Oooh, it's so pretty, I might hurt myself.

Review of the movie Thr3e

We have a winner, people. It's been a while since a movie has been this bad. How bad?

0%-on-Rotten-Tomatoes bad (splats here). An honor shared in the past 6 years by only five other movies as far as I can tell:

Crossover (2006) - 59 votes
Benigni's Pinocchio (2002) - 53 votes ( Read more... )

I can't sleep.

Apparently, I'm all atwitter waiting for Santa to arrive. Tis the season, I suppose, what with all the goings-on.

F'rinstance: CMas horror movie trailers like this one. It's for the remake of 'Black Christmas' --the 1974 CMas slasher classic starring Margot Kidder, John Saxon and Olivia Hussey. Doubt its classic status? Let me ( Read more... )

My middle school years were not a happy time for reading books. In Connecticut, they really liked giving us stuff that made us think about death. A lot of death. Also child abuse, but mostly death. Let's do a quick survey:

1) They Cage The Animals At Night by Jennings Michael Burch. There doesn't seem to be a wikipedia page on it, but here's a ( Read more... )

I saw the Prestige on Friday ( Read more... )

I watched the entire 5th season of Buffy this weekend. I feel like I'm back visiting Atlanta in 2002, when I watched the first 3 seasons of Buffy in less than a week, simply because I was there and my friends had to go to work ( Read more... )

This was taken at a movie theater in Iowa:


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'Snakes on a Plane'. Yes, it rules.
What I want to talk about, though, is another movie, this one from 1975:
Murder on Flight 502.


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Ben may have understood the allure of "Snakes on a Plane" before I did, he may have created this amazing movie-theater prop:


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The Chocolate Factory is under new management ( Read more... )

Who Wants To Be A Superhero?, the new reality show hosted by Stan Lee, premiered last night. Eleven people designed their own heroes, dressed up as them, and are staying together under grueling reality-programming conditions, being eliminated one by one. The last hero standing will get their own comic book and will play their hero in a Sci-Fi ( Read more... )