My Favorite Movies: The Social Network
Five years ago, the consensus on The Social Network was that it wasn’t so much about Facebook specifically as it was an update on the age-old concepts of genius, entrepreneurship, and […]
Tag Archives: Internet
Double Feature: Shops Around the Corner
The romantic comedy, when done well, is the kind of effortless entertainment that feeds Hollywood’s reputation as a place where dreams come true. The genre first came into its own […]
Uh … 3 ½? — Napoleon Dynamite
The Introduction I didn’t see this movie from start to finish until March 2008, on a Netflix DVD. At the time, that felt like a major oversight. Jon Heder’s Napoleon […]
Some Links, Some Thoughts — and a Correction
No proper blog post this week, but I’ve written in a couple other places and felt like sharing the links. There’s a short review of Spike Jonze’s movie Her on my […]
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 […]
Like Literally
First things first: to anyone who thinks the wrong definition of the word literally was added to the dictionary last week, all I can say is that it’s a little hypocritical […]
Letterboxd
Letterboxd has now virtually replaced Flixster as the website I use to share movie ratings, reviews, and lists. It’s a social network that allows you to keep a diary of […]
How Wikipedia Introduced Me to the Internet
Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday… The special anniversary tribute refutes […]
Facebook Links #1
You know, there’s just always interesting stuff to read on the Internet, and I still can’t stop reading and sharing it. So I’ve decided to relaunch my “What I Read […]
“A Leave of Presence” – How We Deal With Death
Roger Ebert passed away yesterday at the age of 70. In the film community, the loss is immense. Ebert was the first film critic ever to win a Pulitzer Prize […]
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