I’m having a hard time collecting my thoughts about Hugo because I’m not sure how to write about it definitively yet. My thoughts are still percolating. I’d say that’s a good sign. I’ve seen plenty of movies this year that I forgot about the moment I stepped out of the theater. That’s far from [...]
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From The Archives: AVATAR (2009).
Posted: December 29, 2011 in Action., Aliens, Badass Old Guys, Boobs, Cats, Dragons, Guns, Movies (A), Robots, Sci-Fi, SpaceBeen thinking about the 3-D format lately, due to Hugo. Seems a good reason to review some thoughts from two years back. Avatar is like nothing you’ve ever seen before, even though you’ve absolutely seen this story many times before. Is that a coy contradiction? Is it a negative statement? I hope not. I [...]
31 FLAVORS OF HORROR #26: CHOPPING MALL (1986).
Posted: October 30, 2011 in 31 Flavors Of Horror, Awfulness, Movies (C), RobotsSome movies can only be watched after midnight. They shouldn’t be fed, but they can be watched. And they’ll be watched by a very specific kind of personality. For me, it started sometime in the very early 1990s. If I wasn’t wearing out my Ghostbusters or Big Trouble In Little China VHS tapes, I was [...]
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art is running a great film series this month called Pixar Revisited, where they will be screening pretty much the entire catalogue of the much-loved, industry-revolutionizing animation house. Wall-E, maybe my favorite Pixar movie to date, is screening tomorrow, Friday, at 4:30pm, and then again on Saturday July 9th at 8pm. Here’s [...]
Movie Review: IRON MAN 2 (2010).
Posted: May 6, 2010 in Comics, Movies, Opinions, Pretty Girls, Robots, SuperheroesRead my review! At its best moments, Iron Man 2 is a thrillingly convincing argument for how much goddamn fun it would be to hop into that suit and be Iron Man. Scratch that. At its best moments, Iron Man 2 is a depressingly convincing argument for why Ryan Reynolds is the luckiest [...]
