The Messier Brand

Virginia Heffernan on the film version of A Wrinkle in Time:

"… the film is also sad, and soaring. It recalls the hippie days when a perverse, hubristic originality was a quality to be cultivated, not medicated. Told not from an aloof remove– through the eyes of a wise Yoda or Peter Jackson– the movie glitters irregularly, woven through with the sparkling fibers of a righteous child's tormented imagination. Steven Spielberg also attempted, with the same ambiguous but moving results, this messier brand of science fiction in 'A.I.'"

Log24 on
 Jan. 21, 2007:

 

California Dreamin', Part II

Spielberg, A.I., and Robot Wisdom

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An entry of
Dec. 29, 2006,
and entries of
Jan. 20, 2007.

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 previous entries.

Happy birthday,
Denny Doherty.