I watched just over five dozen films this year; here are my favorites (among the movies I saw for the first time): Cinema Star Trek – I enjoyed this rollicking rethinking of the original space adventure. I loved the way Abrams kept the old continuity and erased it at the same time–it’s a cute plot [...]
Also tagged harry potter, it crowd, joss whedon, lost room, psych, ricky gervais, star trek, zombiesSo we Netflixed the bonus disc from Dollhouse season one in order to see “Epitaph One.” Boy does this kick ass. The episode takes place in the future, 2019, in which the mind-printing tech has gone rogue, and has started being used in the wild via telephones and other ways. People are “stealing bodies” and [...]
Also tagged joss whedonDollhouse I find Dollhouse fascinating for several reasons, the first of which is that by the nature of its storytelling, it puts us in the uncomfortable position of empathizing with high tech pimps. Because sure, the dolls help with hostage negotiation or break into vaults, but they also fulfill sexual fantasies (though nearly always off [...]
Also tagged bones, david boreanaz, Detectives, ew, fbi, mysteryDollhouse was interesting and entertaining. A good first episode that establishes a lot of the elements we’re supposed to get about the show. A few mysteries emerge, but generally solid. It didn’t have as much punch as most Whedon scripts — I didn’t see a lot of the sass we came to expect from our [...]
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