Last night I dreamed a buddy chase movie. If you don't know what a buddy chase movie is, think of Pineapple Express or similar such movies. There are two main characters on the run from a Big Bad who experience comedic hijinx along the way. I wish I could remember more of it. I probably should have tried to write it down as soon as I woke up, but ( Read more... )

I watched Tony Scott's Enemy of the State tonight for the first time since I first saw it in the theaters 11 years ago. I thought it was pretty mediocre at the time. It seemed paranoid and too far fetched to be even remotely possible. Now it almost seems prescient. Domestic spying wasn't even just possible, it occurred. Sure they didn't kill a ( Read more... )

What a pathetic summer for movies. The "blockbusters" have been so weak that I can't even remember them all, so quickly have they fallen from my memory. It started with Wolverine and has been a slide ever since, with only a few moderate exceptions ( Read more... )

I did three things worth noting today. I went and saw Traitor. I wrote a review of the movie for Netflix that I didn't copy and paste, so you'll have to read it there ( Read more... )

I'm not usually one to post poetry, especially not poetry I hear/see in a movie, but I found the below so moving that I felt compelled to post it (and cross-post it to my other journal).

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate ( Read more... )

The armies of Blackthorn march toward the city. It is foretold that they will infiltrate Dyvers through the sewers. Only members of the constabulary and the Dyvers Vermin & Pest Contractors may lawfully enter, but gelatinous cubes, wererats, a stone golem, and a lich all call the sewers home. Things are afoot-underfoot. A Dyvers regional adventure ( Read more... )