For show and tell today, here is my movie report. In the 1600′s, Americans with very bad fake Scottish and French accents make each other angry. The fake Frenchie clamps a red hot iron hockey mask on the fake Scot, who for inexplicable reasons has an Irish surname (McCullen). Four centuries later, McCullen’s descendant has [...]
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Public Enemies
So, you wanna know why us girls like bad boys? Go see Public Enemies and you’ll see a bona fide Kiss Me Now You Fool Bad Boy — not the all-too-common a-holes who masquerade as the real deal. Oh– movie review stuff first. Dum dee dum dum. The cinematography reinforces that this is a highly [...]
The Murder of Optimus Prime
The movie’s been out since Wednesday at 12:01 a.m., so I’m not waiting any more to talk about it. If you haven’t seen it yet, tough luck Chuck. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen achieves its purpose. It’s two and a half hours of giant rampaging robots wrecking everything in sight. And they’ve upped the ante, [...]
The Hangover
Prologue to the review: leave the children at home. This is not a morality tale, and it makes no apologies. This is a very, very R-rated film, and should not be viewed by anyone who is offended by vomiting, gunfire, inappropriate caricatures of police officers, urination, frighteningly ugly butt cheeks, shamefully light views of animal [...]
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Disclaimer: I was predisposed to like this one from the beginning, so it’s fair enough to call me a partial and prejudiced reviewer. Jane Austen is often called the first feminist fiction writer, and a new take on her most popular Regency romance — coauthored by Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith, and Kenneth Grahame — puts the [...]
