Subtle Bluntness

Here’s some things I’ve done lately:
Rest.
Go through a mini-quarter-life crisis/turn 29.
Think up 10 possible new faces for The Expendables 2.
See Dinner For Schmucks.
See The Sorceror’s Apprentice.
Correspond quite a bit with the more-successful, less-bearded version of me.  (It’s very strange to meet your Google shield.)
Spend most of the summer working with a Mac computer.  Realize that [...]

Well, Twilight is back and so am I, having forced myself to head to the theaters and disembowel one of the most successful movie franchises of all time yet again.  Sometimes, hate can be fun, and there’s little hate more fun than Twilight-based hate.  Thanks to the cliched characters, terrible (and predictable) dialogue, and of [...]

We’re deep in the heart of the busiest season of my Den of Geek year:  summer blockbuster time!  It’s like sloe gin time, but without the associated KISS song.  Anyway, I’ll be seeing pretty much every movie that comes out in June, and summarily (eventually) linking to my reviews here.  So yeah, without further stalling [...]

Well, it’s that time of year again.  Namely, it’s the time of year when Quirk Classics puts out another literary mash-up novel.  This time, it’s Android Karenina, a mash-up of steampunk, aliens, 1870’s Russian aristocracy, romance, and robots.  They were goodly enough to send me a copy of the book, and I have to say [...]

Well, that was an unexpected hiatus.
Hello, I’m Ron.  This is my blog.  Do you remember who I am?  No?  Well, that’s okay.
I didn’t deliberately set out to just not post in my blog for like three weeks.  These kinds of things just happen when you self-host your blog, have to change your password more often [...]

It’s hard to review a comedy.  I mean, I can eyeball a horror movie or a sci-fi thriller or an action flick and say, “Yes, this is good,” or “No, this isn’t good,” pretty easily, even if it’s not my particular taste.  There’s nothing tougher to review than a comedy.  What I find funny, you [...]

After having sat on the review for an entire week, today is the release date for my Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls review.  It’s about time March 3 got here, because I’ve been going nuts talking the book up in private but without any recourse to spew my review upon the [...]

So I saw Cop Out, and I’m in the minority since I actually enjoyed the movie.  For me, it works as a direct homage to those 80’s buddy cop movies, before they got all worn out by overuse.  Most people apparently didn’t dig it, but I liked it and apparently the audience did too, since [...]

I reviewed Legion over at Den of Geek.  Look on these works, ye Paul Bettany fans, and despair.  Also, there’s Charles S. Dutton and Dennis Quaid, so despair a little extra for those two.
Yes, I know I just mixed Shakespeare’s Hamlet with Shelley’s Ozymandias.  I did that in much the same way Legion mixes The [...]

When I was at the coffee shop the other day, I was talking about movies.  (What, me?  Talk about movies?  Never!)  I forget how I got on this subject, but eventually it all came around to The Book of Eli.  I mentioned that I reviewed it for Den of Geek and mentioned how, five years [...]