Daily Archives: November 4, 2007

Batman Begins [2005] 1. Best thing: Gary Oldman slyly underplaying his role, cast (gulp!) as a sympathetic character for the first time in about a million years. That moustache was so cool.2. At the end, just about the most shameless … Continue reading →

V.O. [2007] 1. Thank God that fringed leather boots are no longer in fashion.2. Weird subway encounter: Jake Gyllenhaal sort-of look-alike cruises Gary Numan look-alike.3. Unconscious ethnography: Southern California vs. Manhattan. In 70’s porn there’s no in between.

“What was this city, then, if such as myself, on a low budget, could essentially see, do and eat whatever I wanted without straining my wallet? Were the skyscrapers merely a prairie mirage, a veil for the cheap, accessible delights … Continue reading →

I needed a good laugh and found it right here: 1977 J.C. Penney Catalog Life seems a little less bleak when I see stuff like that.