HBO’s Girls

Girls is the story of a bunch of 20 something lowlifes living in New York and fucking anything that moves.  Since the show is only thirty minutes long these isn’t a lot of room for silly things like character development or motivation.  Our mostly struggling lot met someone, have sex with them, and than wonder-hmm, who was that, anyway? when they wake up somewhere strange. These are all unlikeable people doing unlikable things-but that hasn’t stopped Two and Half Men from running for a zillion years.  The difference with Girls is that it wants to be the Art House stupid…

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Another Earth

Another low budget sort-of-science-fiction film with a lot of art house appeal.  Another Earth is about a woman who is in a car crash and crippled with guilt over her irresponsible actions. She spends years in jail and then stalkes the man she plowed into.  She spends a lot of time moping around and looking sad and remorseful. In the background of this sad sack story of a drunk driver is the secondary story of a second earth appearing in the sky one day.  The other earth is an exact duplicate of our own earth.  It keeps getting closer and…

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The Social Network

Before The Social Network movie came out, I had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg.  I certainly had never heard of the many other people who went to battle with him over the billion dollar empire that Facebook has become.  And even now, just a couple of hours after watching The Social Network, I couldn’t tell you who any of these other people are.  Other than the fact that two of them were twins with weird last names who rowed in the Olympics. But I did like the movie.  There is something just flat out amazing about the idea that some…

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