I’ve actually been fairly amused over the media hyperventilating precipitated by the “recent” “revelation” of the Gospel of Judas, a Gnostic text long thought lost to the vagaries of time, unearthed in 1978 and recently released for translation by the…
I watched the trailer for United 93, the upcoming film that attempts to portray the events aboard United Airlines flight 93 on September 11, 2001. For those that don’t remember, Flight 93 was the plane intended for the White House…
Have you heard of the jaw-dropping genius of Snakes on a Plane, a forthcoming thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson. If you need a plot summary, it’s right there: Snakes on a Plane. Starring Samuel L. Jackson. In any event, a…
Give it up for Faithful Sam and the Black Riders performing their smash hit, Mashed Taters (Potatoes)! Heh.
George Clooney – closet neocon? [Max Boot makes a decent point, but he fails to remember that it’s the writers of Clooney’s movies that have posited neocon-ish situations and merely let empty-headed Clooney chew the scenery in their invented worlds.…
Peggy Noonan has penned a very interesting piece for the Wall Street Journal today entitled “Boy in a Bubble – What George Clooney doesn’t know about life”. It is quite possibly one of the most sympathetic and generous readings of…
In the wake of Crash‘s upset of Brokeback Mountain for best picture at last night’s Oscars, Glenn Reynold linked to a post by Mickey Kaus claiming that the members of the Academy were not voting their consciences on the matter…
Those of you that know me know that I prefer to avoid cursing in any capacity, but there are times when only a certain term applies. Today is one of those times. Let’s get this out up front: Spike Lee…
I’ll admit it up front: I’m a huge Bruce Campbell fan. In my not-so-humble opinion, there are few cinematic pleasures that can match Army of Darkness for sheer campiness, slapstick humor and overall enjoyability, so it was with a good…
First there was Shining and now Brokeback to the Future. Heh.
