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Does The Rite Have the Right Stuff?
Posted by Greg Laden on January 29, 2011 As an ex-Catholic, I can appreciate a good movie involving Satin1 or his Minions. There are several reasons for this. For one thing, I get the jokes.2 Some of them are rather subtle and require an understanding of church dogma. Also, I can relate to the stranger side of the belief system from personal experience.…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I
Posted by Greg Laden on November 21, 2010 We braved ice and fog to go down to see Harry Potter this morning. And yes, it was indeed icy, which was a bit traumatic for me. Last time I was walking on glare ice, I fell and seriously injured my knee. That was last February and I’m still doing physical therapy and taking the…
Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia [citation needed]
Posted by Greg Laden on October 19, 2010 I like Wikipedia, I really do. But there are also some serious, very serious problems with it. I just read the entries on the Battle of Rorke’s Drift, a few related historical entries, and the entry on the movie Zulu, which is about the Battle of Rorke’s drift. My interest here is in looking at…
An organic workout, a strange encounter, and a movie
Posted by Greg Laden on September 19, 2010 Replacing floors is a total exercise routine. Moving furniture out of the way, ripping up whatever is there, measuring and cutting new sub flooring, carting around heavy sheets of plywood, tacking and nailing, and so on and so forth works every single muscle in one’s body. That’s what we did last weekend. Also, I was…
THEM!
Posted by Greg Laden on May 21, 2010 I recently watched this film for the first time since I was a little kid. The plot is much more nuanced than I had realized at the time. Interesting mixture of science and religion.
‘Ana’s Playground,’ filmed in Minneapolis, will screen Saturday
Posted by Greg Laden on March 3, 2010 Details on the film and the screening here. Hat tip: Ana.
Skeptics and Atheists Should be Relatively Happy about Twilight and New Moon
Posted by Greg Laden on December 5, 2009 My review.
Andy The Health Insurance Spokes Jerk
Posted by Greg Laden on November 25, 2009 Oh, this is good. Watch it and pass it on!!!!
Los Angeles Venue Cancels Intelligent Design Film
Posted by Greg Laden on October 9, 2009 You’ll recall that it was recently reported that the Californial Science Center, which is loosely affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution, had planned a screening of “Darwin’s Dilemma: The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record” which is apparently a creationist documentary. Well, now, the venue has cancelled the showing and the ID people are all lathered…
On the Seventh Day God Rocked: Do not miss this.
Posted by Greg Laden on May 4, 2009 I just watched a movie that made me ROFLMAOOL about fifty times. Maybe a hundred times. You’ll not want to miss this… ~-~-~-~-~-~
Commentary on OTT date rape scene….
Posted by Greg Laden on April 12, 2009 … in the movie Observe and Report. Go HERE to see the rest of the commentary as well as the R-rated trailer which shows part of the scene in question. I’ve got no opinion on this one scene because there is not enough context or detail (having not seen the movie) but the FFFU seems…
“W”
Posted by Greg Laden on October 19, 2008 Did you see Oliver Stone pop his head up in the audience on Saturday Night Live last nigh? I have not yet seen W but I plan to. I know a lot of you find Oliver Stone annoying, but I want to make an argument that he is less annoying than you think. Oliver Stone
Variety Reviews Olson’s Sizzle
Posted by Greg Laden on July 29, 2008 Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy was reviewed by Variety. This is not going to be pretty.
Sizzle on Here and Now
Posted by Greg Laden on July 28, 2008 Here and Now is a Boston-based (WBUR) public radio production. Randy Olson and his movie Sizzle were featured on the show recently. This link should get you there. (You can use the list on the right of the video plugin thingie to locate specific segments of the show.)
Sizzle Premier I
Posted by Greg Laden on July 22, 2008 This just in: After a ragingly great world premiere of “Sizzle: A global warming comedy,” at the Outfest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival last Saturday night, Randy Olson will appear on NPR for the second time in less than a week. This time on the Boston-based show, “Here and Now,” as he talks further about…
Sizzle: Racist, Sexist, Anti Gay….
