three short reviews

Avatar is an epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron. For the most part, most complaints stem from the story line, which is said to sound like ‘Dances with Wolves.” It's also said that as Titanic had themes of "Romeo and Juliet", Avatar has themes of "Pocahontas." Still yet, there's one thing everyone agrees on: the special effects are awesome. The Na'vi - the 10 foot tall blue creatures are unlike anything ever seen before. The colors, the special effects, everything in this film are what make the show so awesome. Want to see something really great? Go see Avatar in 3D, the film is phenomenal.
Avatar, directed by James Cameron. 2009

In his newest poetry book Peter Gizzi writes about “nothing.” It’s a little bit of satiric poetry. “In Defense of Nothing”? In everyday life, in mathematics and science "nothing" does not have a technical meaning. “Nothing” is zero. But in poetry, “nothing” could mean something very important. The poet is saying, “It’s hard to imagine atoms, hydrogen & oxygen binding” (53). Without “hydrogen & oxygen binding,“ we cannot live more than three minutes. We do not think about it everyday, but it is part of our existence. I would suggest that is what makes his poetry interesting. That’s why the poet wants to defend nothing but air on which everything lives on planet Earth.
Some Values of Landscape and Weather
by Peter Gizzi. Wesleyan University Press 2003

Love and Theft, Bob Dylan’s 2001 album, looms large in his storied catalog, and not just because it came out on 9/11. Sure, “Lonesome Day Blues” and “High Water (for Charley Patton)” were spooky-prescient meditations on autumn 2001’s. “Summer Days” and the lascivious stomp of “Cry a While” showed that Dylan wasn’t through giving pleasure or cracking wise, either “Last night ’cross the alley/There was a pounding on the walls.” Add to the package his best backing band in decades, and it’s all over but the debate with your boomer parents about whether this achievement equals Blonde on Blonde.