Ocsar Wilde championed the notion that life imitates art. He believed the old saying “results not merely from life’s imitative instinct, but from the fact that the self-conscious aim of Life is to find expression, and that Art offers it certain beautiful forms through which it may realize that energy.” Wilde was a miraculous writer and thinker. But sometimes the classic Aristotelian worldview he opined against proves just as accurate. Sometimes art imitates life. To my disgust, such is the case with Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier film and the history of the United States. Kind of.
[*Spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Ed Brubaker's Captain America run to follow.]
If you’re reading this, you’ve likely seen it. Cap 2 made over 700 million dollars worldwide. It was a success commercially (still only fifth highest grossing of 2014), but more than that it was respected by critics for its political-thriller/espionage flare that set it squarely in our post-Patriot Act, drones at the ready,...
[*Spoilers for Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Ed Brubaker's Captain America run to follow.]
If you’re reading this, you’ve likely seen it. Cap 2 made over 700 million dollars worldwide. It was a success commercially (still only fifth highest grossing of 2014), but more than that it was respected by critics for its political-thriller/espionage flare that set it squarely in our post-Patriot Act, drones at the ready,...
- 10/30/2014
- by Dan Black
- SoundOnSight
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Warning: This review will contain spoilers
Jamie Brittain does it again. After the last time he wrote an episode featuring Cook (Series 4 Episode 7), there was some doubt in my mind about how well he’d pick up on the character and his story but here he has excelled himself with an episode that’s well-paced and exciting but also manages to have a lot of depth, along with a shockingly dark climax.
But as with basically everything, this episode’s not completely perfect. The first ten minutes are a little slow and the first of the episode’s two sex scenes feels a bit gratuitous and played for laughs, which feels somewhat at odds with the darker tone that builds up later on but those issues aren’t enough to negatively affect the whole episode.
The most experimental part of the episode is Cook’s voiceover...
Warning: This review will contain spoilers
Jamie Brittain does it again. After the last time he wrote an episode featuring Cook (Series 4 Episode 7), there was some doubt in my mind about how well he’d pick up on the character and his story but here he has excelled himself with an episode that’s well-paced and exciting but also manages to have a lot of depth, along with a shockingly dark climax.
But as with basically everything, this episode’s not completely perfect. The first ten minutes are a little slow and the first of the episode’s two sex scenes feels a bit gratuitous and played for laughs, which feels somewhat at odds with the darker tone that builds up later on but those issues aren’t enough to negatively affect the whole episode.
The most experimental part of the episode is Cook’s voiceover...
- 7/30/2013
- by James T. Cornish
- Obsessed with Film
Twitter, as part of its review of 2010, has just released what it thinks are the 10 most powerful individual tweets of the year--from a field of 25 billion. And it's not all about celebrity.
Perhaps conscious of its increasingly important role in world affairs, driven by historic moments like the Iranian election protests and gulf oil spill--both of which were news items that the world used Twitter to announce and talk about--Twitter's team has looked at its archive for 2010 and tried to identify which 10 of its tweets were the most important for this year.
The company explains "every day we are inspired by people using Twitter in unexpected ways to make the world a better place. Powerful Tweets have impact, relevance, and resonance." To mine the most powerful of 25 billion tweets, the team didn't necessarily have to find those that came from important Tweeters (say, President Obama) or concerned internationally important events,...
Perhaps conscious of its increasingly important role in world affairs, driven by historic moments like the Iranian election protests and gulf oil spill--both of which were news items that the world used Twitter to announce and talk about--Twitter's team has looked at its archive for 2010 and tried to identify which 10 of its tweets were the most important for this year.
The company explains "every day we are inspired by people using Twitter in unexpected ways to make the world a better place. Powerful Tweets have impact, relevance, and resonance." To mine the most powerful of 25 billion tweets, the team didn't necessarily have to find those that came from important Tweeters (say, President Obama) or concerned internationally important events,...
- 12/14/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
Screen Gems’ thriller “Obsessed” topped the box office with an estimated $28.5 million. The Steve Shill-helmed film from the writing by David Lougherty averaged $11,337 from 2,514 theatres. Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter lead the cast which includes Jerry O’Connell, Bonnie Perlman and Christine Lahti. Warner Bros. Pictures’ “17 Again,” last weekend’s top film starring Zac Efron and Matthew Perry, dropped 51% in its sophomore weekend with around $11.6 million grossed. Total brought in from the comedy is now just under $40 million. Channing Tatum and Terrence Howard starrer “Fighting” managed third position with $11.4 million despite an overall bad response from both critics and fans alike. This is the second collaboration between Tatum and Dito Montiel who worked together on “A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.” Paramount’s “The Soloist” made its debut in fourth place with $9.7 million pulled in from 2,024 theatres. Joe Wright helmed film stars Robert Downey Jr., Jamie Foxx and Catherine Keener.
- 4/26/2009
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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