What the Flick

Holy Mists of Avalon! This summer's take on KING ARTHUR takes place way back when, before the Renaissance, or the Dark Ages, or the movie CAMELOT, or Jackie Kennedy even. According to a little blurb at the beginning of the movie, this version is based on some new archeological findings or something - if it's scientific, I'm a Saxon. But the lack of historical veracity didn't diminish my enjoyment of this rousing tale of handsome Lancelot, Tristan, Gawain, and the others in black leather battling Saxons and some typically bad English weather.

I keep thinking that there are interesting and creepy and timely conundrums for films to explore around the issues of cloning and various other reproductive technologies. But the movies that come out just shirk all that and rely on either total junk science or cheap thrills or incomprehensible plots. Three examples have come to my attention recently.