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Nailed it. I love Alien and I'm generally a fan of Ridley Scott's work, but Prometheus seemed terribly derivative. Almost everything in it felt like I'd seen it elsewhere before to the point where the whole thing played out like a cliche. In fact, several times through the movie I caught myself...

Yes, she's a fan. Everything was borrowed for us by our hosts, right down to our shoes and booties. Amazingly, everything fit pretty good, including the bikes. The cycling culture in Flanders is amazing, probably second to only the Netherlands; everyone rides everywhere all the time in...

I think I now know what it means to be a "hard man of Flanders." My wife and I are just back from a European holiday that included stays in Paris, Ghent and Berlin. We have family in Belgium, and when I suggested a visit to some of the famed cobbled climbs in Flanders might be a...

I really wanted to like Parnassus, as I'm a huge Gilliam fan, but I thought this was a mess. Understandable, given the exceptional challenge he had to overcome to finish the film, but worst of all, it was a dull mess. For me, the story just never had any spark, the performances were uninspiring...

Here is my list: Movies seen in the last decade: 1,071 (give or take a few) 1. City of God 2. The Edge of Heaven 3. The Lives of Others 4. All the Real Girls 5. Downfall 6. Amelie 7. Gladiator 8. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 9. The 25th Hour 10. Boy A 11. United 93 12. The Hurt Locker 13...

Top 13 of approximately 65 movies viewed this year: • An Education• In the Loop• Sugar• It Might Get Loud• The Damned United• 500 Days of Summer• The Hurt Locker• Up In The Air• Julie and Julia• Inglorious Basterds• Moon• Adventureland• Brothers Worst: • Whatever Works

I just finished watching it; rented it from Blockbuster this afternoon. Excellent film. The archival NASA footage is fabulous and the astronauts are all lively, engaging interviews; loved Buzz Aldrin's story about his lunar "first!"

I saw it on Saturday. The 3D effect is nicely rendered, although I thought the PQ was a little soft. It would be nice if they could perfect the 3D technology so we could retain the usual vibrancy and sharpness of old-fashioned 2D IMAX. Funny thing is, the dude next to me in the theater seemed...

Same here. Some people were outright hostile and derogatory when the credits started to roll.

Cate Blanchett's "hurricane" tirade in Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Even though I'd seen it a number of times already in the trailers, it still made my neck hair stand up when I saw the film in its entirety. The duet scene in the music store in Once. The bowling alley scene in Across the...

Movies seen: 72 Top Ten 1. Atonement 2. Gone Baby Gone 3. The Bourne Ultimatum 4. Paris, Je t'aime 5. Angel-A 6. The Kingdom 7. Juno 8. Across the Universe 9. Avenue Montaigne 10. Michael Clayton Worthy Contenders God Grew Tired of Us The Wind That Shakes The Barley Once...

I'm just back from a week in Paris. Here's a couple of multimedia slideshows I've put together, one on the street where we rented an apartment for our stay, the other on Versailles: Rue Mouffetard Versailles

1. Babel 2. Blood Diamond 3. United 93 4. The Queen 5. Miami Vice 6. Tsotsi 7. Brothers of the Head 8. Devil Wears Prada 9. Road to Guantanamo 10. Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos

Woh! So much for the Disco doubters! Classic Disco/Postal ride, Lance being paced by three of his lieutenants, then peeling them off one-by-one as the pace escalates up the final climb, shredding contenders along the way! Rasmussen is looking tenacious. Valverde is tough. Does Lance hang onto...

Excellent find Michael! Thanks for the link!

Generally, Lance is well-regarded in France. Sure, there's the odd yahoo along the road who will yell "Dopé" as he rides by, and some of the French cycling media seem intent on proving his success hasn't been entirely on the level but the fans cheer him loudly and respect his achievements. Lance...

Let the REAL racing begin! CSC and T-Mobile looked mighty powerful today, while Disco was almost invisible; Lance had to respond to all of Vinokorov's attacks all by himself. Was Disco rope-a-doping, or has the mighty team cracked????

That's what sets Lance apart from the mere mortals, his courage and determination to smack down every challenge that's thrown his way. It's how he beat cancer, it's how he won the '03 Tour after crashing on Luz Ardiden, it's how he dominated last year's Tour when many doubted anyone could ever...

WOW!!!!! So much for the questions about Lance's form. Ullrich's "glance over" will surely rank up there with Lance's "look back" as a great Tour moment, and another knife through Jan's aspirations! What a thrilling start to this year's Tour!

Two more sleeps! And don't forget, this year's first stage is an actual stage, a 19 km ITT instead of the usual super-short prologue. Here is what Lance had to say about that at today's press conference:

That's a beautiful trophy. And how cool is it to see that layer of dust and grit on the tires of those sleek racing bikes?! Amazing that none of the contenders had a blowout. Did you end up catching the live feed on gazzetta.it, Nils? Every once in a while the director decided to have some...

Wow! Today's Stage 19 of the Giro, up the Finestre and then on to Sestriere, may go down as one of the most epic of modern cycling; eight kms of GRAVEL, a heroic ride onto the podium by Rujano, a relentless attack by Simoni, a brave effort by DiLuca, and an absolutely gutsy, determined defense...

I've been watching the Giro live every morning here, and I have to say, this year's race has been every bit as exciting as any TdF. Heck, on Monday there was even a fight between two riders at the finish line, and then a couple of photographers exchanged shoves! Basso's self-destruction was a...

There were sections of the track with two sets of double solid lines that had been painted over, so on tv it looked kinda like a life-size slot car racing circuit! :D

Is this thing still out there?! I don't know if I should be embarrassed about this, but I got so caught up in the whole Riverdance/Celtic music & dancing thing back in '97 that I travelled to NYC to see the sixth-ever North American performance of Lord of the Dance, the show developed by...

Oh yeah! I saw Edwin's post about that the other day and was immediately anticipating my trip to the opening day matinee for that film! The way Mann made 1960s Chicago and Las Vegas sizzle with noir coolness on a tv budget in Crime Story, I can only imagine the magic he'll be able to weave...

I didn't catch that, but I thought the whole opening scene with Tom Cruise's arrival at the airport was very much an echo of Robert DeNiro's entrance to the hospital at the beginning of Heat.

I think it's a Mann thing. He often revisits ideas, techniques and plot points in subsequent movies. He also re-uses character names and actors, often flip-flopping them from bad guy to good guy and vice-versa.; anyone else think Mark Ruffalo was channeling Al Pacino's Vincent Hanna when he was...

I think it's important to note that, unlike most of Mann's other films, like Heat, Ali and The Insider, he didn't write the screenplay for Collateral; maybe that's why the ending felt a little more "Hollywood," and seemed to lack Mann's usual precise attention to detail. Also, while Mann is a...

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