G.I.JANE (1997) Director: Ridley Thelma & Louise having worked well for him, Ridley continues to ride the feminist wave. Here, however, he has a female protagonist who’s smarter than the two of them combined. Love her or hate her, you have to admit that Demi Moore went balls-out for this movie. She’s ripped as fuck … Continue reading
CRIMSON TIDE (1995) Director: Tony First of all, love the title. It suits you, baby, it really does. This is a crackerjack little film, hitting hard, fast and on all the right cylinders. The script was credited solely to Michael Schiffer, but word is that a number of writers took a crack at this, not … Continue reading
Sorry for the lateness of this blog, I have a few things going on in my life at the moment that are a huge distraction. However I made myself a promise that I would write a blog once a week regardless and that is exactly what I’m going to do. I have come to the … Continue reading
Outlander arrives on Blu-Ray today. I’ve had this article lying around for quite a while. Seems like the last reasonable opportunity to deploy it, so: Enjoy! The other day, I found a stack of my old artwork from my high school years. I didn’t remember myself as being the little metalhead that the … Continue reading
I love to write. I sometimes feel like that’s what I was put on this earth to do, despite how lame that sounds. I’m currently engaged in four different writing projects, each of which pulls from a different portion of my creative center: “The Draconia Chronicles”A web comic that I write for, this has been … Continue reading
No, not the same show. That would have been… insane. Not that the Fuck Buttons weren’t insane, so let’s begin there. Tuesday: I get out of work and hustle up into Silverlake to meet up with my friend Chris. We share beers with some old friends and then head off to the Troubador for the … Continue reading
For a film billed as a thriller, Kontroll is mighty abstract. For some reason, I always had it in mind that Kontroll was about some supernatural killings happening in the Budapest subway system–so I’m glad to learn that it’s not. I’m also glad that after passing it by on the Videodrome shelves for several years, … Continue reading
Death-Defying Institutional Brands I’m increasingly intrigued by the ability of certain brands to outlast the loss of their underlying substance. Facts are stubborn things, John Adams said, but sometimes, it seems, not as stubborn as brands. Let me offer a few examples, and then let’s see if we can identify any principles at work behind … Continue reading
After the recent airing of the episode that seems to have driven off all but the die hard fans, “Across The Sea”, Lost has just gotten more confusing, as well as seemingly retconning pretty much everything that came before season 4. If anything, that episode has made me still love the show, and I’ll be … Continue reading
There were so many talented people driving the new Robin Hood movie, and so much obvious expense and energy involved in its making, that it’s somewhat bewildering to notice that what has ended up onscreen is just plain not what you want out of a Robin Hood movie. Well, it ultimately manages to get … Continue reading