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was quite enjoying limitless right up until they ran out of ideas which is ironic since its about a drug which allows you limitless intelligence. but in the end the script wore off much like the drug.
you have to suffer through listening to adam carolla pontificate but heres an hour and a half conversation with albert brooks who is out promoting his new book.
always heartening to see a woody allen movie well reviewed. owen wilson seems like hed make a good allen protagonist/shlub.
Reality 86'd
"As if Netflix’s rapidly growing Watch Instantly catalog—which now boasts the recent addition of the Miramax library—and its ambitions to be considered in the same company of broadcast cable weren’t evidence enough that it has the whole media world stuffed inside a little red envelope, consider this: Nearly one-third of all bandwidth belongs to Netflix users during primetime hours, making it the largest single source of Internet traffic overall."
Super 8 movie projector made out of legos.
The Hit is a fun crime/road movie set in Spain with great performances by John Hurt, Tim Roth and Terence Stamp
more streamo-o-files.
im not going to suggest either of these are first rate comedies but wet hot american summer, a send up of movies like meatballs, has a minor cult following owing to its cast mostly members of the state comedy troupe among others while easy a, a contemporary take on john hughes type high school comedies has good performances by emma stone, patricia clarkson and stanley tucci.
the horse boy
heard an interview with the father of this boy on the radio yesterday. the boy has autism and the parents have brought their son to work with shamen in australian, africa and mongolia. the shamen say that the qualities this boy has, "autistic" qualities are the very same ones which in their societies would qualify them to be shamen's apprentices.