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| Thursday, April 19th, 2012 | | 6:06 pm |
Movie Reviews: Commentaries on nostalgia
Titles Covered: The Artist, The Three Musketeers, Young Adult, Chronicle, Turtles Forever, The Adventures of Tintin, The Immortals, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (American version), Exit through the Gift Shop, Marty, and 8½. ( Read more... ) | | Monday, April 16th, 2012 | | 5:13 pm |
| | Sunday, March 11th, 2012 | | 9:40 pm |
Movie Reviews: Surprisingly good, and surprisingly bad.
Titles Covered: Anonymous, Hugo, Wings, Moneyball, Real Steel, War Horse, In Time, The Last Emperor, Out of Africa, and Romeo and Juliet (1968). ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 | | 2:02 pm |
| | Monday, February 6th, 2012 | | 2:52 pm |
| | Thursday, February 2nd, 2012 | | 3:27 pm |
| | Monday, January 9th, 2012 | | 12:24 pm |
Movie Reviews: Stuff I saw around Christmas, and a bunch of Batman animated movies.
Titles Covered: Midnight in Paris, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, The Tree of Life, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, Wizards, Winnie the Pooh (2011), Miracle on 34th Street (original versus 1994 remake), Batman Animated: Mask of the Phantasm, Mystery of the Batwoman, Gotham Knight, Under the Red Hood, and Year One. ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, December 7th, 2011 | | 10:33 am |
It must have been a slow news day...
To be fair, Fox News might have a point. It was pretty jarring when Kermit the Frog criticized Tex Richman for his wealth and argued that the government should raise taxes in order to fund Universal Healthcare. Or when Miss Piggy railed against oil and pointed out that alternative fuels are the way of the future. And let us not forget that montage in which we see where the other muppets ended up, and they are all part of Occupy Wall Street. But the weirdest part of all was the climax, in which Kermit and friends defeated the evil capitalist by getting a Federal grant, rather than appealing to their supporters for private funds. Oh, wait... None of that is true. In actuality, none of the Muppets seemed to care that Tex Richman was wealthy or dealt in oil. They were just upset that he planned to raze their historical home, the Muppet Theater, rather than turning it into a Muppet Museum like he promised. | | Wednesday, November 30th, 2011 | | 1:03 pm |
Titles Covered: The Muppets (2011), Rio, Cars 2, Fast Five, Attack the Block,The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (original), The Great Dictator, The Secret of Kells, Species, and Australia. ( Read more... ) | | Monday, November 14th, 2011 | | 10:51 am |
| | Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 | | 8:51 pm |
Movies Reviewed: Trollhunter, Fire and Ice, Morning Glory, Damn Yankees, Field of Dreams, Throne of Blood, Lifeboat, Boyz N the Hood, The Red Shoes, and X-Files: Fight the Future.( Read more... ) | | Saturday, October 15th, 2011 | | 11:34 am |
Titles: Bridesmaids, Super 8, Jane Eyre (2011), The Beaver, Hereafter, THX-1138, The Lord of the Rings, The Triplets of Bellevue, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Deconstructing Harry, Pitch Black, and Giant. ( Read more... ) | | Friday, September 23rd, 2011 | | 11:58 am |
| | Tuesday, September 13th, 2011 | | 3:20 pm |
Titles covered: Call of Duty Black Ops, de Blob 2, Lost in Shadow, NBA Jam (Wii version), Tales of Symphonia (original and Dawn of the New World), Tales of Monkey Island, Aliens versus Predator 2, and Super Meat Boy. ( Read more... ) | | Monday, August 29th, 2011 | | 5:00 pm |
2011 Superheroes
2011 is the year of the second-tier superhero, so let's take a look at The Green Hornet, Thor, Xmen First Class, Green Lantern, and Captain America. ( Read more... ) | | Sunday, August 21st, 2011 | | 7:28 pm |
Movie Reviews: Monkeys, Cowboys, Insanity, and More
Titles Covered: Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Cowboys and Aliens, Requiem for a Dream, Titus, M, Idiocracy, RED, The 6th Day, and Fireproof. ( Read more... ) | | Wednesday, July 20th, 2011 | | 5:00 pm |
This is why you shouldn't remake movies that are less than 10 years old.
You might or might not have heard that they're remaking Spiderman. Yes, it's being called a "reboot" or some nonsense like that, but as far as I can tell, it's a complete redo of the "Peter Parker is a geeky love-struck teenager who gets bitten by a mutant spider while touring a lab and has to fight a mad scientist mutated by his own experiments" origin story that kicked off Sam Raimi's Spiderman trilogy. Anyway, here's the trailer: It's an OK trailer, and the first-person CGI stuff at the end is kinda neat. But there's no real content aside from "OMG, it's Spiderman!" This would have been a great sell if it were the first Spiderman movie, or the first to come along after a long hiatus. For 2011, however, it's just "OMG, it's that movie that you just watched a few years ago! With different actors! OMG!" | | Monday, July 11th, 2011 | | 5:26 pm |
| | Thursday, June 30th, 2011 | | 1:33 pm |
It's official: Video games are now protected by the First Amendment.
A few choice quotes from Scalia's majority decision: "Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas—and even social messages—through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player’s interaction with the virtual world). That suffices to confer First Amendment protection. Under our Constitution, aesthetic and moral judgments about art and literature are for the individual to make, not for the Government to decree." "Minors are entitled to a significant measure of First Amendment protection, and only in relatively narrow and well-defined circumstances may government bar public dissemination of protected materials to them. No doubt a State possesses legitimate power to protect children from harm, but that does not include a free-floating power to restrict the ideas to which children may be exposed." "California’s argument would fare better if there were a longstanding tradition in this country of specially restricting children’s access to depictions of violence, but there is none. Certainly the books we give children to read—or read to them when they are younger—contain no shortage of gore. Grimm’s Fairy Tales, for example, are grim indeed. As her just deserts for trying to poison Snow White, the wicked queen is made to dance in red hot slippers “till she fell dead on the floor, a sad example of envy and jealousy.” Cinderella’s evil stepsisters have their eyes pecked out by doves. And Hansel and Gretel (children!) kill their captor by baking her in an oven. High-school reading lists are full of similar fare." "In the 1800’s, dime novels depicting crime were blamed in some quarters for juvenile delinquency. ... When motion pictures came along, they became the villains instead. ... Radio dramas were next, and then came comic books. ... And, of course, after comic books came television and music lyrics." Five of the Justices (Scalia, Ginsberg, Kagan, Sotomayer, and Kennedy) struck down the California violent videogame law on 1st Amendment grounds. Alito and Roberts concurred with the majority, but for slightly different reasons. They agreed that the law in question was bogus, but felt that the government might have the authority to regulate videogames. Interestingly, one of Alito's examples of depraved videogames was Custer's Revenge, a "porn" game from the early 80's that's widely recognized as a joke. | | Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 | | 12:37 am |
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