Comparative Reality

Nat Johnson and the Figureheads Some of her songs (see the two demos) sound like a more upbeat, folksier Cat Power. But don't writer her off as yet another folksy singer-songwriter until you listen to "Dirty Rotten Soul". It's a brilliant, two-and-a-… more »

I think that most sane people can agree that this... Robert Zemeckis just can't get enough of his 3D motion capture, and clearly no film or concept will elude his grasp. According to Variety, Zemeckis and Disney are in the middle of a complicated d… more »

Sometimes, you see something and you just cannot believe that it's not a joke. You keep watching, because you're certain that there's a punchline coming. For example, this commercial, for a "limited edition Michael Jackson lithograph." It starts off… more »

Universal has won a four-studio bidding war to pick up the film rights to the classic Atari video game "Asteroids." There are so many things wrong with that sentence. Four studios, in a bidding war, for Asteroids? The game where you spin, shoot,… more »

In what must be a record for me, I saw three movies in a single week. In the theater, even! (That last bit is what disqualifies the all-night Star Wars showing I went to back in college; it was in a lecture hall, so not really a theater, so it doesn't c… more »