Monthly Archives: September 2007
Tones VS Songs
When Apple announced the iPhone a tiny question popped up in the back of my equally tiny mind: how long would it take before Apple started screwing its customers like all the other companies in the cell phone racket? Answer: … Continue reading
Jane Espenson on Britney Spears and the Importance of Properly Punctuating Jokes
Jane Espenson, former staff writer for the spectacular Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has been forced to comment on the media coverage of the MTV Video Music Awards. All right. I wasn’t going to do this, but I have to weigh … Continue reading
‘The Lookout’ Review
It’s pretty amazing that movies like War get huge marketing blitzes behind them while a film like Scott Frank’s The Lookout comes and goes with little fanfare. I noticed a small bit of online advertising for the movie before it … Continue reading
‘When the Nines Roll Over’
Before David Benioff become a successful screenwriter he was a novelist. 25th Hour, the Spike Lee film staring Ed Norton, was first a book written by Benioff, for which he did the adaptation himself, and it’s an excellent book at … Continue reading
Unfortunately, Silverchair Is Unkillable
Do you remember the band Silverchair? They made a slash here in the States in 1997 with some crap titled “Abuse Me” (with the lyrics, “Come on abuse me more I like it.”). Now, I was never a fan, because … Continue reading