Theoria

Inside Man – I’ve never seen a Denzel Washington movie I liked (c.f., Training Day, The Bone Collector). Whereas The Bone Collector had Queen Latifah and Training Day had Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, Inside Man had the creepiest looking man in Hollywood, Willem Dafoe. The conjunction of Willem Dafoe as hardened SWAT Captain John [...]

We resumed watching “Battlestar Galactica” this weekend and should likely finish season 2.0 (i.e., the first half of the second season) on DVD within the week. Consequently, we didn’t watch many movies this weekend. Indeed, we only watched one movie and I wonder how well that time was spent: The Sentinel – Has that guy [...]

This weekend too was characterized by a lot of bad movies. For instance, Silent Hill – Normally we really like movies based upon video games. What could be stupider? Here’s a possible answer: this movie. We had absolutely no clue what was going on. The movie started out dumb and generic (girl has nightmares suggesting [...]

Elsewhere, an admiring and jealous reader – no doubt jealous of my good looks, encyclopedic knowledge, and vast intellect – writes, “I [i.e., my admiring and jealous reader] post ‘tiresome tripe’? Well, of [sic] the RSS you go. [...] In this sense, Craig — despite being a stupid idiot of a pseudo-Foucauldian in desperate need [...]

Hardly a surprise, but female professors in Canada are underpaid in comparison to male professors at the same rank, they are hired at a lower rate (i.e., disproportionate to number of female doctorate graduates), and have a harder time securing promotions. Article “below the fold.” This is on top of the annual audit of the [...]