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Saturday, October 03, 2015
Friday, October 02, 2015
Thursday, October 01, 2015
DVD Review: Automata—Clunker with a Heart of Gold
Okay, so 'Automata' might not be 'Birdman' or even 'Matrix', but it's not bad, not bad at all. It's not easy making a good sci-fi film. It has to be 'scientific' enough for that crowd, yet realistic enough to be believable, and still satisfy the human need for narrative and sympathy—not easy. Apparently the main beef seems to be that it doesn't live up to its promise. Geez! Give it credit for even having a promise! Most sci-fi flicks don't, and action films don't even pretend to..
'The Matrix' was great, but totally unbelievable. 'Star Wars' doesn't even count. That's just live-action animation based on the 'Hero with a 1000 Faces' mono-myth like 1000 other stories. And space-based tales like it and 'Star Trek' are largely a failed paradigm now—too bad—though '2001' will never be surpassed in that genre. Space is dead—for now. Wait for the Mars space program—if we're lucky. So we're left with robots for our science fix, still relevant if kept up-to-date.
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Antonio Banderas,
Automata,
films,
Melanie Griffith,
movies
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Monday, September 28, 2015
Beach Baby - Ladybird
Just one more day of summer, please? And a liter of eternal youth on the side...
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Friday, September 25, 2015
Shake It Off
Remember the old Taylor Swift classic from a few months ago? Brilliant exercise in musical relativity, what goes around, comes around...
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