By Jiun Kwon
I wasn’t sure if I wanted to post another MJ blog, because 1) it’s still legit sad to me and 2) I’m like 14% embarrassed about it… maybe more like 12%. And, when the promotion started for this concert/rehearsal/musical feature, documenting his preparation for the concerts that would never actually be (see… sad), I… Read More
By Peter Brauer
I just had the pleasure of watching The Guild seasons 1 and 2 on a sweet two-disc set. I remember watching season 1 on the internet when it came out a couple of years ago. But I must say this show is definitely best when packaged together on one DVD. While each season is… Read More
By Jiun Kwon
The Informant!, if nothing else, epitomizes what can most aptly be termed The Soderbergh Dilemma. There are few directors as adept at aesthetic as Steven Soderbergh, for whom I have the utmost respect. I root for his career, for reasons I cannot always explain (though A.O. Scott does, far more eloquently than I can at this… Read More
By Jiun Kwon
Virtual gold? MMO-huh? World of WTF-craft? Who are these people?
Well… they’re everyone, actually. At least according to Second Skin, a fascinating documentary about the world of online gaming.
Computer games have come a very long way since the original days of Oregon Trail (isn’t there an online version of this game now?), in which the average… Read More
By Jiun Kwon
It’s somewhat fitting that Spike Lee decided to make this film on the heels of a public (and unfortunate) spat with Clint Eastwood over the lack of representation of African Americans in both of Eastwood’s World War II films, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima. Mr. Lee took issue with the omission, as he… Read More
By Hawkes Klein
Dear Jennifer Aniston,
Please. Stop. Stop it. Stop it now! I want to shake you! In a loving big-sisterly way (because I’m like twice your size). JEN FREAKING GET A HOLD OF YOURSELF! I’m looking at your imdb page right now, and I have to tell you babe, I’m concerned. It looks to me that you may… Read More
By Jiun Kwon
Before we made our way to the theatre, my sister asked me how I would explain Tarantino’s films to someone who knew nothing about him. I paused to think, and was momentarily halted by the overload in my brain. Because trying to simplify Tarantino is entirely counterintuitive… and reductive… and un-American. Okay… maybe not un-American.
But appreciating… Read More
By Jiun Kwon
Yeah… I know. Look, sometimes you just want to know what happens… and the idealist in you (the one who hearts Rachel McAdams and wants her to be in good movies) allows for that tiny, tiny possibility that maybe, just maybe, this movie won’t be total bulls***.
But then… you’re wrong, of course. And it makes me… Read More
By Hawkes Klein
I just wiki’ed Johnny Depp to make sure that he’s not actually British (he’s from Kentucky, which would make him more Gilbert Grape than Captain Jack Sparrow, which I can only assume means he sounds like Gwyneth Paltrow, but French, in real life.) Big picture – this movie is clearly about Heath Ledger… the handsome actor dying… Read More
By Hawkes Klein
**This is my favorite movie of all time!!**
Tomorrow marks 100 days since the BP oil spill in the gulf. I know they “successfully” capped it, but as long as that sucker is still leaking, I’m saying there is still an oil spill. But this disaster got me thinking a lot about the good old days of folk – when popular music regularly included anthems… Read More
Unless you have been living under a rock, you are quite familiar with the body (of work) of Isaiah Mustafa. Mustafa is a former wide-receiver in the NFL, and currently has a talent contract with NBC. He might be better known to you as The Old Spice Guy (heretofore known in this post as OSG). But just in… Read More