Posts Tagged ‘movies’

I stumbled into a showing of Violent Saturday on TCM last night, a bank heist flick starring Victor Mature, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine, and quickly got sucked in.
There’s not a lot of action until you get to the actual robbery, but it does a great job of setting up tension by introducing relationships between [...]

It’s been nine years since Metallica launched their crusade against Napster. Since then we’ve also seen the MPAA and RIAA shit their respective beds, Sony’s assault on consumers, the DeCSS controversy, and the rise and fall of DRM.
Through that time, I’ve been wondering when the same behavior would hit the publishing industry. The Google Book [...]

I ran into a few items today I thought were worth mentioning, but really didn’t merit a longer, dedicated blog post. So I’m just going to pile them up here.
After reading that the great state of Kentucky is officially relying upon God for their state security, I learned that the group American Atheists is suing [...]

The Wife handed me a nice, big chunk of my ass again today.
Yes, again. I have a bad habit of forgetting what the rugrats should and shouldn’t be watching, and I have yet to live down a two-week streak of nightmares the Midget had when he was two. Nightmares caused by a viewing of the [...]

Spring Break is officially over. I work in education so I got the week off, but it went by so fast it felt like just another weekend. It was one of those weeks I was constantly on the move, out running around for one reason or another or working on things at home. Today we [...]

Between flu, pneumonia, and now some kind of killer, sinus-assaulting virus, this winter has just plain sucked for me. It all started with a fever on Saturday, progressed to sinus headaches, and now is a combination of both, complete with the occasional fat blob of ugly, brown-green snot streaked with red. This has given me [...]

The last several times I’ve gone to the theater have been miserable experiences, and Friday night was no exception.
It’s those times it would be really nice to have the Scanners head-exploding powers.

Take the two trendy teen couples who sat down behind me. They tripped over one another getting to their seats, one of the guys [...]

Last night I finally got around to watching Shoot ‘Em Up, and I invited the wife to do the same.
“Hey hon,” I said. “Come watch Shoot ‘Em Up.”
“Which movie?” she asked. Like many people, I’ll refer to a high-octane action flick as a shoot-’em-up.
“Shoot ‘Em Up,” I told her.
“Right, but which movie?”
You can easily see [...]

If I had known the entire movie was going to be shot through a hand-held camera like Blair Witch Project, I might have held off on seeing Cloverfield until it hit cable rather than plunking down nine bucks at the theater.
The plot is simple: five twenty-something New Yorkers are trying to rescue a friend in [...]

I was a little skeptical of Christopher Nolan’s choice to cast Heath Ledger as the Joker in the next Batman flick. To me, it felt more like studio pressure than real casting.
Then I watched the new Dark Knight trailer, and it removed all doubt. I guess I should have known to trust Nolan better after [...]