This is my place to vent, to pontificate, to educate, to defame, to expound, and yes, to wax rhapsodic. It's my personal brand of logic applied to the world, and it works for me.
So, I finally got around to reading “The Watchman” graphic novel, just a week after seeing The Watchmen movie in theatres. I’m not going to be posting a review, since this is certainly one movie that has certainly been reviewed to death. Suffice it to say, the movie did some things better than the comic, [...]
I’m sure there’s an obvious joke about The Rock and a Mountain that I’m missing. So, today I took my eight-year-old to see The Race to Witch Mountain, and I will say I was pleasantly surprised. I mean, I’ve been seeing horrible reviews for this movie all over the place, despite my abhorrence of reviews [...]
And not just the ones in my nightmares. So, this morning, I’m thinking about sitting through the mixed bag they call the Oscars last night, and wondering if I’m the only one that’s tired of them. I mean, to give credit where credit is due, it’s a show that’s no worse than any other award [...]
Yesterday, after bitching about The Dark Knight, it got me to thinking about comic book movies in general, and what makes them work, or, more often, not work, in terms of the medium of film. I think I tend to have blinders on with regards to comic movies, since I’ve been reading comics most of [...]
Well, Awards season is upon us, and as a self-proclaimed geek, I’d be remiss if I didn’t speak out against a little problem I’m having with the Academy Awards this year. Look, let’s face facts — the big winner at the box office this year was a definitive one, by the name of “The Dark [...]
So, thanks to my friend Allison, my wife and I have begun going back and watching old Bond films. Part of me thinks it’s due primarily to the release of the new Bond film, but that only precipitated the discussion with Al, which had me discover she’d never seen a Bond film. She’d heard that [...]
Last night, my wife, my friend Kurt and I went to see the latest action extravaganza: Shoot 'Em Up. Not to write a movie review, but the flick was a fairly inventive addition to the genre, and followed the 80's template of great characters, great one-liners, inventive action, and zero plot. But it's the characterizations [...]