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Hamlet 2 Directed by Andrew Fleming; rated R; out now A failed actor (Steve Coogan, in a turn that's both precise and grotesque) tries to mount a sci-fi musical sequel to Hamlet. Ostensibly satirizing high school inspirational movies, this ragged comedy lines up all the objects of scorn, then cops out with a rousing finish. It's typical of showbiz parodies that Hamlet 2 finally becomes what it purports to mock...
...Peter Chan's historical movie The Warlords - the big winner at the Hong Kong Film Awards in April. In fact, no filmmaker aiming for a significantly larger audience or budget can afford to ignore China, whether they're making epics or otherwise. This year's family hit CJ7, a sci-fi flick from hometown actor-director Stephen Chow, scored with expensive computer animation - and a ton of cross-border finance...
...converts such things into Kindle-book format for free; minutes later, I had a lovely version on the device. And since I like to get something for nothing, I downloaded from other sites a dozen great, free novels, ranging from James Joyce's Ulysses to Cory Doctorow's recent sci-fi novel, Little Brother. The giveaways motivated me to meet the Kindle halfway by figuring out how it wanted to be used rather than how I had expected...
...Happening Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan; rated R; out now A toxic breeze blows through the northeastern U.S., and people start killing themselves. A married couple (Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel) goes on the run to stay alive, but nothing can save the lamest sci-fi drama yet from the auteur of The Sixth Sense. Laced with bizarre histrionics and sluggish scare tactics, The Happening is an ill wind indeed...
...redemption depends on change, and traditional network TV depends on characters staying more or less the same for as many years as it takes for the ratings to give out. The time-bending sci-fi premise in Lost--certain characters become "unstuck in time" and can re-experience past events in their lives--dramatizes a human dilemma: Can you change your future, or are you fated to make the same mistakes forever? In a meta-way, that's the dilemma of traditional TV characters, who are damned to repeat the same patterns, trip over the same ottomans, forever. The revitalized...