When I first read about the organizing of a boycott against the film, my first thought was, "Of course I'm going to see the movie. If the reviews are solid, it might actually be interesting to see if or how Card's beliefs may materialize in the adaptation. (Not necessarily his gay marriage views, but his…

Who plays the Coen brothers during the 40 minute segment covering the filming of Hudsucker Proxy?!

With my wife out the country, it is time to resume playing video games at full volume. I played Bioshock Infinite for a while shortly after it came out, but I knew it would require special attention to the story. So I'm re-playing it and, of course, it's a different game. Almost finished. It's just great.
 
Also, I…

Wasn't Joe Dante's Runaway Daughters and Robert Rodriguez' Roadracers part of that cycle of remakes? I really liked both of those…

Wait…this site does similar shit to what Rabin's bitching about all the time. My god, if some pop culture artifact is geared towards a female audience most contributors' critical faculties shut down immediately.

I think the comedy collected in the Shout! Factory boxed sets is some of the greatest ever. But as I pored over them, screaming with laughter, I couldn't help but notice how dated the references are. It strikes me that some of my favorites, Richard Harris' MacArthur Park on Mel's Rockpile, Look Back in a Bloody Rage,…

Yay for doing nothing! Cooped up in my back room all weekend playing video games and watching movies.

Doen anyone remember the old, one-shot TV special What's Alan Watching? I just had a little string of epiphonies that led me to that title. The show was about a kid, about to leave for school in Madison WI and how his wacky home life is mirrored in the TV parodies that constantly intrude on the narrative. The girl he…

That's some terrible criticism there, my friend.

I see there are some reasonable, if too polite, criticisms of Beasts of the Southern Wild which is interesting. But I didn't come here to be polite. I don't understand how a critic (the one above) can watch the film and come up with the adjective "daring." Beasts of the Southern Wild is a straight up, neo-liberal,…

I forgot…We watched Hitchcock, too. It's really watchable because of the subject matter, but it's monumentally dumb.

My most significant accomplishment of the weekend was finishing FarCry 3. I loved it, although my impression may be colored by how disappointed I was by the last few games I played and the games of 2012 in general. I'm now playing Bioshock 2 to prepare for Infinite. I know the game I'm playing was farmed out to a…

Movie heavy weekend for me and I couldn't be happier about that. Drove up to Chicago to pick up my wife. We have a shared passion for lurid melodrama so we went to see The Paperboy at the Siskel Center. We were both blown away. I don't want to get too involved with the reviews, particularly those posted here, but I…

You wouldn't say that if you saw the movie.

You wouldn't say that if you saw the movie.

Thank you, Barney B. I didn't find it painful. And as an argument for the continued expressiveness of celluloid, I think it's pretty great. But beyond that, I didn't take away anything particularly insightful about post-war America or how it led to our contemporary cult of celebrity. My wife and I will still bring it…

Thank you, Barney B. I didn't find it painful. And as an argument for the continued expressiveness of celluloid, I think it's pretty great. But beyond that, I didn't take away anything particularly insightful about post-war America or how it led to our contemporary cult of celebrity. My wife and I will still bring it…

I saw The Hobbit in HFR 3D. I think the effect is interesting. I definitely find the argument that it's "ugly" way over-stated. It's jarring, sure. But its aethetic purpose is to enhance movement in the 3D frame so the priorities of the cinematography are very different. And though I won't call it ugly, but I won't…

I saw The Hobbit in HFR 3D. I think the effect is interesting. I definitely find the argument that it's "ugly" way over-stated. It's jarring, sure. But its aethetic purpose is to enhance movement in the 3D frame so the priorities of the cinematography are very different. And though I won't call it ugly, but I won't…

This weekend we stayed close to home. The coming weeks are going to bring about much holiday travel (that is if you count a trip to Chicago to see The Hobbit @ 48 FPS), so we were more-or-less couch-bound, in the best possible way.