Posted in Uncategorized on November 15, 2009 | 6 Comments »
“This is not a democracy, it’s a cheerocracy.”
Bring It On owes a lot to both Clueless and Joss Whedon. It has that quality Clueless had of making vapid girls seem interesting and fun, plus the similar storyline of the pretty blonde falling for the smart brunette guy. The dialogue is pretty much a mix of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pee Wee's Big Adventure on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve never gotten Pee Wee Herman. I understand the guilty pleasure of this movie, a movie wherein the titular character goes all over America searching for his beloved bike. I understand that filtered through the nostalgia of childhood, Pee Wee’s cute and funny, but even when I was a kid, I didn’t watch Pee Wee’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 13, 2009 | 19 Comments »
Thanks to the magic of Twitter, I got approval from some readers on this that they were interested in this, so I’m posting it here.
I’ll be doing a blogathon on Halloween of scary movies, and as always, I’m letting you guys do the programming. So you drop what you want in the comments and I’ll [...]
Posted in Reader's Choice, Romance, Uncategorized, tagged Alan Rickman, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, guilty pleasure, Hugh Grant, Laura Linney, Liam Neeson, Love Actually, reader, Reader's Choice, romantic comedy on October 7, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I’ve reviewed Love Actually before (see here) but I went back and watched it again for Reader’s Choice.
Set a few weeks before Christmas and leading up to the big day itself, the movie examines the lives and loves of several groups of people, from family to friends and romantic relationships. It’s a tricky thing to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 7, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Kevin Lehane, who you might have seen kicking around here on the comments, made the 2009 Brit List. It’s like The Black List, but for the UK. If you have no idea of what those lists are, they involve the best scripts currently floating around in the industry. You get the idea.
Anyways, Kevin wrote this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2009 | 9 Comments »
So, picture this: It’s a day in mid-September and I’m happily typing away at my computer, totally ignoring some stuff I need to get done and…
Blue screen of death.
Except it wasn’t just that because when I rebooted I had what could be termed a “half-working” computer, one without internet, word processing or any sort of, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on September 7, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I SAY, WELL PLAYED.
It took me a long time to sit down and write this for two reasons: 1) I had to see Inglourious Basterds more than once; 2) I needed some time to digest the movie and let it roll around in my head for a while.
In Nazi-occupied France, Hans Landa is hunting Jews [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There may be problems posting for the next few days because I’m having computer issues. There may be a new computer (sadly) in my immediate future. I hope not, but maybe.
Let’s all cross our fingers, huh?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The older I get, the more I find Sid Vicious and his oft-repeated life story to be worthy of little more than an eyeroll.
The older I get, though, the more and more interesting I find Gary Oldman’s portrayal of Sid Vicious.
Weird?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Why are there so many holiday themed horror movies? Halloween I can understand, but Christmas, Valentine’s Day, and now April Fool’s Day? Gracious. Does this mean some day I can look forward to President’s Day, where the reanimated corpses of former U.S. Presidents rise from their graves to fight an ancient evil?
Okay, so [...]
