The Day the Earth Stood Still. An exciting title for a movie created a half-century ago about our penchant for violence and a sinister love affair with Miley Cyrus headlines [wait, what?]… Moral of the story: Let’s all be good or the interstellar space consortium won’t let us in to the club. Enter Keanu Reeves. [...]
Continue Reading...If you haven’t noticed by now, I take my jolly time getting around to seeing movies. This year I’ve actually visited the movie theater more than once! Imagine that. Anyways, yes, I finally got around to seeing Iron Man and decided I’d share some of my thoughts on the film. First off, I’ll admit it… [...]
Continue Reading...I struggled with the title of this post … It was a tossup between the shortened version of the official movie title (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), “George Lucas has lost his mind”, or “Indiana Jones has jumped the shark“. Truthfully, Indy 4 was a let down, on several levels. I [...]
Continue Reading...The short and sweet? This is a bad movie. It’s one of those movies where you really have to wonder – how did it make it past the pitch? let alone actually get cast, produced, edited, distributed, and finally make it in front of me? Aren’t there rooms full of smart people in Hollywood getting [...]
Continue Reading...I’ll admit this much – I’ve never read a Harry Potter book in my life. I cringe at the thought. I watched the first movie (sans book) and thought it was pretty dull. But part of me really appreciates what that series of books has done – by turning on a lot of kids to [...]
Continue Reading...So to continue my updates on upcoming summer movies – (a) no I haven’t seen Iron Man yet, and (b) I’m really looking forward to the new X-Files sequel. Turns out since I last blogged on it Fox has gone ahead and updated the X-Files Website, featuring a standard-issue trailer. Lots of strung-together quotes, flashy [...]
Continue Reading...There’s good science fiction and bad science fiction. But there’s also popcorn munching shoot ‘em ups that were born more from a video game concept than an actual storyline. Guess which column AVP: Requiem (Aliens Versus Predator 2) falls under. Yep – movie derived from the stuff that makes video games so fun to play. [...]
Continue Reading...Well, last year I put together a preview of summer movies, so I figured I’d do the same thing again this year and highlight some of the soon-to-be-blockbusters for the Summer 2008 movie season. Soon to be released Iron Man – Had enough movies derived from your favorite comic books? Apparently Hollywood doesn’t think so, [...]
Continue Reading...It’s news to me – there’s an X-Files movie sequel on its way – and it’s close to being delivered! There’s no trailer, no plot synopsis – this one is being held pretty tightly under wraps. Check out the X Files 2 IMDB page for some more details. At least they got David Duchovny and [...]
Continue Reading...I’m writing this post to tell you about the posts I’m going to post. Get it? Anyways, I’ve enjoyed a great couple of weeks of SciFi-ness, and I’ve got plenty of things on the horizon. I can tell you I’ve just broken in to the world of Phillip K. Dick, and I’m amazed. I was [...]
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