Steven Spielberg took the stage at the San Diego Comic-Con the other day, for the first time ever, and delivered the soul-crushing news that a new "Jurassic Park" movie is in the works. Because the world really needs another installment in the fascinating series of movies about dinosaurs running around stomping on shit.


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in which I spout factually incorrect nonsense about movies and prove how obsessed with "The Room" I really am.

Don't laugh at me. I've been watching the Batman movies in chronological order. I said don't laugh at me ( Read more... )

Six years, man.

My LJ turned six years old last week. I think six years of doing something-- anything, even something as ridiculously self-aggrandizing as the bitch&wine blogging I'm known for-- with some regularity is worth at least mentioning. Maybe it's because I recognize one of my biggest weaknesses is my penchant for abandoning projects ( Read more... )

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I've been pretty much obsessed with Tommy Wiseau's brilliantly incompetent The Room for the last six months or so. I put together this video of my favorite bits. Watch it. You won't be sorry you did.

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The last couple of weeks have been wonderful. The BAFICI was everything I could ever hope for and more. Over the span of ten days I saw 22 movies of varying degrees of quality. From fiercely independent mumblecore features to bigger, lushly animated productions to absurd experiments. It was all an adventure because, although they provide a little ( Read more... )

It's become a ridiculous struggle to get me out of bed every morning. I'm not entirely sure if it's just because I'm simply going to bed later or if there's an underlying problem with my drive, my lust for life, my joie de vivre, if you will. But it seems like every time I wake up the feeling that washes over me is that of suddenly finding myself ( Read more... )

Well, "Alice in Wonderland" couldn't even live up to my considerably lowered expectations. The fact that it failed to even deliver 90 minutes of entertainment says a lot about the type of filmmaker Tim Burton is these days. It was a lazy script with horrible dialogue, a ridiculous plot that seemed more like a halfhearted attempt to imitate the " ( Read more... )

Seeing "Alice in Wonderland" tonight with Flor. The last Tim Burton movie I really remember looking forward to was "Big Fish", also perhaps his last great movie. The Argentinean fascination for Tim Burton films has been a pet peeve of mine since I came to live here, but I understand the appeal. I've found I'm mostly annoyed by directors I perceive ( Read more... )