Saturday, March 5, 2016
Der schweigende Stern (1960)
When an alien artifact discovered on Earth is found to have come from Venus, an international team of astronauts embarks to investigate its origins.
East German - Polish sci-fi yarn is slow-paced, woodenly acted and has a slightly dubious political stance, but is otherwise well-crafted and offers some imaginative, even surreal settings.
Maltin**: "Well produced but stilted."
Friday, March 4, 2016
First Lines: Harry Crews - A Childhood. A Biography of a Place
My first memory is of a time ten years before I was born, and the memory takes place where I have never been and involves my daddy whom I never knew.
New Stuff: Fire! She Sleeps, She Sleeps
A new album by Fire!
"Fire! is a Swedish trio comprising Mats Gustafsson (The Thing), Johan Berthling (Tape) and Andreas Werliin (Wildbirds & Peacedrums) that came together with the idea of a fresh approach to improvised music, with a number of influences from free jazz, psychedelic rock and noise."
Reasonable Doubt (2014)
A District Attorney has his life turned upside down when he's involved in a hit and run and another man is arrested for his crime and charged with murder.
Fairly suspenseful thriller with an unconvincing plot and some unpleasant characters; once again, Samuel L. Jackson is worth the watch.
Maltin**: "Strictly by-the-numbers thriller is poorly scripted and filled with surprises that aren't very surprising."
New Stuff: The Supergirls
"This much-needed alternative history of American comic book icons—from Wonder Woman to Supergirl and beyond—delves into where these crime-fighting females fit in popular culture and why, and what their stories say about the role of women in society from their creation to now, and into the future."
New Stuff: The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time
"A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them."
Thursday, March 3, 2016
New Stuff: Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino
Now this is an interesting combination of artists, can't wait to take a listen.
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
First Lines: Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.
