Category: Arts & Entertainment
No, Virginia
John Carter is not a movie adaptation of A Princess of Mars, and that’s my biggest problem with it.
Are you not entertained?!
Something about The Hunger Games isn’t sitting right with me, and I’m not quite sure exactly what it is. Minor spoilers abound.
Snow White and the 4 8 15 16 23 42 Dwarves
The series Once Upon a Time is part Fables and part Lost, which makes me wonder why I ever believed I wouldn’t get hooked on it.
Welcome to the schlock
Fox’s new series Alcatraz somehow manages to be less than the sum of its parts.
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.
Something Rotten
Orson Scott Card finally explains what Hamlet’s real problem was all along, but we’re still no closer to finding out why Card is such an asshole.
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.