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The Moment that Infinite Jest Broke Me
In my first official Infinite Jest post, I discuss the moment I could finally relate to Hal Incandenza, junior tennis wunderkind and dictionary memorizer extraordinaire. Reader, I wept.
Friday, 31 December 2010
Thursday, 2 December 2010
Monsters (Gareth Edwards, 2010)
Review originally written for The 405, here: http://thefourohfive.com/reviews/3138
Let me begin by telling you what Monsters is not. It is not Skyline, this year’s entry into Hollywood’s annals of over-marketed bad ideas. It is not District 9, last year's big low budget sci-fi success. Monsters, like great indie classics such as Before Sunset and Lost in Translation, uses a fantastical setting to tell an essentially human story. It starts when the horror story is long over and other stories begin to take precedence.
Monsters jumps off from a classic sci-fi springboard: a space shuttle finds alien life on one of Jupiter’s...
