Synopsis

Director Sandy Bates (Woody Allen), depressed about his reputation as a comedic director, recalls his failed relationship with actress Dorrie (Charlotte Rampling).

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Help space ace Dexter save Kimmy from the evil Borf, wielder of the dreaded Infanto Ray. Port of the classic arcade game featuring traditional animation by Don Bluth.

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Over the past two weeks I watched all eleven Star Trek movies - some of which I hadn’t seen in years - both in preparation for the new Star Trek (11) movie, and to get a clearer perspective on the entire franchise. As a result I feel pretty confident in the following - albeit highly personal - ranking from best to worst:

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Synopsis

The Enterprise must thwart a plot by the plastic-surgery obsessed alien race Ru’afo to take over a planet occupied by the peaceful and technology-eschewing Ba’ku people.

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No, not mine, but thoughts on this recent, must read article on how one American family found themselves over their head in debt and are now facing foreclosure and bankruptcy. The added sauce is this fellow is an economics reporter for the New York Times. So, to put it bluntly, he should have known better.

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Synopsis

Set fifty years before Battlestar Galactica, successful technologist Daniel Graystone (Eric Stoltz) and lawyer Joseph Adama (Esai Morales) face some tough ethical choices regarding cutting-edge technology after their daughters perish in a terrorist attack.

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FriendFeed, known in my tiny universe as the only social site I use with any regularity anymore other than Twitter, just made their beta live as the default version of the site.

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112 Ways To Save Money

C’mon, you must be trying to save money these days. Frugal is the new black.

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Really great article over at the Economist about Internet television steadily moving from the computer to the living room, and scaring cable companies in the process. This internet television thing is a likely foundation for the “digital video nirvana” situation I am personally jonesing for.

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Reading this post at Foriegn Policy regarding the prohibitive amount of noise on Twitter regarding the swine flu had me thinking of ways Twitter could actually be used to stop the spread of disease rather than spreading disinformation.

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