Pogo.com. It’s an online game website that features some favorites like Monopoly and Scrabble as well as some other cute games. Almost every day my best friend and I log on to play at least a couple games of Scrabble. This is one of the ways that we nurture a friendship that is seasoned with … Continue reading
Criticize Govt = Hate America? Back in Tokyo after three weeks on the road promoting Fault Line, drained as usual after these things but happy. Not much of a break this time, either, with the Japanese version and the Rain Fall movie coming out this month, but these are quality problems and no complaints. Got … Continue reading
In case you missed the news yesterday, Wolverine is loose. The print is available on the Internet, and you can watch it right now. Yesterday Devin wrote about how the print got online. What interests me is why. What motivates somebody to watch a crappy print of a film on their computer monitor instead of … Continue reading
When the script for Hamlet came across my desk, I couldn’t believe my eyes. Never before had dialog, plot, theme, and sexual punning been so masterfully mixed and cooked into something entertaining. I looked at the writer’s name, William Shakespeare, and thought, Wow! It takes some big balls to name yourself after THE William Shakespeare, … Continue reading
Yesterday I listed ten of the twenty most memorable bad guys from the history of cinema (as I have experienced it). Today I finish the job. These ten here are some real fuckers: Number 10: William Atherton as Walter Peck in Ghostbusters. What can I say that … Continue reading
How could the words ‘Chuck Palahniuk’ combined with the word Pygmy not get the ol’ juices flowing, eh? I have not heard word one about this book, didn’t even know it was coming when this morning my boss handed me a galley’s copy she’d received. Surprised and still on the vertical climb toward caffeinated approximation … Continue reading
I hated Twilight. The reason is very simple: I have a penis. Even my Mom read all the books AND watched the movie. It’s like heroin for tweens and and women over 40. Anyway, a “deleted scene” from Twilight has made it ’round the net this week, and it’s better than any scene in the real … Continue reading
Before making the lackluster adaptation of the Silent Hill videogame, director Christophe Gans made a much better, yet widely overlooked, film in the form of Brotherhood of the Wolf. Taking place in 18th century France, Brotherhood tells the story of the Gregoire de Fronsac, a man sent to investigate a series of mysterious murders which … Continue reading
Although living in Kuwait means we get to see films sometimes 6 months after you guys, sometimes we have the chance of watching a non-American film 6 months before you guys :)… That is the case with The Escapist I saw this film a few months back, and thought I should review it since I … Continue reading
Since this morning, and all day when I was sitting on ass, I’ve had a singular thought reverberating through my mind….The Arcade Fire’s “Wake Up”. Damnit Spike Jones, you have some great taste! The trailer for Where The Wild Things Are made its web debut this week, which was enough to give geek boners to all … Continue reading