Some Critics Just Don’t Get ‘Cloverfield’

23 January 2008

Cloverfield is not a movie made in that traditional vein. It’s concept movie-making. The idea is that a home video is retrieved by the government from the site of a horrific incident and we are in on the screening as voyeurs of that video as though holding the camcorder in our hands.

Marking Time By Decades Died in 2000

21 December 2007

Love eighties music? Do you reflect on the laissez-faire attitude of the swinging seventies or pine for the golden era of Hollywood movies back in the forties? Seems that marking social and cultural change by referring to a particular decade has come to an end.

Dasani Bottled Water a Bad Product?

30 October 2007

A global federation of consumer advocate organizations called Consumers International recently gave out awards for what it deems are the worst consumer products advertised to the public, including … Dasani.

Larry Craig Should Resign

5 September 2007

He’s guilty. Wait. No, he shouldn’t have said he was guilty. But he won’t resign. Oh, hold on. Okay, he will resign. Nope. Maybe he won’t resign after all.

The Lowest Form of Humor

31 August 2007

Humor is cast aside as a light subject and isn’t very closely examined by most people. That’s probably because we all believe that we have a pretty good understanding of what humor is.