This is a hilarious Sesame Street spoof of the “V for Vendetta” trailer called “C is for Cookie“.

Wow. It’s hard to know where to begin. First off, this is a Korean movie, so if you are a prejudiced bigot about foreign films, stop reading. However, if you want to see a really really cool movie… rent OldBoy. It’s pretty difficult to describe this movie. I’ll give you the best premise I can: …

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xcnl > en I really liked this film. All I knew about it was that Sam Mendes (director of one of my favorite movies – American Beauty) directed it, and it was about Marines in the first Gulf War. I was thinking, “Hmm, I bet Sam Mendes will make a good drama out of what …

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I will take this article from the Guardian as proof that I am a predictive genius when it comes to media and consumer behavior. I told everyone that the difference in the level of involvement on the part of users meant that portable video is nowhere near as universal as demand for portable audio. Not …

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Hmm. Cheap network terminals that run a Google operating system. Now that WOULD be interesting. Let’s see if it’s true.

Wow. What a great movie. I think this is the first film I’ve reviewed for 5 stars on the blog in the year and a half that I’ve been writing on it. The Constant Gardener is a powerful drama that blends character-driven story and political thriller in equal parts while using a bit of non-traditional …

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It was a choice between Munich and the Geisha movie, and I have really wanted to see Munich since I heard that Steven Spielberg was tackling a movie about terrorism. True to what you would expect, Munich is a well-written revenge thriller which puts Steven Spielberg back into the “Great Director” category (see previous post). …

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Ann and I went to see this on the day after Christmas. I had read the book a long time ago, like when I was thirteen, so I had a vague recollection of what the story was about. The reason I was most excited was because the director of Shrek had teamed up with the …

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I recently finished a great history of the Roman republic by Tom Holland called Rubicon. My friend Ian was telling me about it and got me interested in it, so I owe him credit for changing my opinions on the ancient Romans. I always liked the ancient Greeks more than the Romans. The Greeks invented …

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Ann and I went to see the fourth Harry Potter movie last night. We are both avid fans of the books, but I have to say we were a bit rusty on all the plot details of the fourth book, not having read it in four years or so. All in all, it was a …

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