Entries Tagged as 'review'
Review: Reaper v. Buffy
So, I’ve been watching Reaper and enjoying it. The pilot was easily the best one, the rest have stabilized at “pretty entertaining.” While watching it, it occurred to me that it had some obvious similaries to early Buffy - from cast structure to generalized stories - enough that it made me want to watch my [...]
Mini Review: Mix Tape by Thurston Moore
Ok, here’s how this post was born. A bit ago I posted on some Joy Division shoes. Matthew R Walker posted an interesting comment that led me to his blog. Searched around for the post he referenced and then spent a little more time checking out his postings (lotta interesting stuff there) and came across [...]
Bionic Woman, part II
I don’t have a lot to say, the second show was about as good as the first. I neither confirm nor deny that the show could be awesome. It definitely had it’s moments, but it had it’s fair share of the cheese too. The acting is often sub-par and the cold color palette is tough [...]
Review: Chuck and Heroes, Part II
Well, the Chuck and Heroes premiers came and were disappointing but good enough for me to give ‘em a second round. That day has come and gone and what’s the verdict? Chuck? Thhhbbbppppttt. Heroes? Ehhhhhh….. (beware there be spoilers ahead)
Chuck. Turns out all the badness of the first one wasn’t just pilot episode badness, it [...]
Online Finance Review II: Mint (v. Yodlee and a little Wesabe)
I finally got around to checking out mint.com - a new(ish)comer to the world of money management websites. Just so you know where I’m coming from I use Yodlee.com. I really like Yodlee.com. I also took a spin around Wesabe and think it’s pretty interesting and probably better for some people than Yodlee. (check out [...]
Review: Bionic Woman
UPDATE: The ratings are in and Bionic Woman did quite well with 13.9 million viewers. It built on it’s lead in from Deal or No Deal and in fact grew even more in the second half of the show. Sweet.
You know of the three premiers I was looking forward to (the other two being Chuck [...]
Mini Review: Hotel Chevalier by Wes Anderson
UPDATE 3: Well, now that the credits are right there, that song is “Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)” by Peter Sarstedt. It’s on the youtubes. It was his big #1 hit in ‘69. And I was close with the lyric, it’s “With your carefully designed topless swimsuit / You get an even suntan [...]
Review: Amazon’s MP3 store
UDPATE: Just read this on DF but Amazon has obliged Radiohead and is only selling their albums, not individual songs. Nice! Go Amazon!
Huh, so Amazon just launched their MP3 store. I’ve been curious about how it’d be, Unbox - as awful and exclusionary as it is made me wonder how Amazon’s execution would be for [...]
Reviews: Chuck and Heroes Premier
So last night marked the beginning of tv premier week. First two up that I care about were Chuck and Heroes. Both of which I thought were, ok but disappointing. Some mild spoiling ahead, probably, so if you haven’t seen the shows and plan on it, read on at your own peril.
Chuck’s the story of [...]
Two good movies - Helvetica and Once
So I saw not one, but two good movies this weekend. It’s pretty rare that I see more than one movie in a given weekend, much less two good ones, so I thought I’d write a quick bit on them.
First I saw Helvetica, I’d been waiting for awhile to see this one - to [...]
