fans: THIS IS NOT STAR TREK!

As a qualified warp engineer, it’s my understanding that dilithium only comes into play above warp 4. At lower warp speeds you can achieve a M/AM reaction very inefficiently with a big ass engine without dilithium, but you need the crystals if you want to go faster than that (and to have engines smaller than a city).

Do you like Belinda Carlisle? I’ve been a big The Go-Go’s fan ever since the release of their 1982 album, Vacation. Before that, I really didn’t understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Vacation where Belinda Carlisle’s presence became more apparent. I think Talk Show was the group’s…

Imagine a train wreck, but instead of grinding to a halt after plowing through an elementary school, the train wreck starts moving again, crashes through an old folks’ home, causes another train to derail, and then somehow votes for Trump.

Let’s take a closer look:

It’s because he’s a Canadian taking American jobs, but nobody is willing to just say it like it because of liberal fascism and also political correctness too, and in this 6-part essay I will

L.A. Confidential is an absolute God-damned MASTERPIECE. It MADE Guy Pearce as an actor; Russell Crowe acted his ASS off in that movie; for all his so-called issues later, Spacey was brilliant; James Cromwell, Kim Basinger, David Strathairn... all Oscar-worthy performances.

“And I’m one of those people who even liked Fifth Element and Face/Off”

The axe scene Tom cites above is truly the core of what makes the movie work. The whole sequence is brilliant, as Rose goes from one man to another asking for help to rescue Jack, and having to assert herself more and more as each one of them insists on just telling her what to do rather than listening to her. When…

I live with three daughters, a wife, and a Yorkshire Terrier (also female). We and more often, they, have watched Titanic many, many, times.

Danny Nucci was one of the SEALs in The Rock from 1996. Seeing him in this a year later with that ridiculous “that’s a spicy-a meatball!” accent was pretty distracting.

LA Confidential is in my top five all-time favorites.  An absolutely perfect film.

I know I just wrote a long self indulgent post below, but if you will indulge me one more I want to say why I have always liked Good Will Hunting. The story of how me and my wife fell in love is kind of similar to the “Have to go see about a girl” story Robin Williams tells in the movie.

L.A. Confidential was the movie to beat in my eyes. Just absolutely phenomenal. Then Titanic came along, and it sure was long and loud and a lot of guys fall into propellers, but there wasn’t a single scene that resonated to me quite like Bud White snapping a chair during an interrogation, or Exley facing off against…

Jack’s two friends - or as my wife refers to them: Muscles Marinara and Irish McIrishkins - are barely characters and rather a collection of grating accents and cultural stereotypes.

I don’t recall any ‘mass catharsis’, maybe I missed out. I found the film to be rather stilted and hokey, and the scene with Billy Zane wielding a pistol while the Titanic sank was just plain dumb. I recall someone described the film as ‘Privileged teenage girl bones a hobo and considers herself ‘woke’.

Oh, that’s easy. Pizza, Lamps, Jackie Chan-DAMMIT.

We’ve always been a subtitles country for everything except cartoons.

Before I saw this movie in the theater I read a review that described it as “War of the Worlds” as directed by Irwin Allen.

It set my expectation-meter PERFECTLY.

The fact that one person from that cast turned out to be a charismatic supernova almost seems like a happy accident. Emmerich hasn’t directed another movie-star performance like that one since.