idiocy designed to fill theater seats, but it’s still a fun flick, I have to admit.

Oscar Fever!

Mon 26 Mar 200112:06 PM

Everybody asked me over the weekend if I intended to watch the Oscars on Sunday night. With “Gladiator” walking away with the big prizes, isn’t it pretty apparent why I stay away from this ostentatious celebration of mediocrity?

A List of Things I Consumed

Mon 8 Jan 200101:00 PM

This is a little late, but in December, the lists came out—‘best of’ lists, what’s in and what’s out lists, lists of New Year’s resolutions etc. So I figured, what the heck, I may as well make a list. I mean, that’s kind of what Internet content is all about— realizing the compulsion to express an opinion, regardless of intrinsic value — right?

What Do Directors Know?

Sat 16 Dec 200012:46 PM

“My belief is that the period between when you know you’re going to get together with somebody and when you actually get together with them is the most electric — we know it’s going to happen, and then we have to wait for it to actually happen.”
– Steven Soderbergh

Tigers and Dragons

Tue 12 Dec 200006:19 PM

Last Friday, Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” finally premiered Stateside, after much hand-wringing and excitability among most everyone I know. Though I saw it in Singapore back in August, seeing it a second time on Friday reaffirmed to me that it’s the best film anyone is likely to see all year. Here’s hoping that the American moviegoing public will give their stamp of approval the way Americans best know how.

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