I just finished staying up with Heather watching Julie & Julia, a 2009 movie about two women: Julie Powell, as she spends a year cooking her way through all the recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking while living in post-9/11 New York with her husband. It also tells the story of Julia […]
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When my wife and I were dating, she was still playing tennis. She said she had an 85 mile-an hour-backhand. I don’t know jack about sports, so I just filed the factoid away. Anyway, we were out on the court, and I was throwing tennis balls across the fence so she could hit them. You […]
Fifteen minutes into the midnight showing of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra the film burned and broke. That was my favorite part of the movie. No, I’m not kidding. If I hadn’t been there with my children and students I would have walked out shortly after they got it back up and running. I […]
I’ve been a big fan of Wallace & Gromit ever since Heather and I saw The Wrong Trousers in a tiny-screened art house theater. The kids grew up on the original three shorts, and we loved Curse of the Wererabbit as well. However, none of us much cared much for Nick Park’s latest, A Matter […]
My patience for bad movies and even less-than-awesome movies is diminishing quickly. To that end, my reviews for bad movies will grow smaller also; it’s bad enough to lose 90-120 minutes of your life to a bad movie, but why give it the attention you would give a good movie when you really just want […]
Last night I saw Pixar’s latest movie, Up It was brilliant. For those of you who either haven’t seen it or, hopefully, haven’t even seen the trailers, I will just say this: go see it. Personally, I try not to watch trailers anymore, as it seems some of Hollywood’s most talented people make awesome trailers for […]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine isn’t really that great of a movie. It doesn’t stink like X-Men 3, but it doesn’t rock like X-Men 1 & 2. The movie has a number of completely superfluous characters who, if you removed them from the movie, wouldn’t change the plot one bit, Gambit and The Blob being the most […]
As an apology to moviegoers everywhere, M. Night Shyamalan has been touring the country visiting with people and offering to make things right with everyone who saw The Happening–by letting them kick him in the crotch. “I figure I have it coming,” said a hobbling Shyamalan. “That movie really was a turd sandwich.” Shyamalan is […]
I have found that it is certainly much easier to write a list than to actually try to assemble words into sentences and sentences into words, so on that note: The Top Ten Six Reasons why M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening Is Terrible (contains spoilers, but they aren’t as spoily as watching this movie) Zooey […]
Iron Man and Kung Fu Panda, in that order. I won’t belabor this point with extensive reviews, first, because lots of people already have, and second, if you don’t want to see them you don’t deserve to see them. Iron Man is a good, fun movie. The protagonist shows a lot of character development (sort […]