Subtle Bluntness

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 [...]

Well, I got a chance to go check out Repo Men, the latest in a long line of sci-fi action thrillers with a better concept than execution.  I mean, the idea of a future where artificial organs can be repossessed when you don’t pay your bills isn’t a far-out concept.  We’re pretty close to that [...]

I’ve noticed a lot of discussion on the various V review threads at Den of Geek, and I’ve put together a list of questions from them that I’ve been answering.  So, if you have any questions you’d like to see me answer, here’s a great place to put them (so I’ll know to see them).  [...]

Since I’m reviewing V for Den of Geek (here’s the second episode review!), I’ve been reading a lot of other responses to see what people are thinking about the show.  I figure, if they have problems that I’m not seeing, I can look for those issues.  If other people are having problems with certain aspects [...]

If there’s one thing I learned from the response to my review of The Fourth Kind, it’s that people love the phrase “The Fourth Kind is cat poop and onions.”  I thought I had included something about chocolate and peanut butter and two great tastes, but I guess I didn’t.  Or I did and my [...]

So did you guys catch the first episode of the new V series last night?  I did, and it was EPIC.  When I say it’s the most exciting show premier I’ve seen since Deadwood, I am NOT kidding. They managed to cover the base of the original series, but strip away a lot of the [...]

Well, I saw two movies in the last two weeks, Jennifer’s Body and Surrogates.  Jennifer’s Body was fun horror/comedy, and Surrogates was kind of fun (because of Bruce Willis) sci-fi/action, but it was Surrogates that got my brain a-scrambling like a midget on a treadmill.  Well, it was a combination of Surrogates and this quote [...]

I’ve decided that Michael C. Hall is completely incapable of acting in any role where the character is supposed to be a heterosexual.  Every role I’ve seen him in, from David Fisher to Dexter to Ken Castle in Gamer, comes across as the character being gay, even if the character isn’t supposed to be gay.  [...]

Okay, so maybe 7 didn’t eat 9, but I did go see 9, the new animated sci-fi stitchpunk post-apocalyptic action-thriller adjectives-filled feast for the eyes from executive producers Tim Burton and Timur Bekmambetov.  Oh, also director/writer/animator Shane Acker, but nobody knows who he is so let’s mention the people involved with paying for the movie [...]

I have a confession to make.  I think I’ve finally started to come around to the idea that Nicolas Cage is no longer really trying to push himself.  He’s content, as we all would be, to take big paychecks and not do too much work except when he wants to.  Hence all the action-thriller blow-em-ups [...]