“Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.” – Kim Pine Let’s get this out of the way right now – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is awesome. More than that, it’s practically made of awesome. The original graphic […]
Movie Reviews
42 Reasons Why “G.I. Joe” is Awesomely Bad
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is not a good movie. It is, however, an awesomely bad movie. See, something like Transformers 2 is a legitimately bad movie. Joyless and insulting, full of contempt for its source material while managing to be even stupider than the original. If you try […]
Half-Ass Movie Review: Up
Some years ago, Randy Newman won a Best Original Song Oscar for his work in Pixar’s Monsters Inc. In his speech, (which included the line, “If I had a heart, I think I’d be feeling what they call ‘joy’”) he said “Pixar’s done four movies now, and they’ve all been […]
Half Ass Movie Review: Watchmen (Mar 11)
Not that it’ll make Alan Moore feel any better, but the Watchmen movie actually turned out pretty good. True, even a completely faithful, 100% successful adaptation would have thrown the reclusive writer into fits, but considering that his work had previously been adapted into the disastrous League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, […]
Half-Ass Movie Review: Gran Torino
I’ve been noodling with a way to start this review for more than an hour. So rather than try to do something all clever, I’ll just put the lead right out front: Gran Torino is awesome. I’m a huge fan of Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven is my favorite movie of […]
Wish Upon a Box Set: DVDs I Would Buy (Nov 17)
It seems hard to believe, but there are still shows that haven’t been released on DVD yet. More to the point, there are shows I would buy that haven’t been released on DVD yet. I’m sure there are dozens of delightful unreleased sitcoms about men who are successful and well-respected […]