"Yes, nothing goes better with a brutal political attack than acoustic guitars and whistling."

That's sarcasm , but I actually think incongruously lighthearted music is captivating. Can you think of some examples of incongruously l...

Siri on iPhone 4S.

My son Chris emailed to say he thinks it's creepy and... If Steve Jobs were still in charge, would he have thought it was a good idea to...

"Before he started making movies, Stanley Kubrick was a star photojournalist."

"In the summer of 1949, Look magazine sent him to Chicago to shoot pictures for a story called 'Chicago City of Contrasts.'...

A Drudgtaposition that didn't last very long — for good reason.

Earlier today, Drudge had this photo juxtaposition: To become aware of the full — and, I would say, fully intended — subliminal effect, you...

Tony Curtis, RIP.

He was 85. As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew first and foremost on his startlingly good looks. With his dark, curly hair, worn in a sculptural...

Things I wrote about movies in 1999.

Ha. This is fun for me to read. 5 years before I started blogging, I wrote up some opinions about movies in IMDB, under the pen name Alizar...

"Mrs. Ann, do you have (or could you produce) a list of 'DVD's you deem essential?'"

C Black sees a phrase I used and makes a request. I'm here to answer your questions, so, based on a quick scan of the shelf and probabl...

Why an article about how the French love Obama has me watching a clip from "Full Metal Jacket."

1. I see on Memeorandum — my favorite starting point for finding bloggable things — that the French love Obama: "Obamania Sweeps Franc...

Kubrick.

Bloopers:

That conversation about a whole lot of blood.

Another one of Jack Handey's "Deeper Thoughts," read aloud... You know what's probably a good thing to hang on your porch...

"John Updike writing about terrorism?"

Michiko Kakutani goes after "[t]he bard of the middle-class mundane, the chronicler of suburban adultery and angst" for his look ...

The color of movies.

Martin Scorsese just came out with two lists of ten films that have the best use of light and color. English Language Films 1. Barry Lyndon...

When the movie is better than the book.

When I started to write this post , I had the misimpression that the article I was linking to was going to be about movies that are better t...

At the Kubrick archive, the dog is not well. ( Via Metafilter ) Access to the Kubrick archive leads to strange discoveries: … a large roo...