Knowing (review)
Imagine that the nitwits who wrote those preposterous *Left Behind* apocalyptic end-times fantasies decided to try their pens at something *X-Files*-y…
X-Files
‘Torchwood’ blogging: “From Out of the Rain”
Tons of spoilers! Don’t read unless you’ve seen the episode!
question of the day: What is the enduring appeal of the ‘Law and Order’ franchise?
This suggestion for a QOTD came in from reader Patrick before I posted yesterday’s trailer for Law and Order: UK. But that coincidence only reinforces the necessity of the question itself. The question: What is the enduring appeal of the Law and Order franchise? I think it’s an especially interesting question to ask because L&O … more…
watch it: the weekly address from President-elect Barack Obama
I feel like Fox Mulder every time I hear Obama speak: I want to believe. It doesn’t mean I do believe, just that I would like to be able to. Obama talks here about the sacrifice of our servicepeople and their families, and I want to believe that this isn’t just the same empty rhetoric … more…
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (review)
Spoiler free!
I can always tell…
…who the other geeky critics are at press screenings, cuz we’re the only ones who sit all the way through to the end of the credits to see if there’s a little easter eggs waiting for us there. Like at my X-Files screening this afternoon. I — and just a few other critics — sat … more…
daily list: the 5 films I’m most looking forward to…
…over the rest of the summer. And by that I mean till the end of August. I peeked ahead to September, since that is still technically part of summer, but the movies then are starting to feel like fall movies. So we’ll deal with those later. It’s a grim six weekends of new movies ahead … more…
my week at the movies: ‘X-Files,’ ‘Brideshead Revisited,’ ‘Hamlet 2’
Shhhh! It’s totally secret, the screening of — shhhhh! — The X-Files: I Want to Believe [opens wide July 25] I’ll attend this week. Fox is terrified of spoilers getting out, but I’ve heard this tidbit, and I’m not afraid to spoil it: Cancer Man is Luke’s father. And Rosebud is a jet-powered sled reverse-enigineered … more…
Bubba Ho-Tep movie review: groovy
Bruce Campbell makes me laugh just looking at him. Just thinking about him. But I never thought he’d almost make me cry. And I certainly never thought he’d almost make me cry in a movie called Bubba Ho-Tep.
Frailty (review)
It sends a shiver up my spine just thinking about the movie now, even as I gaze out the window onto a gorgeous, happy, sunshiny day. It’ll be great when this one finally comes out on DVD, cuz then I’ll be able to curl up on the couch in the middle of the night wrapped in an old afghan for protection and give myself the wild heebie-jeebies watching it.
