Miami Vice, L'Intrus, V for Vendetta
Remember the Colin Farrell who stole scenes from Tom Cruise in Minority Report? What happened to that guy? He doesn't show up in Miami Vice (2006, Michael Mann) [38], but then, that's really the least...
View ArticleMission: Impossible III, 4, Feast
Here's a surprise: Mission: Impossible III (2006, J.J. Abrams) [76] doesn't suck. After seeing it in the theaters earlier this year, I took another look at it on video, fully ready to demote it from my...
View ArticleCe N'est Pas Une Update
No, nothing new to post yet; not even baby pics. (Laura Mae apparently thinks she's leased a condo in that womb; the kid is severely mistaken.) But! Coming soon is a tripartite review of three "women's...
View ArticleThe Descent, Silent Hill, The Wicker Man (2006)
I was the only person, it seems, who was underwhelmed by Neil Marshall's Dog Soldiers. Yes, it was a pretty nifty werewolf flick considering the low-budget, but in terms of characters, story, etc., it...
View ArticleFor The Ages: ScreenGrab Posts (2/18/07 - 2/24/07)
Sorry about the lack of new posts, folks. As you may have heard, I'm writing posts for the film blog ScreenGrab, and getting paid for it to boot. There will be new material here -- I swear on my...
View ArticleFor The Ages: ScreenGrab Posts (2/25/07 - 3/3/07)
A really active week for me, considering baby Laura is only about two weeks old. This week, I have three YouTube videos with the loose theme of "looking for horror in the wrong places", each with a...
View Article300
A few short notes on 300 (2007, Zack Snyder) [40]:1. Fascistic, misogynistic, racist, homophobic... but ridiculously so, so that what should be offensive loops back around into the hilarious. Don't...
View ArticleFor The Ages: ScreenGrab Posts (3/4/07 - 3/10/07)
After last week's frenzy of posts, things slow way down as the reality of Laura Mae takes hold. This week, I only have one solo post, a personal history of the Watchmen movie.Watchmen is my favorite...
View ArticleBorat: Cultural Learnings of America Make For Benefit Glorious Nation of...
A few short notes on Borat (2006, Larry Charles) [78]:1. I assumed, after the huge hype, the blockbuster receipts, and the inevitable backlash, that this would never live up to the acclaim and...
View ArticleGrindhouse
Some really quick notes about Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez/Rob Zombie/Edgar Wright/Eli Roth/Quentin Tarantino) [overall: 81; Planet Terror: 66; Death Proof: 87]:1. All of those complaining that...
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Interview: Dan Gildark & Grant Cogswell of Cthulhu
(This interview was originally done for ScreenGrab, and it appears on that site in a shortened form here. Many thanks to Peter Smith for letting me crosspost!)Dan Gildark and Grant Cogswell premiered...
View ArticleCatsup, Part 1
Whoah! Dusty in here. Smells funny, too. That's what happens when you leave a blog sitting out for so long, I guess.Gonna attempt to cover all the movies I've seen since the last update, going in...
View ArticleCatsup, Part 2
Part two in my attempt to recap all the movies I haven't already written about. I'm allowed to keep it to one sentence if I want. Funny that hasn't happened yet.The Return of Count Yorga (1971, Bob...
View ArticleNot Necessarily The 3rd Annual Onion A/V Club Film Poll Ballot
(Note: I was going to give up on sending comments to the Onion film poll this year, because I'd tried to write some blurbs this past week and just ended up frustrated. But today's the due date, and I...
View ArticleNecessarily The 3rd Annual Onion A/V Club Film Poll Ballot
(First off, congratulations to Dread Pirate Steven Carlson and Paul Clark for getting quoted in this year's A/V Club Film Poll, and congratulations to the three guys who won Best in Show. Wish it was...
View ArticleThe Muriel Awards are Coming! The Werewolves are Here!
But enough about that small-time Onion thing. The real deal is upon us -- The Muriel Awards. The Muriels are run by one Paul Clark, a former mob hitman and commodities trader who, after a fateful...
View ArticleMuriel Awards 2006: Best Breakthrough Performance
(A little over a year ago, I wrote that I'd be posting my ballot for the 2006 Muriel Awards. I said "coming soon", and a year's pretty soon if you look at it, y'know, from geological point of view....
View ArticleThe Whitest Kid You Know
(Seen for the White Elephant Blog-a-Thon.) 1. 10 Tracks of Wack: Kickin' It Old Skool (2007, Harvey Glazer) is a painful, painful movie. Not because it makes the easiest, laziest jokes every single...
View Article"The Watchman" Debuts!
(Well, it actually debuted two weeks ago a couple months ago, but I've been busy.)In case you read this blog and don't follow me on Twitter (and if so -- who are you?), I've been hired on at the new...
View Article"The Watchman" Ends!
Well, that wasn't a bad run for my first time as a paid columnist. I mean, it could've been better, sure, but the fact that I was able to do it for approximately eight months and complete 17 articles...
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