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Tag Archives: Movies
I probably hate this, so let me tell you what I think of it!
Here’s the kind of review of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that’s driving me crazy. I’ve seen a bunch of these over the last few days, all striking the same kind of tone, but this one takes the cake. … Continue reading
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“These deadly rays will be YOUR death!”
A while back I posted about an old SF B-movie I saw when I was a kid, Battle Beyond the Stars. I saw Battle in this old, somewhat beat-up theater in Hillsboro, OR that often showed double features – which … Continue reading
A moment of arse-kicking awesomeness
Sorry for the blog silence the last couple of days, folks. For those still out there, here’s Mr. Russell to brighten your day.
Holy SHIT.
Sorry I couldn’t come up with a more eloquent title for this post, but…well, sometimes you gotta go with the words that hit you. Therefore: Let there be dancing in the streets! Yup, I won a copy of Doug Adams’s … Continue reading
“The pointy end goes in the other man.”
Screenwriting great William Goldman has opined in the past that the hardest films to get right are comedies and adventure films. An adventure film that gets things right is one of the finest things in life, I’ve always believed. One … Continue reading
Lovin’ the Lantern
I just saw this article about the Green Lantern movie that is currently in production. It’s sounding like a pretty nifty production: See, here’s the the thing – I can’t tell you how Green Lantern will be as a movie, … Continue reading
Help me, Readers!
An old friend of mine e-mailed me thusly: Hey, I was wondering if you would know which older movie featured a battle scene wherein the protagonist and antagonist morphed into various creatures…but since it was well before morph technology, the … Continue reading
“He’s the darkness, reaching out for the darkness.”
Oliver Stone’s Nixon is an amazing film. I kind of wish Stone was still making movies like this: densely packed films that overwhelm the audiences with information and tell their tales in complex, non-linear ways. Well, maybe Stone still is … Continue reading
It’s all a bunch of gorram felgercarb!
Today at work, we were talking movies and whatnot as we often do, and we happened on the topic of teevee edits of movies — specifically, the editing of swear words. My friend and I share a favorite one, from … Continue reading
“We’re always fascinated when we find leg irons with no legs in ’em.”
Be it resolved: The Fugitive is a perfect movie. This may seem a strong claim, and maybe it is. But I’m not talking about “perfect” in the normal sense of “perfect”, to indicate that The Fugitive has no flaws at … Continue reading