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Yeah, it’s a bit dated. I doubt anyone today would want to hear that things were actually pretty awesome during the Great Depression. And it’s both laughable and sad that it’s promoted as a good thing that Americans drive more cars than anyone else on the planet. We rock! Until the oil runs out! But … more…
Or he does, but he doesn’t realize he does. I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but kept putting it off because I couldn’t quite put my finger on what’s wrong with it. But I’ve just figured it out. See, back in May, fantasy author Terry Pratchett wrote an essay for SFX about … more…
Sometimes a WTF moment is so jaw-droppingly WTFish that you have to stop, back up a step or two, cock your head like a mystified puppy getting its first look at the most awesomely balliest ball ever — like you can’t believe how perfectly inexplicable the excellence of its roundness and the fineness of its … more…
I am delighted to announce that starting with this week’s new releases, my reviews will be featured at Movie Review Intelligence. MRI is a review aggregator similar to Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, though it uses a somewhat different metric to award overall grades. Like Metacritic, its selection of critics is quite selective, and it’s a … more…
Better than *Toy Story 3.* Really.
Underpants joke. But no fart joke. That’s a net positive, I think. I remember enjoying Beverly Cleary’s Ramona books when I was a kid. But I do remember them mostly being about Ramona, not about her older teenage pop star sister. That must have come after I moved on from third grade… Ramona and Beezus … more…
As it always does, the inevitable has come to pass. The Swedish film The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is getting the Hollywood treatment. Never mind that the original film is a worldwide phenomenon that has earned more than $100 million worldwide, including more than $9 million in North America, which ranks it respectably as … more…
Very funny. From director Chris Renaud, whose next project is Despicable Me:
See it if you love movies with compelling characters doing fascinating things and overcoming tremendous obstacles to get to an immensely satisfying end. You know: the things that movies are supposed to do, but rarely seem to manage.
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