Roger Ebert is Blogging
The Yoda of movie reviews is blogging at http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/.
Every year I keep meaning to include "Joe vs. the Volcano" in Ebertfest, and every year something else squeezes it out, some film more urgently requiring our immediate attention, you see. The 1990 John Patrick Shanley film, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, was about a wage slave in a factory where dark clouds lower o'er the sky; he is told he has a Brain Cloud, with only five months to live. How this leaves him to become a candidate for human sacrifice in the South Seas follows a long and winding road, in a film that was a failure in every possible way except that I loved it.
via Kottke.
"Take me to the volcano!"
"Brain Cloud? Didn't you get a second opinion?"
Posted by: eviltimes | April 30, 2008 at 11:33 AM
awesome to see roger back! too bad he wont make it to ebertfest, but luckily for us and him, there is always next year....
Posted by: nipsey russell | April 30, 2008 at 01:02 PM
I love that movie, too. And I get nothing but #$%^ about it from my friends. Nice to see that I at least have Ebert on my side!
Posted by: Mike | May 01, 2008 at 11:52 AM
Ditto!
Posted by: Becky | May 02, 2008 at 07:41 PM