little bit of a redesign

I spent a chunk of hours yesterday freshening up the look of the site. Hope you like it. The changes are mostly cosmetic, with a few exceptions. I moved the posting date and time and the post category to up above the post title, because I think that info was getting lost. (I’ve gotten way … more…

trailer break: ‘Eagle Eye’

Take a break from work: watch a movie trailer… Damn, I hate when that happens! You’re just a regular person having regular fun with your regular friends, and then you’re so special that the FBI and supersecret anarchist terrorists want you. Actually, I’m guessing poor Shia is stuck in the Matrix. Eagle Eye opens September … more…

screencap Friday: what the flick? #34

Friday fun! Here’s a screen capture from one of the DVDs in my collection (and it’s definitely from a movie, not a TV show). Guess the movie for fun and, well, fun. No prizes, just bragging rights. But hey: one guess per comment — no fair hogging all the guesses.

5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘Igor’

All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in September, and 5 reasons why. No. 5: Igor [opens September 19]. 1. Mad science fair! All the maddest scientists in the land of Malaria are getting together for their annual competition, but this year, one of their assistants — one of the igors! — is gonna … more…

so much for “write what you know”

Aaron Sorkin is writing a movie about Facebook. What’s it going to be about? Well, he doesn’t even know yet, because he has no idea what Facebook is. As seen in the Guardian: “I’ve just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented,” Sorkin wrote in his … more…

5 reasons I’m psyched for ‘Blindness’

All this week! 5 movies I’m psyched for in September, and 5 reasons why. No. 4: Blindness [opens limited September 12]. -1. This is not cool: the Blindness official site linked above keeps crashing two different browsers on my computer. I’d say that was supposed to be some kind of joke, but it’s not funny. … more…

Traitor (review)

Well, it took only seven years, two invasions, one extralegal offshore prison, pretend justifications for torture, and the trashing of the U.S. Constitution, but here we finally have it: the smartest, savviest, most seditious movie yet about the ‘global war on terror.’

Frozen River movie review

The stories of women are so disparaged — or worse, ignored — in our culture unless they have something to do with pleasing men, but here’s one that demands to be seen.