Girls is the story of a bunch of 20 something lowlifes living in New York and fucking anything that moves. Since the show is only thirty minutes long these isn’t a lot of room for silly things like character development or motivation. Our mostly struggling lot met someone, have sex with them, and than wonder-hmm, who was that, anyway? when they wake up somewhere strange. These are all unlikeable people doing unlikable things-but that hasn’t stopped Two and Half Men from running for a zillion years. The difference with Girls is that it wants to be the Art House stupid…
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Another Earth
Another low budget sort-of-science-fiction film with a lot of art house appeal. Another Earth is about a woman who is in a car crash and crippled with guilt over her irresponsible actions. She spends years in jail and then stalkes the man she plowed into. She spends a lot of time moping around and looking sad and remorseful. In the background of this sad sack story of a drunk driver is the secondary story of a second earth appearing in the sky one day. The other earth is an exact duplicate of our own earth. It keeps getting closer and…
The Social Network
Before The Social Network movie came out, I had never heard of Mark Zuckerberg. I certainly had never heard of the many other people who went to battle with him over the billion dollar empire that Facebook has become. And even now, just a couple of hours after watching The Social Network, I couldn’t tell you who any of these other people are. Other than the fact that two of them were twins with weird last names who rowed in the Olympics. But I did like the movie. There is something just flat out amazing about the idea that some…