Tag Archives: Video

headlines and links for the week of 10-11-04, updated daily

Direction and Story by Sabiha Sumar Screenplay by Paromita Vohra Silent Waters is an amazingly powerful tale of both personal struggle and historical significance. The year is 1979 when General Zia-ul-Haq seized power of the Pakistan government and pushed to make the country a model of Islam. The story is …

What a strange career Rodney Dangerfield had: vitrually unknown into his 40s, he offered up an endless line of bug-eyed, frenetic, self-deprecating one-liners, tugging at his tie like it was a malevolent noose. After rising to the top of the standup heap, he broke into movies as a dissolute but …

For October: revisiting 1963's landmark "appalling" gore/horror flick. . .

Exceptional actress best known for the black and white trilogy Psycho, Touch of Evil, and The Manchurian Candidate, extraordinary beauty, and the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis, Janet Leigh died Sunday at her home in Beverly Hills at 77. She will always be remembered for Psycho, of course, as the …

Squeezing in one last session before they left town for (another) extended motor vehicle tour of the Southwest, we dropped the baby off with my parents and took the almost 5 year-old to the Saturday matinee of DreamWorks’ Shark Tale (which broke box office records for an October opening, hooking …

Mike Watt is one of my heroes: a fiercely independent musician who isn’t afraid to deal with beast of the mainstream music industry from within, yet he has always set his own terms and never become dependent upon the Great White Teat. Musically, a bass player of range and creativity, …

No matter what strange powers or peculiarities you may possess or have available to you, you are still you, and still have to deal with the same shit as everyone else – cool powers only make life more complicated, not less. And unlike more prosaic jobs, there is no real …

Treasure! Knights! Founding Fathers! High tech capers! Secrets spanning centuries! Wow – that’s the most ripping trailer (WM) (Real) (QuickTime) I’ve seen in a long time. My heart is pounding, my eyes twitching, my imagination fired (I’ve GOT to get into PR one of these days). I’m not kidding, National …

"A long time ago, we used to be friends. . ."