more flash movie reviews.

So I picked up another small stack of rental movies on Saturday, and (miraculously) managed to watch two of them over the weekend: Coraline and Inkheart.  Both of them are movie adaptations of Kid/Young Adult fantasy books.
Coraline was just a lovely, charming piece of work.  It’s hard to explain the Gaiman Factor to someone who [...]

it’s all that slovakian midget porn.

Here’s what the salesguy said to me when I bought my 120GB iPod:
“I don’t know anyone who can actually fill up an iPod classic.”
Here’s my current iPod status:

Dear Steve Jobs: Please to be making beeger iPod, kthxbai.

two to the body, one to the head…

Another movie on my to-watch list I finally got around to spinning up in iTunes: Collateral.
Hot damn.  Somebody gave Wacky Tommy some excellent lessons on how to properly handle a pistol in general, and the execution of a Mozambique Drill in particular.  He comes across as such a badass in the movie that it almost [...]

the movie critic is [in].

A few short critiques of movies I’ve finally gotten around to watching recently:
Aeon Flux
Synopsis:  Resistance super-assassin goes up against autocratic government.  Don’t try to figure out the plot too much, just enjoy the visuals.  It’s Equilibrium with Charlize Theron instead of Christian Bale kicking the shit out of people.
Verdict:  It wasn’t as terrible as I [...]

on the general suckiness of sequels.

So I hear the Transformers sequel is pretty good….if “good” is defined as “sucks only slightly less than ‘Gigli’.”
I have a pretty dim view of sequels in general, mostly because the majority of sequels merely tries to cash in on the success of the first movie, rather than offering something new and original.  The worst [...]

a gun for werewolf.

Answering my own question about original werewolf movies or novels, I’ll name Whitley Strieber’s Wolfen, which was a pretty good and inventive novel, and a tolerable horror film (even if the film diverged from the source material quite substantially.)
For those who asked or commented…yes, I’m toying with the idea of a novel in the genre.  [...]

rawr.

A question for readers of urban fantasy:
What’s the most original and interesting variation on the werewolf theme you’ve read in fiction or seen in a movie?

"you’ll never fill that one up."

Thanks for all the suggestions for new music.  Keep ‘em coming!  I’m assembling a list that should double my iTunes music library.
Here’s the status of my current iPod:

When I bought this thing (a 120GB Classic), the sales guy said that very few people ever fill up a Classic.  As you can see, I’m well [...]

saturday fluff poll.

Today’s poll is just a harmless, uncontroversial poll about animated movies.  What could possibly go wrong with this one?

on robots, gay cowboys, and little golden statues.

If the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences had any sense of taste outside of the one on their tongues, they would have nominated Wall-E for best Picture, and not just in the Best Animated Feature category.
What the fuck is it with those people, anyway?  It’s so rare to see any genre flick get [...]