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And on we go. So here we are, at last. Honestly, the (latent? dormant? something) Trekkie in me – the one who, like umpteen million others, found Trek when he was a disenfranchised, too-cerebral adolescent – never thought the Powers…
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The Vivarium of Dr. Tesseract
Dr. Tesseract enters the vivarium. We could imagine that he is Daniel Cockburn, had Daniel never given up cocaine (nor never not started it in the first place), and after 15 further years of apathetic days and earthshaking night terrors.…
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Review: THE DARK KNIGHT
You wanna play a game? Let’s say you had an idea. A kind of “intellectual project,” if you will: you saw a problem, and thought you could design a solution. The problem was a city run rampant with organized crime,…
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Review: INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
“I don’t think he plans that far ahead.”
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Review: THE GOLDEN COMPASS
One ring to rule them compass I feel sorry for The Golden Compass. Of all the fant-lit-to-film gimmes in the half-decade since The Lord of the Rings, Compass is the one which most painfully wants to wear Daddy’s clothes. Its every nook and cranny is…
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Matt’s first tat
OH MY GOD I LOVE HER SO MUCH. OH MY FUCKING GOD I AM SO HAPPY. See? I toldja. 🙂 I am in love. That’s all there is to it. I am in love with my own arm. In my humble…
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Review: LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
Re-posting this review from 2007, one of my favourites. Somehow, I never mentioned Timothy Olymphant once by name; but, the rest of the piece, I really like.
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Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD’S END
Arrrrrrrh Wars “Are there pirates? Is the Pope Polish? You bet your sweet ass there are pirates. There are pirates overflowing every single frame of this movie. There are good pirates, bad pirates, friendly pirates, sexy pirates, sleazy pirates, clever…
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STANDOFF (2006)
Two men meet in a field for a fight to the death… using stands.
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Review: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN’S CHEST
Prevent Movie Piracy Be careful what you wish for, the wise man said, and just because we all spent the summer of 2003 hoping that they would do something — anything! — to further the adventures of one Captain Jack…
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