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04.06.05 by Widge @ 9:01 pm Jeff Jarvis over at Buzz Machine is talking about the general lack of testicular fortitude among cable providers that could cost you the edgier shows you like on cable...and exactly why these folks are willing to cave. If you think this anti-"indecency" push is as ridiculous as we do, then you'd best start speaking up now. Categorized as: Stimuli and TV
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04.04.05 by Doc @ 3:57 pm National Poetry Month is upon us, and the 10th Anniversary to boot. The Academy of American Poets is going all-out this year, with a reading tour of ten cities, lots of outreach plans, and an activity calendar for every day of the month. The Academy's site is packed with enough poetic goodness to keep an interested dataminer working for weeks. If you're feeling a little more active, pick a form and try your hand. Dust off your favorite, corner a hapless bystander, and read aloud. Or post your favorite verse in the Gabfest. Categorized as: Stimuli
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12.07.03 by Agent Vitriol @ 10:52 am   Film: Written & Directed by: Richard Kelly Features:
Released by: Fox My Advice: Own it. Categorized as: Stimuli
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07.27.03 by Widge @ 1:35 am 
Written & Directed by: Robert Rodriguez My Advice: Matinee Juni Cortez (Sabara) is no longer an OSS operative. He's a bitter ex-agent gumshoe, though, doing freelance investigation work and dodging calls from the OSS to come back. However, they can be very persuasive, especially when they call in the President (George Clooney) to get Juni back on the case--and especially when said case involves his sister (Vega) being in trouble. She's gone into a virtual reality world to shut down the evil plans of the diabolical Toymaker (Stallone)...and been trapped there. Juni has to go in, shut down the VR world, save his sister and derail the Toymaker...all within twelve hours. Let me tell you straight up with this flick isn't. It's not your typical spy flick, and it's an entirely different animal from the rest of the series. First of all, the focus is on Sabara's character, with cameos from pretty much everybody and his brother Bob. You get him, Vega, the kids in the VR world, and Montalban and Stallone--which by itself is such a strange concoction, it demands to be seen. Even their parents (Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino) are reduced to cameos. Categorized as: Stimuli
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02.09.03 by Widge @ 11:59 pm 
Written by: David Self, based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins & Richard Piers Rayner My Advice: Don't miss it. Michael Jr. (Hoechlin) doesn't know much about what his father (Hanks) does. All he does know is that their family owes a great deal to an older gentlemen named John Rooney (Newman), who's his dad's boss. Sometimes dad goes out to take care of business for Mr. Rooney, and mom (Leigh) isn't going to talk either. Finally, curiosity (you know what that leads to) gets the better of him and he learns more about his father's occupation than he could ever possible want to...and puts his entire family in harm's way in the process. Welcome to Sam Mendes' sophomore helming effort, the first being American Beauty, the best film of 1999. I approached this film with some trepidation, as other sophomore outings of recent star directors have not exactly been up to snuff (Nolan, anyone?). I shouldn't have worried. Hanks, wanting to play something a little darker (and having stated in an interview he would have loved the Spacey role in Beauty), is a master of underplaying his hand as a professional killer. Watch him in scenes where he's not, on the surface, doing anything. He has the part nailed--and, as always with Hanks, it's easy to think that he's not working at all. It just looks so effortless. Categorized as: Stimuli
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