Category: Movies
Knowing is Half the Battle
I can’t stop myself from writing about The Cabin in the Woods. Some validation and a question after a second viewing. Still includes tons of unmarked spoilers, so see it already.

Slutty Until Proven Innocent
Or, “Five Characters In Search Of A Little Human Empathy.” Copious unmarked spoilers for The Cabin in the Woods, discussing how it mocks not just horror movies’ stereotypes, but the audience’s own.
No, Virginia
John Carter is not a movie adaptation of A Princess of Mars, and that’s my biggest problem with it.
A Cookie Filled With Arsenic
Sweet Smell of Success is a classic movie with one of the greatest screenplays in the history of cinema. The Duellists is… not. I don’t understand why The Castro decided to run them together.
Heart Felt
We’re long past due for sincerity to make a comeback, and The Muppets are the perfect ones to bring it.
They Don’t Make ‘Em Like That Anymore
Captain America: The First Avenger is another case of Marvel making franchise movies better than they need to be.
Autobots! Roll (your eyes) out!
The Transformers movies are the after-effects of the 1990s disguised as nostalgia for the 1980s.
Spielberg & Abrams At The Movies
Super 8 is a movie about making and watching movies, and it’s best not to know any more than that.
Ms. Verisimilitude for Her
Thoughts after watching Bridesmaids and what I’m hoping is witnessing the slow heat death of Hollywood.
