The Sonoma County Museum is featuring a new exhibit, “Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon,” on display until April 5, 2009. I got to check it out over the weekend. The museum is small but architecturally interesting, and the exhibit is an interesting slice of robot art from recent years. It was worth the trip [...]
I finally got around to seeing I’m Not There last night. Wow. Wow. It’s very stream of consciousness and very heavily steeped in Dylan mythos. Very artsy, hovers near but never goes over the edge of being impressed with itself, and unabashedly goofy. It’s the perfect way to tell Bob Dylan’s story . . . [...]
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood ISBN 0-7710-0813-9 Summary A dystopian tale describing the life of a woman living in the mid-1980′s in Gilead, a fundamentalist Christian society that rose from the destruction of the United States after a coup. The tale is told out of order with a present tense first narrative voice, and is [...]
I must confess to having some bias here. I had to leave a party where most of my friends were a bit early in order to make it to the theater on time. My parents had gotten an extra ticket so that I could go with them to see “Phantom” at the local community playhouse. [...]
Having sequestered myself in the rear of the mammalian’s primitive cinema-dome, I subjected myself to this travesty in the hopes the robots would win. Or at least make a good showing. Once again the mechanized nation was cast as being universally stupid, subservient, and generally useless. At least our animated representatives moved with more realism [...]
This is not a review. This is a non-view of Star Wars: The Clone Wars which is the latest full assault by George Lucas on the credibility of the Star Wars franchise. There are many reasons I won’t see this stinky cinematic suppository tonight, but here are some highlights: 1. Yoda is not voiced by [...]
Spoilers galore. Caveat Emptor This movie is everything the first one should have been. 2004′s Hellboy suffered from an unfocsed script, an overabundance of bad guys, and unimpressive fight scenes that relied too much on CG slime and not enough on good smackdowns. All of this has been fixed in Hellboy II: The Golden Army, [...]
