Cloverfield is like a good zombie movie: it's not really about what you think it's about. I mean, yes, it is about a monster destroying New York City. But it's really about a guy finally understanding what really matters to him. It's a shame it takes a giant whatever smashing all sorts of landmarks to get him to that point, but us guys can be ( Read more... )

so, i watched ghostrider last night. i want those two hours back, or to somehow splice footage from that with the old pbs show Ghost Writer into some crazy fever-dreamed mash-up with the spirit of vengeance meeting some dead guy who wanted to protect "the children" and uses text stolen from the surrounding area to create clues. the movie was just ( Read more... )

My plan to save spider-man 4 ( Read more... )

    The film Death of a President is absolutely fascinating, but for reasons completely different that what i was expecting. It's a future-history about the assassination of President Bush, composed out of what looks like stock footage, a few staged scenes, interviews, and fake news reports. . . oh, and real speeches from members of the ( Read more... )

I'm about to get really nerdy. Be warned.

So I finally saw TMNT today, and I absolutely loved it. Walking out of the theater (while at target, and on the way home), I kept exclaiming to Aubrie how fantastic the movie was, and it's only after thinking about it for hours while I threw boxes that I figured out why. The Ninja Turtles have always been ( Read more... )