Category: Movies

  • KHAAANNNN!

    It’s obvious Harrison is just trying to throw everyone off by saying HE’S SPARTACUS. pro hunter rolex

  • NOW THAT’S MORE LIKE IT

    Neill Blomkamp’s cyberpunk political allegory Elysium is exactly the kind of movie I used to dream about in the middle of the night on-shift cutting granite in rural Georgia in 1986 as I looked up into the night sky in-between rock loads.

  • YOU FINALLY, *REALLY* DID IT

    I’ve been on the Internet a long time; seen a lot of strange stuff but I’ve never seen anything to make me believe there’s one all-powerful Force controlling everything. No; wait.

  • THE LAST RITES OF RANSOM PRIDE

    Good friends of mine know I love the Mendonoma Coast and subscribe to the paper of record up there called the Independent Coast Observer. There’s a little column, tucked in there with the “Mark Your Calendar” listings, called “Mr. Smee’s Video Picks.”

  • SUCKER PUNCH

    My old buddy at MTV, Kurt Loder, wrote this as his opening paragraph in his review of Sucker Punch: “If you had to explain Sucker Punch to someone—and I’d wish you luck in doing so—you might say it’s sort of like Charlie’s Angels, but with two more Angels added, as well as an infusion of Nazi zombies, airplane-eating dragons, various lumbering behemoths, and whole cities in flame. Which is to say, it’s not really like Charlie’s Angels at all. Or anything else I can think of offhand.”

  • LOOSE CANON

    The trailer for the new X-Men movie was released yesterday, and it actually looks quite good. This doesn’t tell any long-time readers of my stuff anything, though, because it is well-known that I am easily entertained. I know how hard it is to produce a good story in a collaborative medium, and I know well-intentioned creators don’t wake up in the morning, enthusiastically greeting the day so they can half-ass some story for you. So I try to find things to like in even obviously weak or failed entertainments, because somebody was working hard even if it all doesn’t come together at the end.

  • TWO GUYS SITTING AROUND EMAILING EACH OTHER ABOUT INCEPTION

    Faithful readers of the Lost-era Spectacularry will well remember EJ Feddes, he of the erudite mien and scapel-like deftness of pen. Having traded a bunch of emails with the lad, I felt confident enough after having seen Inception to send him a missive unto the ether and tell him he’d probably love it, too:

  • OUR HOUSE IS A VERY VERY FINE HOUSE

    It may come as no surprise to those who know me well that I am a big ol’ romantic sap. I will take hearts and flowers over broads and bullets any day, no matter how much I may personally enjoy the action and the adventure. Those who nod sagely at this “Dichotomy of Lar” may well remember the story I did in Proof of Concept called “Zombie Dinosaur.” Now, clearly, given my proclivities, a story with “zombie” and “dinosaur” in the title (and even right next to each other) puts an undeniable taste on the audience’s tongue. And, yes, because I deliver as promised, there were undead T-Rex’s rampaging about the landscape. But the main point of the story (to me at least) was the main scientist asking the main soldier about the wedding ring he took and put on a chain around his neck every time he made a drop.

  • SCARAMOUCH, SCARAMOUCH, WILL YOU DO THE FANDANGO

    So I went to get my driver’s license renewed and they said I’ve had my license suspended since 1995 in […]

  • TWO GUYS SITTING AROUND EMAILING EACH OTHER ABOUT AVATAR

    three words
    very expensive garbage
    “little big man” / “dances with wolves” in “jurassic park” meet luke, han and the death star on 9-11.
    derivative much?
    script writer had the easiest job in hollywood, write bathroom sounds for pages on end.