Commentary Worth Having
Linda Holmes writes about commentary worth listening to in a sort of meta-review of This American Life‘s second season DVD set.
How do you feel about George?
The People vs. George Lucas
The Man’s Got His Tricks
“Since this isn’t the story of someone finding a hidden magical world that the squares don’t know about, it’s the one about people in a story sitting around telling stories.” Chris has some things to say about Neil Gaiman in, “This Week in Ink.”
“You Complete Me”
Five Un-Romances. Linda Holmes explains why.
Starting a Film Festival?
“We once programmed a retrospective of old kung fu films at a local theater and our prints looked like a collection of ex-convicts who had been trained to sneak into occupied Europe and assassinate Hitler: scarred, battered, and problematic.” Grady Hendrix’s advice isn’t past its expiry date.
The Last Thakur
It’s a good time to like Westerns, especially Asian Westerns, with good-looking movies like, The Last Thakur.
The Cultural Gutter 