First off....THIS is funny.

http://www.comicvsaudience.net/images/flow_heavymetal.jpg

That said:
I've actually seen some movies recently. Capsule reviews: "WALL-E" is one of the best movies I've ever seen, "Kung Fu Panda" was hilarious...

And then there's Mirrormask.

I wanted to love Mirrormask. I expected to love Mirrormask -- script by Neil Gaiman, ( Read more... )

From joshuwain:

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies
2. Go to IMDB and find a quote from each movie
3. Post them for everyone to guess
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed
5. No googling/using IMDB search functions

April 8 -- Filled in the ones no one got.

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1) "Detroit, 1982. World Styling Finals. We're running around shouting, "Foul," while ( Read more... )

I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing this existed, yet, knowing it is there, I am both strangely comforted and vaguely nauseated.

It's stuff like this that makes this Midwestern-boy-turned-faux-Texan convinced that California is truly chimerical. Fictional. Does not compute.

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So. Continuing my education, I watched Psycho last night. And at the risk of sounding like a movie heretic...

...what exactly is the reason it's considered so great?

It's SLOW. It has horrid pacing. About half the performances are wooden (especially Martin Balsam and Simon Oakland -- Oakland's monologue at the end is particularly awful). The ( Read more... )

Since The Daughter is at the Texan Grandparents' this week, I have had some time to kill in the afternoon. Today, I finally watched Rashomon, which I'd had on the DVR for some time ( Read more... )

Oh my god. (Or should I say Oy Gevult?)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1POv9TaA-OU

Just...go there.

"Shaun Of The Dead" rocks. That said ( Read more... )

Went and saw _Corpse Bride_ tonight ( Read more... )