You know, if I'd known it might somehow contribute to my being able to predict the end of the world, I would have tried harder to learn how to do sudoku.

Ok, Nicolas Cage's latest film Knowing isn't based on quite that stupid a premise. But dear god, is it close. It's one of those rare occasions when I feel stupider exiting a movie than I was ( Read more... )

There were Encyclopedia Brown mysteries Peanuts comic collections. Later maybe Judy Blume's Superfudge or some of Madeline L'Engel's Wrinkle in Time series. Pretty much anything that held my interest and I could get my hands on in the school library I took with me. At least once or twice a week, from 2nd to 4th grade, if I was done early with my ( Read more... )

I think one measure of a great film is when it can still arouse emotions in you, even when you know what's coming.

When the cellar scene at the end of Silence of the Lambs starts, the moment the lights go out, I feel tension in the pit of my stomach. I know how the scene plays out, who lives and who dies. I've seen the movie maybe 30-40 times. It ( Read more... )

Will have to update tomorrow. Zodiac is a hell of a lot longer than I knew. Good so far though.

Yes, I'm still here. Obviously, I'm going to hell, since I've not fulfilled either of my Lenten obligations well these past two weeks.

It's a quarter end week, so all work wants to do is eat my brains. But it's not unreasonable. I mean, no one's gonna eat my eyes. For my Facebook peeps, yes, I'm aware that's a redux from a status update earlier ( Read more... )

Sometimes you just can't see a movie until you're ready.

I was thirteen years old when Kiss of the Spider Woman was first released. Back then I had no concept of what it meant to be gay, beyond it being a long running joke on the TV show "Three's Company", which I watched a lot when it was on. That's a fact I'm not particularly proud of today. I ( Read more... )

Cheating a little bit today and instead writing about a book. A book about poker, no less, which means I've lost about 90% of my readership, but it's an interesting read if you play and want to learn more. Plus it's my blog, so bleah!

If you're a poker player or aspire to be one, then you're well aware of, or have your own copy of Super System, ( Read more... )

When describing the Rock Band/Guitar Hero phenomenon to people unfamiliar with it, I tell them the two games are the bastard grandchildren of Simon. Along that same vein, the film Quarantine, like Cloverfield before it, is the bastard grandchild of The Blair Witch Project. Unlike Cloverfield or Blair Witch, I actually liked this SOB.

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So you noticed no posts over the weekend.

The short answer was I hit the wall. The longer form answer is that I'm finding it increasingly challenging to write, and watch a movie a day, AND have a life all at once. Especially when I can't always incorporate the three needs simultaneously.

I don't feel necessarily like I've failed keeping Lent, as I ( Read more... )

I'll leave it to the amateur shrinks reading to analyze this: any woman in a film who could seriously kick my ass I immediately find dead sexy. Uma Thurman in Adventures of Baron Munchausen or Dangerous Liaisons? Beautiful, but not for me. Uma Thurman in Kill Bill? Be still my beating heart. Michelle Yeoh or Zhang Ziyi? Would have me wrapped ( Read more... )