Archive · 2006

September 2006

194 posts

DVD REVIEW: WIZARD, THE

BUY IT AT AMAZON: CLICK HERE!STUDIO: Universal StudiosMSRP: $12.73RATED: PGRUNNING TIME: 100 mins.SPECIAL FEATURES:• Goose EggThe Pitches “It’s for kids. And padding our obscenely large bank accounts.”“It’s also like Videodrome, but without David Cronenberg.”… Continue reading

REVIEW: PROTECTOR, THE

I did not see Tony Jaa’s film Tom Yum Goong in its original form, but there was no way to miss the bleeding gashes inflicted on the movie by the Weinstein Company as they turned it into The Protector. The film is often completely incoherent, with characters… Continue reading

THUD: VIVA LA RESISTANCE!

This contains spoilers for the finale of Battlestar season 2. Don't read it if you haven't seen all the episodes. I feel like an alcoholic who swallowed a little bit of mouth wash. I thought that I was handling the long hiatus between seasons of Battlestar… Continue reading

FRANK MILLER VERSUS AL QAEDA

Last year I had dinner with Frank Miller. It was an interesting experience, and will one day make for a good page or two in my memoirs. Frank was funny, and nice, and vocal about being more hawkish than Donald Rumsfeld. He also threatened to fight me when I… Continue reading

WHO WILL RESCUE RESCUE DAWN?

Here’s a personal note to Russ Lucas, who’s heading up to the Toronto Film Festival but couldn’t get tickets to Werner Herzog’s Rescue Dawn: You probably won’t be the only guy missing it, buddy. There was a rumor floating around over the weekend that has been… Continue reading

DAILY GRABOID 9.6.06

What is this? Every single day of the week (almost), a new "Graboid", a single moment grabbed from a random movie, appears on this site for you to guess the name of the film, share with your officemates, or discuss on our message boards. Sometimes the Graboid… Continue reading

REVIEW: HOLLYWOODLAND

It turns out that this year’s most interesting Superman movie has the Man of Steel’s brains painting the walls of his Los Angeles bedroom. Hollywoodland, once known by the far superior title Truth, Justice and the American Way before Warner Bros shit their… Continue reading

THOR'S COMIC COLUMN

Ding, dong, the Wizard is dead, let The Trials of Shazam! begin. By Graig Kent It’s almost inconceivable that at one point the adventures of Captain Marvel used to outsell those of Superman (and everyone else in fact), especially considering the character… Continue reading