Posted by Greg Laden on July 16, 2008 … Or is it? I just wrote an entire blog post about Sizzle, but accidentally posted it as a comment instead here. I’m actually pointing you to the comment before mine, which in turn inspired mine. Have a look.
Sizzle: An Inconvenient Truth meets Get Shorty?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 15, 2008 Sizzle A lot of people are going to not-like this film. Some are going to not-like it because it is a lousy documentary about global warming. The fact that this is NOT a documentary (about global warming or anything) will be lost on those individuals, so they will have wasted their time and their ticket…
Expelled! Private Screening for Politicians. How nice.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 11, 2008 This just in: Perhaps he was inspired by the turnout for Young People Fucking, or maybe he misses all that media attention he got after taking credit for getting C-10 through the House with nary a peep over the controversial changes to the film tax rebate. Whatever the reason, Reverend Charles McVety is headed back…
New Global Warming Film by Randy Olson
Posted by Greg Laden on June 10, 2008 The film we’ve all been waiting for … Randy Olson (of Flock of Dodos fame) has produced a new film called Sizzle. In the film Olson uses the approach he used in Dodos to address the global warming issue. I have not seen the film but hope to review it soon. Mean time, here’s the…
Ono: I Want To Just Say No
Posted by Greg Laden on May 22, 2008 Update on the Ono Law Suit … As you most certainly know, Yoko Ono and her two sons have sued the producers of Expelled! for their use without permission of the song Imagine by John Lennon. Well, it appears as though a ruling from the court is imminent. AP is lubing the shoots with a…
Finally. A remake worth re making
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2008 The First Commandment of Scientific Investigation: Being Honest Matters
Posted by Greg Laden on April 29, 2008 Second commandment: Try not to be a moron. (FYI: observed instances of speciation) Hat Tip: TUIBG and Julia
What is the most compelling science movie?
Posted by Greg Laden on April 28, 2008 … and why. The Page 3.14 readers poll asks this question, with a selected number of choices. The choices given in the poll are interesting, but I think one could add quite a few more. In part, this would depend on why one thinks a certain film is compelling. Is a film compelling because it…
Flock of Dodos
Posted by Greg Laden on April 27, 2008 With all this talk about Expelled!, the creationist movie, I thought it was about time to resurrect the review I wrote many moons ago of Flock of Dodos by Randy Olson, along with some updated information. Flock of Dodos is a much better film than Expelled!, and explores the same issue, with somewhat different conclusions.…
Expelled! Induced Conversations and the Future of Science, Medicine and Hollywood
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2008 Despite the fact that the producers of Expelled! have the most nefarious of motives in mind, and that we can expect more from them (we are waiting for the other shoe to drop), it is interesting to note how many conversations this documentary about Intelligent Design Creationism has sparked. Ultimately, the intended purpose of Expelled!…
Expelled! in Iowa
Posted by Greg Laden on April 23, 2008 Evolving in Kansas provides a lie-fighting fact revealing review of Expelled!’s showing in Iowa.
Expelled! The Obvious Next Step
Posted by Greg Laden on April 22, 2008 Now that Expelled! No Intelligence Allowed, the movie, exists, we wait not so quietly for the other shoe to drop. I’ll tell you in a moment what that other shoe is going to look like and where it is going to drop. First I want to make a couple of topically linked but otherwise discombobulated…
Expelled Googled
Posted by Greg Laden on April 16, 2008 At this moment (noonish central time, April 16th) if you type “Expelled” into a google search, the results in order are: 1: The expelled movie site. 2: Another page on the expelled movie dite 3: The wikipedia entry for Expelled 4: A blog by PZ Myers at Pharyngula for when he got expelled from Expelled…
Minneapolis 24 hour film race
Posted by Greg Laden on April 14, 2008 Check out this film. My friend Marta plays “Holy Mary, Mother of God” a part especially well suited for her. Details:
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