Harry Plinkett and the Star Wars Prequels

Have you seen Harry S. Plinkett reviewing the Star Wars prequels trilogy? All three movies are reviewed in excrutiating detail in three videos (70, 90 and 110 minutes long, respectively) and the reviews are devastating. Plinkett shows how Lucas himself destroyed the whole amazing mythology he gave birth to decades earlier, thus proving that he [...]

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“Pina”, or: How I Finally Saw a Good Movie in 3D

I saw “Avatar” and “Megamind” and the fourth “Pirates…” and each time I said: “OK, so this 3D thing is kinda neat and everything, now, can I please see a good movie using it?” Now I finally did. Aside from “Pina” being, well, perfect, it is the first picture I saw where the third dimension [...]

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“Black Swan”

So, “Black Swan”, right? I don’t know why I keep doing this to myself. I hate horror movies. I’m so easily scared by them (or any movie, actually), and yet time and time again I go and watch some scary flick. There was spanish “El Orfanado”, there was “The Happening” (to all who want to [...]

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New Year’s Resolutions

The year 2010 has great in many aspects – all the Toastmasters conferences in many interesting places, all the great people I met on those occasions, the Szlachetna Paczka charity action – a lot to do, and all very satisfying. Last year was also great culturally – I finally gave a proper listen to Mike [...]

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A-Dick-tations

I heard recently that Disney is working on a 3-D animated movie “King of the Elves”, based on a short story by Philip K. Dick. I loved that story – one of the very few Fantasy stories by this author – and always thought it would make a great movie, but not an animated one. [...]

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Up in the Air

Last Friday we went to see the new Jason Reitman (of “Juno” fame, son of Ivan of “Ghostbusters” fame) movie, “Up In The Air”, starring George Clooney as a renowned specialist in the area of firing people, who spends only about 40 days a year in his apartment – a blank space, lacking any indications [...]

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Mosaic of Love

A Mosaic Plot is a type of a multi-threaded plot with many separate stories, but where the stories are somehow intertwined – sometimes the characters from different threads know each other or are related to each other (“Playing By Heart”, “Magnolia”), sometimes not even that – they might just pass each other on the street [...]

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