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Category: Movies/TV Reviews

  • Carrie (+ Random Thoughts)

    Musings on viewing Carrie. MP3 File

  • Chronicles of Riddick, The

    If you can tell me what the hell this movie is about, more power to you. What a snoozefest. What a way to flush Judi Dench’s time down the toilet. The movie seems like it has 2 separate storylines that limp along like a drunk slug. Effects and design are great and features hotter-than-hot Thandie […]

  • Gefangen

    In our quest to find gay films that might possible be arousing and entertaining (without being too pornographic), Ron and I stumbled on Locked Up, a German prison film (originally titled Gefangen). What the hell kinds of prisons to they have in Germany? These guys have wine and chairs and furniture and magazines and pickles […]

  • Resident Evil: Apocalypse

    I have to withdraw a comment I made at the video store today. I was thinking how funny Milla Jovovich was in Zoolander and Head Over Heels and why didn’t someone give her more comedic roles. Yes, she is sorta funny as Katinka Ingabogovinanana in Zoolander and when Ron decided to catch Head Over Heels […]

  • Crash

    Continuing my Cronenberg-fest, I rented Crash. I had missed it in the theatres but always wanted to view it myself – of course the NC-17 rated version. Cronenberg knows horny. A leggy blonde walks into a aircraft hangar. Her hand traces the rivets of a plane’s steel wings. A sigh escapes her open mouth. She […]

  • Saved!

    I sort of forget sometimes that there really are some sincere Jesus-freaks in this country. My Catholic high school had a small gang of them – girls that would wear T-shirts with embryos announcing their commitment to pro-life. The closeted guys playing piano and singing during our liturgies (that was me on the piano). But […]

  • Brood, The

    I think it was Ebert that noted that David Cronenberg’s chief obsession is to make us feel disgusting about our own bodies. Continuing from The Bad Seed, I rented another ‘evil children’ movie last night, The Brood. Brood captures the suspicion of 1970’s breakthroughs in therapy – I think this was chiefly called ‘encounter groups.’ […]

  • Bad Seed, The (1956)

    I’m halfway through viewing The Bad Seed. I believe this started a long line of ‘evil children’ films. I think tomorrow night I’ll watch Village of the Damned. Then Children of the Corn. It is funny that the movie is so obviously a direct adaptation of a play. Tons of exposition and everything can happen […]

  • American Idol Season 4

    Forgot to blog this. I totally loved the way they dismissed that Judd guy last week. Had the other row of guys come down and line them up – torture them with a commercial break – then come back – dismiss them all one by one as safe and then look at Judd and say […]

  • There's Something About Marrying (The Simpsons)

    I thought that gay-marriage episode of The Simpsons was a total cop-out – not as bad as the Joe Millionaire false-ending cop-out but more along the lines of a Chris Carter X-Files ‘end of one season tease to movie and then not answer anything and tease to next season and still not answer anything’ cop-out. […]