Name: amba
Weblog: ambivablog.typepad.com
Articles: 13
First Published: Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Last Published: Thursday, June 14, 2007
Currently listing articles 13-1:
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David Chase Whacks His Audience— Let the dead rest.
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Movie Review: Munich— Mesmerizing — more morally and dramatically sophisticated and paranoid than I thought Spielberg had in him.
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DVD Review: The Apprentice— Rip Van Winkle wakes up, reviews season one of The Apprentice.
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The You Decade?— It is that underground river of minds, that cultural collective unconscious now becoming conscious, surfacing with explosive, firehose force on Blogger, LiveJournal, and YouTube.
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What Makes A Commercial Great?— A well-known principle of evolution is that predator and prey refine each other. The same thing happens in advertising.
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TV Review: American Inventor— Tenacity is the mother of invention. And Central Casting just may be the father.
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Towards a New Revelation (Or, Why I Am Not a Traditionalist)— Traditions can allow embellishments or simplifications, but not ideas — not even self-evident truths — so new or foreign that they would pull it apart.
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DVD Review: Carrie— A look at Carrie as a parable.
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He Fell From a Star— ...
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I Love Jackie Chan— Tonight we stumbled on a pair of enthralling documentaries on the Independent Film Channel. "Spaghetti West" . . . followed, unannounced, by an
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Rescue Me Is So In Your Face!— ...
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The Siege— ...
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The Last Samurai— We tried to watch The Last Samurai on HBO last night . . . Oh God, what an awful movie. A huge slab of

