Tag: 2014

  • Interstellar is a yet another time twisty Nolan scenario

    Interstellar is a yet another time twisty Nolan scenario

    The torturously complex premise of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar requires a constant stream of exposition throughout, something I don’t recall being a problem in the director’s other time twisty scenarios like The Prestige and Inception. It’s also less emotionally urgent than either, perhaps indicating that the high-concept structure overwhelmed everything else. If Coop (Matthew McConaughey) — […]

  • The genesis of Genesis in the documentary Together and Apart

    The genesis of Genesis in the documentary Together and Apart

    This feature-length BBC documentary on the band Genesis comes with more asterisks than a typical rockumentary. First is the lack of occasion — there being no significant milestone in 2014, unless the band’s 47th-ish anniversary means something to somebody. Only further confusing things, the doc was released in different regions as Together and Apart or […]

  • Monty Python throws a farewell party for themselves in “Live (Mostly): One Down, Four to Go”

    Monty Python throws a farewell party for themselves in “Live (Mostly): One Down, Four to Go”

    Like many misfit American kids of my generation, my brain was permanently rewired when I discovered the BBC series Monty Python’s Flying Circus on PBS in the 1980s. Monty Python, Doctor Who, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy formed a triumvirate of British pop culture that gave dorky anglophiles like us a pool of […]