From Jim Emerson's blog"As if to reinforce my feeling that ABC's Emmy-winning "Lost" has the potential to become the "Twin Peaks" of its time, introducing a note of truly mysterious surrealism to the world of prime-time television, along comes a eerie, dreamlike promo spot by director David LaChappelle, maker of the recent feature film "Rize." If ( Read more... )

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Giant Squid! Let the Cthulhu/tentacle jokes commence.

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Simon Wiesenthal, one of the truly great men of the 20th Century, has died at the age of 96; sadder still is how few people actually know who he was. Read more about this extraordinary man here.

I went to a drive-in movie for the first time this weekend. It was a lot of fun. We saw March of the Penguins, which was thoroughly unimpressive. (Want to see a really fascinating, exhilarating bird documentary? Rent Winged Migration instead. Or, better yet, come over and watch it with me, because I own it!) It was fun to laugh at the stupid ( Read more... )

Take a look at the new Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire trailer . Looks great and has lots of new stuff! Although, if you're heading out to see a new release movie this weekend, it might be worth waiting to see it on the big screen because it's pretty amazing. (I would grab the file and host it myself to make things easier for everyone who ( Read more... )

Well, I did it. I watched the entire first season of Lost in less than a week. All 24 episodes. I enjoyed it quite a bit, obviously. I managed to stay pretty much spoiler-free beforehand, which is good because there were a lot of surprises. The only thing I knew going in was which character died - hard not to know this, since it was splashed ( Read more... )

If you haven't yet experienced the brilliant weekly satire offered up by The Onion, now is the time to remedy that regrettable situation. A couple examples of the perfectly barbed post-Katrina headlines: "Louisiana National Guard Offers Help By Phone From Iraq" and "Bush: 'It Has Been Brought To My Attention That There Was Recently A Bad Storm.'"

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