BIFF Review: Encounters at the End of the World

Last night the Boston Independent Film Festival closed with a screening of Werner Herzog’s first documentary since 2005’s 2005 point Grizzly Man, which you seriously owe it to yourself to see.
His latest is Encounters at the End of the World, in which the off-kilter German visits the research station at the South Pole and [...]

BIFF Review: Vexille

Vexille tries to make me care about its characters, but they only have three facial expressions and look like rotoscoped versions of Grand Theft Auto avatars.  They’re drawn real pretty, and the action sequences are fun (I counted two Death Star trench run ripoffs and one invasion of Xavier’s mansion ripoff, and the entire [...]

BIFF Review: Crawford

Crawford was the headlining premiere at SXSW this year, and I had a chance to see it at BIFF last night. Here’s the trailer:

In my last semester at NYU I took a history course on the American Revolution, and one of the books we read was The Minutemen and Their World, [...]

Oh, THAT Tibet?

Oops. Chinese factory accidentally makes thousands of ‘Free Tibet’ flags. Confucius says, “Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”  Oops again.

BIFF Review: Frownland

FROWNLAND: I wanted to go see a second doc, American Teen, about which I’d heard good word-of-mouth,
but ended up getting another round at the Burren and missed the start, so we caught the narrative Frownland instead. This flick is about an anxious, stuttering, disaffected loner in New York who works as a door-to-door coupon [...]

BIFF Review: We Are Wizards

Over the weekend I attended a couple screenings of the Boston Independent Film Festival, and am probably gonna check out a couple more tonight before the fest closes tomorrow. Reviews of what I saw:

We Are Wizards: On the assumption that it wouldn’t amount to much more than confectionary fluff, I was pretty unenthusiastic about [...]

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No Room for Shrooms

The government of Holland is currently considering legislation that would ban the sale of psilocybin mushrooms in Amsterdam, to which I have to give a huge thumbs down. -2012 points.
Andrew Sullivan gives good post on the reasons this sucks, and here’s an older post of his in which he explains why shrooms should be legalized [...]

The Big Think

Welcome to the new layout. A day earlier than projected, but I do what I want.  For example, I added ‘philosophy’ as a category a few weeks ago and haven’t written a single post under that heading. No longer:
In my facebook profile under religion it says “We are a dream the universe is having,” which [...]

Three Blind Mice

So Josh Marshall over at TPM (if you like your news to be informative and not stupid, you should probably click that link) provides a breakdown of all the things the Clintons need to make happen to win the nomination, which further tracks the subject of my previous post here. As an Obamaphile I [...]