Archive for January 20th, 2008

  • So bad it’s gonna make M. Night Horsehockey jealous.

    From a review in the Times of the Blair-Witch-inspired howling crapfest known as Cloverfield:
    Cloverfield - Movie - Review - New York Times
    For a brief, hopeful moment, I thought the filmmakers might be making a point about how the contemporary compulsion to record the world has dulled us to actual lived experience, including the suffering of [...]

  • book ‘em

    Their House to Yours, via the Trash - New York Times

    Is there any other industry in which such high-quality goods regularly make their way to consumers via a trash bin? Stand in the bookselling line at the Strand and the store starts to feel less like a dusty bastion of erudition and more like a [...]