Category: Arts & Entertainment
Just when I thought I was out…
Looper isn’t the time-traveling mob movie we expect, but it may just be the time-traveling mob movie we need.
Failure to Comply
I can’t tell if Dredd is a satire on hyper-violent action movies, or just an unusually smart and well-made hyper-violent action movie. And I’m not entirely sure that the distinction even matters.
Variations on a Queen
Or, “Maybe I’m Just Like My Mother.” Brave is a Pixar movie that doesn’t behave like people want or expect it to. Unmarked spoilers.
Occupy Crime Alley
The Dark Knight Rises explores the issue of wealth disparity by showing us that both rich and poor are united by a common lack of diction. Spoilers abound.
We Can Remake It For You Half-Assed
There’s really nothing wrong with the Total Recall remake except for the disappointing Kuatolessness of it all.
What I Learned From The Movies On TV
Live TV is sending me serious signals that it wants to spend more time apart.
Roughage: A Novel
A somewhat interesting question arises from an uninteresting debate: can books be both cinematic and literary? How much can we expect to get from a work of art, if artists deliver everything to us in an easily digestible manner?
Some Assembly Required
On how awesome The Avengers is, and a definitive answer as to why the Marvel movies are better than DC’s.
A Thousand Points of Light
Distraction-free entertainment is totally L7 to the max, Daddy-o! The kidz are all about the texting these days and you just have to get on board with the program!
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.
Eerie Tales of the House of Mystery
Today on Late to the Party Theater: Chuck discovers that Locke & Key is a terrific horror comic that calls back to the “classics” without feeling like a self-conscious reinterpretation.
