Author: tederick
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Review: The ROCKY Movies
Yo! I am now a leading authority on the Rocky movies. Five days ago, I hadn’t seen any of them. Now I’ve seen ’em all. You know that theme? I’ve heard it a lot lately. I won the “Undisputed Collection” Blu-ray set about a year ago, collecting the entire series. It has sat on the shelf. I had been…
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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART ONE
The long, sad end of the road Look, at this point you’re either on board with Harry Potter or you’re not. Those who disdain the films (or the books) will find nothing in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part One, to redirect them. Those who care about what’s going on here – and there are a lot…
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Pure Cinema and the Serendipity of Visual Storytelling: Firework Nutshot Fail
I have never been much predisposed to believe in karma, but my newfound fondness for / obsession with “fail” videos has me looking over my shoulder and considering the Greater Forces. I predict that if there are truly any laws of karmic balance governing our universe, I will shortly fall victim to some sort of…
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Review: SPIDER-MAN 3
The Best Bad Movie Ever Made Lookit: making movies is hard, man. You have to be on top of so many things. You have to have a clear vision, and you need to carry it out. You need to construct something that has unity, clarity, and coherence. It can’t just go along in a straight…
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Review: AVATAR
The dreams of Iron Jim There’s a man who can’t walk, but in his dreams he can stride out into an alien wilderness and run. The man is Jim Cameron, and if he is known to be a tyrant, perhaps it’s only because he’s spent so much of his life stuck in that damn wheelchair.…
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Review: HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE
The Ghost Story I’ve given the Harry Potter films an easy ride over the years. Flat raves for the Columbus films (stylistically, they hew closest to the spirit of their respective novels). Warm enthusiasm for films 3 and 5, each sharply told by talented directors. This leaves the mishmash Goblet of Fire as the only outright rejection, but coming…
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Review: STAR TREK
And on we go. So here we are, at last. Honestly, the (latent? dormant? something) Trekkie in me – the one who, like umpteen million others, found Trek when he was a disenfranchised, too-cerebral adolescent – never thought the Powers That Be would have the balls, or the foolishness, to reboot the franchise as they…
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The Vivarium of Dr. Tesseract
Dr. Tesseract enters the vivarium. We could imagine that he is Daniel Cockburn, had Daniel never given up cocaine (nor never not started it in the first place), and after 15 further years of apathetic days and earthshaking night terrors. The glass walls are alive with fish. Tangerine on steel on neon blue. Above, birds…
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Review: THE DARK KNIGHT
You wanna play a game? Let’s say you had an idea. A kind of “intellectual project,” if you will: you saw a problem, and thought you could design a solution. The problem was a city run rampant with organized crime, and the solution was very much a design — a visual/emotional icon, more myth than…
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