05.15.2003
+ Sorry for no real posts this week, been pretty busy with all this. In the meantime, to keep the movie angle going, here are the most amusing and intelligent reviews of THE MATRIX RELOADED I’ve read so far. J Hoberman of the Village Voice gets some good zingers in, if in a snarky New York kind of way, including a thought many of us have probably had that you can’t hear “The Keymaker” without thinking of GHOSTBUSTERS. Meanwhile, Adam Gopnik at The New Yorker wrote a surprisingly long and pretty convincing piece this week about the significance of the first movie, his opinions on the current one, and a survey of much of the philosophical hand-wringing that’s come before and after them. It’s what you call a good read, but that’s why we love the New Yorker.
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05.10.2003: speaking of captain britain…
It’s Nightcrawler up on the big screen, finally the household name he always deserved to be.
05.18.2003: stickin it to the man
(NY Times) Nisha Sharma, who rejected her fiance’s dowry demands and had him arrested under India’s anti-dowry laws, has become a national heroine.