Utterly and relentlessly grim. Don't go see it.

I've been catching up on some TV shows lately. Here are my opinions of them, in no particular order:

Marvel's Luke Cage, Season 1 (Netflix): Rating: ✭✭✭✭✩ - There's a lot of opinion about this show being slung back and forth on the internet right now, and I don't want to add to any of the ill-feeling going around. I'll just say that I loved this ( Read more... )

Last night, I watched the movie Melancholia starring Kirsten Dunst, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kiefer Sutherland. I cannot in any good conscience recommend it to anyone. Not that it was completely horrible, but the cons so heavily outweigh the pros that it just isn't worth it.

The pros:

• The main character, Justine (played by Kirsten Dunst), is ( Read more... )

Saw a couple of movies recently that I thought were worth mentioning:

Star Trek Beyond: Easily the best of the series so far. Don't get me wrong: I like the 2009 Star Trek*-it has its flaws, but overall it is a good, fun movie. Beyond, however, is where the series has hit its stride. It is the closest in feel, in character, in story, and in theme ( Read more... )

Went and saw X-Men: Apocalypse last night with my sweetie. With its RT rating of 48%, I wasn't expecting much. However, I'm pleased to say that it exceeded my expectations, and I enjoyed it ( Read more... )

Yes, the movie. I watched it last night. Quite surprisingly, not only was it not awful, it was actually really fun ( Read more... )

I finally watched The Crow today.

Geebus criminey, what a terrible film!

Scott Kurtz, the author and artist of PVP, recently posted two movie reviews on the PVP-online blog. The first was for X-Men: Days of Future Past, and the second was for Godzilla.

He hated the first, and loved the second. Exactly the opposite of my own reactions.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is really good storytelling about characters that we care ( Read more... )

Go see it! Seriously, go! Now! Put down whatever you're doing and go buy a ticket! Because this movie is made of 100% pure, grade A, hammered awesome.

A while back, I subscribed to Lifehacker's Google+ feed. For a while, I wasn't really paying much attention, but the other day something caught my eye . . . and now I'm finding new gems every day. Not huge life-changing revelations, but little things that seem like they'd be useful to know.

For instance, an article today entitled "How Turning My ( Read more... )