I am catching up with Battlestar Galactica. I never watched the reboot for a simple reason. I’m no sexist, but Katee Sackhoff is no Dirk Benedict. Just. Saying.
Don’t get me started on Boomer.
Thing is, the Internet and everyone I know who likes science fiction was right. The show is really good. There is a worrying [...]
Over the weekend I watched a flawed action movie featuring the following characteristics: gun kata, pre-Batman post-American Psycho Christian Bale, mawkish sentimentality, grisly murder of multiple fascist policemen in motorcycle helmets, mass drug use, blatant cribbing of Orwell’s 1984, that guy from Ally McBeal who walked around in his underwear a lot, and Sean Bean.
I [...]
It’s my birthday!
Seems like as good a day as any to revive this dormant blog. Again.
Thing is, over the last few weeks, I keep getting ideas for blogs, but I dismiss it because I wanted the first one after the resurrection to be good. I needed a good curtain raiser. Realistically though, this thing would [...]
SXSW happened last week. It was cool. I decided to instigate my new “whatever I’m doing is awesome and fun” policy, and everything I did was awesome. And fun.
I didn’t really see a lot of “hot”, “fresh” or otherwise oddly food-related adjective wielding music bands. Though I did see the Local Natives.
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Despite coming from Los [...]
The hipsters are coming.
It’s the eve of SXSW. The real SXSW. Forget your movies. They attract hipsters, sure, but it’s just a prelude. Forget the interactive types. Sure, they have some hipster hangers-on, in one of the weirder developments in the continuing revenge of the nerds, but the actual SXSWi types know their stuff. [...]
It’s always a little weird writing reviews on my personal blog, because I’m well aware of significantly more talented (link to Meredith) people out there who talk about exactly the kind of movies I like to watch. But here goes anyway.
Innerspace is a really, really cool movie. I don’t mean it’s cool because I like [...]
Ahh, the joy of watching an unintentionally bad movie. I’ve never been that big into it. I’m just bored by supposed bad movie classics like Plan 9 from Outer Space, and I’m a little put off by people who broadcast how much they like being “ironic.” Whatever that means. Hipsters watching soccer, I think.
I like [...]
I really hated Terminator: Salvation. There. That’s out of the way.
It was awful for many, many reasons, chief among them McG’s utter lack of talent and/or respect for the first three movies. Yes, yes, the third movie wasn’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it made an effort and fit into the overall [...]
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I took an extended break from blogging for a while. It started out as a break for Christmas, then I was busy, then I ran out of excuses and went on hiatus. Finally, as I sat down today to write anew, it dawned on me that a hiatus is [...]
Hello Internet!! I’ve been offline so much since I flew home for the holidays it seems like I barely know you anymore!
I’ll be back. Until then, Happy Christmas to all. Have a happy New Year while you’re at it; 2010 will hopefully be a good one for all of us.
I’ve emerged from the non-Internet [...]