If you thought George Lucas’ dreadful dialog in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith couldn’t get any worse, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Witness the unintentionally hilarious effects of running the script through a translation from English to…
Citizen Smash lays into the 14th century ideology of the Islamist nutjobs, Monty Python-style. ‘Course, it’d be a heck of a lot funnier if they weren’t actually trying to kill us. I guess the Romans probably weren’t a very funny…
Nostalgia Central has compiled the 40 Things That Only Happen In Movies. They’ve captured the essence of silver screen unreality perfectly, with such gems as: 4. Creepy music (or satanic chanting) coming from a graveyard should always be closely investigated.…
An origami Yoda you will learn to make if first this PDF you read. H/T: Weblog Tools.
Saturday: housework and Batman Begins (mini review: “Amazingly fantastic? Fantastically amazing? You be the judge!”). Sunday: church, then had my parents, brother and brother’s girlfriend over for dinner. Monday: had friends over for 4th of July cookout featuring fried chicken,…
The SCoTUS executed their traditional end-of-session “brain dump” today, splitting on two public displays of the Ten Commandments (TX state capitol: yes, KY courthouses: no), handing the keys to the candy store to the cable industry, and slamming Grokster for…
My wife and I just finished watching A Man For All Seasons, the film-based account of the last years of Sir Thomas More‘s life. While slightly fictionalized, the movie seems to hew fairly closely to the actual historical events surrounding…
…As defined in Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys: While our secrets have been kept safe largely by the fact that no one reads printed works that don’t contain the words “Harry Potter” anymore, our time may in fact be…
There has been a huge number of blogospheric reviews of Revenge of the Sith written since the film’s release, many of which were straight-forward reviews. Some, however, have stood out from the pack: Citizen Smash reports that RotS made him…
James Lileks finally got around to seeing The Incredibles and manages to compare it to Team America and Star Wars in such a simple-yet-profound fashion as to leave me, once more, in awe of his wordsmithing skills: Then, “The Incredibles. 
