Even my hardcore meme-avoidance can’t stop me from ranking the Coen Brothers’ films. There’s one movie missing off the list below, and it’s Intolerable Cruelty. It’s the only Coen film I haven’t seen. Considering people’s opinions on it, I doubt … Continue reading
I’ve never had much of a cause to purposely drop websites off my reading list. Back before I started pulling everything into Google Reader, I either kept reading or drifted away naturally, one day realizing something had fallen so far … Continue reading
Ian Tregillis’ debut novel Bitter Seeds was not what I hoped it would be. It has a cool idea, and the praise from George R. R. Martin made me hopeful that this would be my kind of SF yarn. Unfortunately, … Continue reading
I didn’t do an update post or May because I thought I hadn’t seen enough to make it worth it, and decided I’d just wrap it into the next months’ post. Looking back, I saw 3 Education films, which is … Continue reading
I wonder how many books will be written on the failure of network television. Endless missteps combined with rapid changes in the technology of media have left it a hollow shell of itself. The analysis will be nearly as endless, … Continue reading
Look, let’s just get it out there. I like Lady Gaga. She’s good pop. Good pop is hard to find. Clear? Cool. That said, Telephone is a really horrible video. I don’t have a problem, in theory, with a 10 … Continue reading
Bullitt You’ve probably heard of this film because of its classic car chase and little else. That’s because the car chase is literally the only reason to see this movie. It’s a brilliant scene wrapped in an utterly pedestrian police … Continue reading
A hit or miss month for my movie education. Let’s dive in. Drums Along the Mohawk Once again, I take a run at a John Ford film and bounce right off. When I heard the description of this film – … Continue reading
Digging through the library’s graphic novel shelves, I came across two well regarded Batman stories I’d never gotten around to reading: The Killing Joke and The Long Halloween, both of which were cited as inspirations to the film The Dark … Continue reading
Minority opinion time. Mulan is a really good movie. You know, the Disney one set in China about the girl who pretends to be a boy to keep her disabled father from having to be killed or dishonored when he … Continue reading