I’ve seen a lot of the films on this list already, but I’m going to see if I can squeeze them all in this year. There are so many American films that should be on this list rather than some of their choices, but as an arbitrary listing of things to see, there are some [...]
Read more →Copied from my Facebook post Just got into it with a serious bitch in line at Starbucks. She was in a serious rush, yelling at the staff for only having one cash running. She neeeeeded her coffee and she needed it now, and she wanted to let them know. Flapping her limp $5 bill at [...]
Read more →I’ve been advised that I’ve been tried and convicted by the secret Facebook community standards tribunal. I’m under a 24 hour ban from posting anything, and I don’t know why. Which of my thousands of posts or photos has offended someone so much that they took the tiniest of efforts to flag something as offensive? [...]
Read more →Woke up to this email from a university student in Nebraska. As I did last time, I need to break this up a bit in order to properly respond to it. First, the letter with my inline responses for the wider audience, and then I’ll post my email response, which was much more brief. Dear [...]
Read more →HURT LOCKER – I found this a bit less impressive than I’d expected, given the Oscars it won. Over-rated, with characters that just don’t mean anything; to each other or the viewer.
Read more →CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES – Caesar, son of the talking apes from the future, finds out about the humans’ slave trade in ape servants, and he’s not having any of it. Caesar apparently convinces these non-talking apes to rebel merely by looking at them, and they rise up and say “NO!” This [...]
Read more →BENEATH THE PLANET OF THE APES – Astronaut Brent shows up on this surprisingly Earth-like planet, on a rescue mission to find Taylor. Enter the insane nuclear missile worshiping remnants of the human race, hiding underground, and it’s time to destroy the Earth again. This film feels like a rehash of the first film, as [...]
Read more →BUCK – I was reluctant to watch this film; how interesting could a film about a horse trainer be? Well, it turns out it’s pretty good, thanks to a surprisingly charismatic central figure in Buck.
Read more →THE LAST MOUNTAIN – No real revelations; coal mining is destroying the Appalachians, and the lives of many in the area. Well produced film captures some of the impact on one community.
Read more →THE RED CHAPEL – Interesting bit of sneaky documentary work. They were able to get away with a lot by not speaking English. I felt bad for Jacob, as he was lead into this project under something of a false pretence by the film maker. LEPRECHAUN – So very bad on so many fronts, but [...]
Read more →THE MANHATTAN PROJECT – This film features one of the cheeriest “I’m making a bomb!” montages ever produced. This is a whole lot cheesier and much more shallow than I remember. “We’re kids – what are they going to do – it’s a prank!” In 1986? Maybe not… In 2011? Waterboarding. You’d think that ONE [...]
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