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.
Zoinks, I’ve been tagged by Ryan, my Philly-area compatriot (sorry I haven’t been to a Meetup recently. Next one, I promise…). Yeah, I know it’s the blogging equivalent of a non-anonymous chain letter, but hey, it’s fun. As such, my…
By way of Dean Esmay, we have this wonderful, beautiful news: Serenity Might Fly Again? Loni Peristere, visual-effects supervisor for the SF movie Serenity, told SCI FI Wire that there’s hope for future flights of the cast and crew of…
I know I’m pretty late to this game, being the old fogey that I am, but you simply have to check out Saturday Night Live’s recent paen to Nerdcore rap, Lazy Sunday, or, as it’s come to be known, “The…
I’ve been a bit put off by the generally positive reviews of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe by other Christian bloggers, thinking that perhaps I was too harsh on the movie. However, having stumbled across Steven Greydanus’ review,…
