I have not seen "American Sniper." I understand that Bradley Cooper is very good in it, and Clint Eastwood directs it superbly. Because I have not seen it, I cannot speak to any messages or themes in the movie, whether hidden or overt ( Read more... )

Watched "Escape From Tomorrow" on NetFlix.

The premise: Frustrated, middle-aged dad Jim White loses his job on the last day of a family vacation at Disneyworld. Over the course of the day, he loses his mind and his marriage falls apart.

The gimmick: The film was shot on location at Walt Disney World and Disneyland, without the permission of the ( Read more... )

I've recently seen a few movies. Three, actually. That's it. Three. Usually, I'm a movie glutton, but this (school) year I haven't been able to make it out to the cineplex much since the summer ended. Still, though, I managed to see three remarkable indie films that I would recommend to anyone.

The first is... ♪♫Na na na na na na na na Birdman!( ( Read more... )

I wanted to blog about a couple of movies. If I were to blog about one in particular, though (It's "Birdman"), I would necessarily need to go on a digression to explain a thing. Or maybe I wouldn't need to, but I would feel remiss if I did not fully explain a piece of pop culture that I remember from my childhood and early adulthood. In this ( Read more... )

The documentary "I Am" is one that caught my interest when it was playing at the Bijou. I did not get the chance to see it until tonight, when I Netflixed it. (That's a verb now, right?)

The description: Director Tom Shadyac speaks with intellectual and spiritual leaders about what's wrong with our world and how we can improve both it and the way ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm too lazy to put together a GOOD posting, so I'll just paste some things that I saw on Geekosystem today.

What if "Return of the Jedi" was directed by David Lynch, as originally proposed?

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What if "Star Wars" was a Quinten Tarentino film?
(It's more or less the same, but with a different soundtrack.)

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Not to harp on what I previously covered, but it seems that Blerta views the world of Hannah Horvath and friends pretty much the same way I did.

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And while we are on this topic (for the last time, one would presume), it turns out that the guy who plays wierdo boyfriend on the show will be the villain in Disney-Lucasfilm's new Star Wars sequel. No ( Read more... )

So, now's about the time when I have a bunch of random snippets of stuff to publish here on the interwebs, none of which I can really stretch out to the size of a full blog posting. So, have some fun-sized mini-blogs that I have pressed into a Frankenstein's monster of a post.

Abbott v. Davis, RE: educationIn the run up to the 2014 Texas ( Read more... )

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I love food. Food is fantastic. It's the best thing since sliced bread. But just like sliced bread, it can kill you. (You could, probably, like... choke... or something.) Also, like sliced bread, it can save your life. (It stops you from starving ( Read more... )