Baddie: Cancer! Lesson: Sharks are friends, not science experiments. It’s the most wonderful timeeeee of the year. AKA Shark Week, Discovery Channel’s increasingly-full-of-crap week about sharks. What started as a week of education and interesting info has become somewhat of a low-budget schlock fest with some shark facts thrown in. I’m hoping we don’t have to suffer…
By the time a dismayed Agent Susan Cooper walks out of a hotel room dressed in a disguise that can only be accurately described as “tragically cat lady”– her second such disguise– it becomes abundantly clear that Spy is not primarily a parody of spy movies. Well, okay, it is. There are plenty of jokes to be had…
When I first heard that Ryan Gosling was writing and directing (but not appearing in) his own feature-length film, I got pretty intrigued. When I saw the weird as hell trailer, I got reasonably excited. It seemed that this chiseled Canadian muse took a stylistic page from his greatest patron: the inconsistently attractive Danish oddball…
I bring to you today a very obscure anime called Future Boy Conan. This 26 episode TV series is based on the Alexander Key novel The Incredible Tide, and I find it near criminal how few people know about it. As difficult as I find it is to pick favorites, Future Boy Conan is my favorite Japanese cartoon…
Baddie: Mommy issues. Lesson: Carry mace. It’s always interesting to discover little tidbits about some of the actors in Hollywood. For example, Elijah Wood loves horror movies so much he made his own production company, SpectreVision (formally The Woodshed). We know them best at Rooster Illusion for A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night, the kickoff post for…
Around these parts, I tend to write a lot about video game documentaries when the fancy strikes*. This is because while we have yet to see a truly excellent movie based on a video game (though I haven’t given up hope), recent years have given us a slew of documentaries that capture excellent snapshots of…
In 1993, Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park hit theaters. I just re-watched that movie a few weeks ago, and my goodness, it has aged well. What a perfect blockbuster. I do consider it Spielberg’s best. What makes that such a good movie, though? Obviously, an engaging story, likable characters, groundbreaking special effects, and a fabulous sense…
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