Most of you already know this, but I have another journal called Soylent_Screen. I used to have a regular movie review column on a now-defunct website, and now I have an embarrassingly infrequently updated movie review blog on LiveJournal. I review mostly sci-fi, horror, and fantasy stuff, and since I have no credentials, I'm really just trying to be funny more ( Read more... )

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Do you like cute robots? Do you like to contemplate our dark future as soulless pampered gelatinous hovering consumers? Well then you should see WALL-E! You've already seen it? Everyone has? Well then, you should read my review of it at Blood, Blade and Thruster!

If anyone has resisted friending soylent_screen  because of the lack of an alphabetical index of movies with links to the reviews, well here it is.  If it's because you hate my taste in movies (I love giant monster movies and low-budget time travel flicks) or are mad at me because of what I said about Cilian Murphy, well I don't blame you.

This time I've combined my interest in horror movies, my passion for urban nature, my avocation as a film critic, and my vocation as a pest control technician together in a review of Of Unknown Origin, a movie about a New York businessman driven crazy by a rat in his home.  Read it at Blood Blade and Thruster!


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Oh yes it is! And unlike last time, when I reviewed the fourth Indiana Jones movie, this is entirely different, since I reviewed the fourth Alien movie. I didn't say so in the review, but I was most excited that it was directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, and included Ron Perlman, from Jeunet's "City of Lost Children" and Dominique Pinon from Jeunet's ( Read more... )

Head on over to Blood Blade and Thruster to read my review of the latest Indiana Jones movie.  I think it's one of my funnier reviews, mostly because it's so offensive.  Also, it's full of spoilers.

For brilliant and needlessly erudite dissections and ruminations about undeserving morsels of pop culture, you can't do better than The Current Cinema, Anthony Lane's film criticism column in The New Yorker.  (My friend g_weir  accomplishes a similar feat, but hasn't been given a New Yorker position yet.)

Lane's column typically involves the criticism ( Read more... )

Hey I've got a new Soylent Screen column up, just in time for the triumphant return of Blood Blade and Thruster, where SoyScr made its debut oh so many months ago.  It occurs to me that there are more reasons for you guys to want to see this website of Speculative Fiction and Satire, beyond my snotty movie reviews.

For one thing, they have fiction ( Read more... )

Mike Judge, creator of Beavis and Butthead, reexamines American stupidity in the eerily plausible dystopia comedy Idiocracy.