My Favorite Movies: Duck Soup
By now the analogy is irredeemably trite — the kind of comment that elucidates nothing yet sounds astute anyway. But here goes: Duck Soup is the Marx brothers’ Citizen Kane. I don’t […]
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Double Feature: Spice World and A Hard Day’s Night
This is musical blasphemy, of course, and cinematically dubious to boot. But this is probably the funnest double feature idea I’ve suggested in several months, and “fun” ought to be […]
How Facebook Missed the Stars, Landed On a Cloud
We lived on farms, then we lived in cities, and now we’re going to live on the internet! –Sean Parker (Justin Timberlake), The Social Network On Tuesday, Facebook turned ten years […]
Geppetto's Clocks 