Santa was good to me this year. My Christmas booty, the highlights: The Stanley Kubrick Archives-An insanely cool book from the equally insane Taschen. Hundreds of high quality photos and interviews of and about my favorite film director. My girlfriend picked this up for me; Shorty be right! Super Mario Bros Wii-Proof that sometimes simple … Continue reading
The Blue Shell is quite possibly my favorite sea food place that’s nearby. There’s another nice joint that Vanessa and I love to go to, but that place is at South Padre Island, and that place is a good 50 miles away. I love eating grilled fish. That’s the meal I’ve loved to eat for … Continue reading
The Blue Shell is quite possibly my favorite sea food place that’s nearby. There’s another nice joint that Vanessa and I love to go to, but that place is at South Padre Island, and that place is a good 50 miles away. I love eating grilled fish. That’s the meal I’ve loved to eat for … Continue reading
I first read about this movie in 2003 in Fangoria. Back when I still read that magazine anyway. I thought it was interesting that Stuart Gordon was making a different movie than I had already from him, since I had seen Re-Animator and Dagon previously. This flick was also put out by The Asylum. Yes, … Continue reading
Villainy in film is hard to get right. You run the gamut of smooth talking Europeans who happen to be vastly entertaining in their villainy (Alan Rickman in Die Hard) to utterly characterless and boring villains (Timothy Olymphant in Die Hard 4). In the case of someone like Hans Gruber, he’s funny and he’s more … Continue reading
It’s that time of year again. . . the end. The time of year that my film nerd friends start pestering me for a top ten of the year list. So, I make a mad dash to the theater, line up my Netflix queue, and watch 2009 movies like crazy. Anything that seems interesting, even … Continue reading
Once again it falls on me to save the world from robots.
So my son has this Nascar Race Track that he received for his birthday that is actually kind of fun. You get these Nascars that race on the rubber track. These cars will actually fly around the track and pass each other magically on the corners and spin each other into the “infield” carpet. It’s … Continue reading
Before we begin – I would like to offer the disclaimer that this list is not a list of what I think are the best or most important movies of the decade. My music list was that, filtered of course through my own experiences. With films however I do not hit as broad a spectrum … Continue reading
Avatar is like nothing you’ve ever seen before, even though you’ve absolutely seen this story many times before. Is that a coy contradiction? Is it a negative statement? I hope not. I think you can love something while still seeing and understanding its flaws. Bottom line up top: I loved watching Avatar and … Continue reading