Category Archives: The Big Screen

After much dragging of feet, we finally watched Serenity this weekend. It was on our Blockbuster list, but we had been kinda iffy about whether it would be any good. I mean, it was canceled before the first season was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Holy crap! See what lack of caffeine does to you? I nearly forgot one of the squeee-inducing highlights of going to see Dark Knight–the Watchmen trailer! Sadly, it appeared that Whiny the Elder, the Mrs and I were the onlye … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sigh. You know you’ve been cured of your blogging bug when you can’t even muster up the desire to write about your opening night adventure for The Dark Knight. Yes, us old farts actually went to the 12:01AM showing late … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The aforementioned Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog from Joss Whedon has everything I always like to see in a vaguely comic bookish movie musical–songs, nerdly passions, laundry, a freeze ray, singing cowboys, and Neil Patrick Harris. Part 1 came out on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Like many comic book fans, I went to see Ang Lee’s Hulk with pretty high anticipation. To put it bluntly, it was pretty damned boring. And even after Iron Man came out earlier this year and seemingly proved that Marvel … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Right up front, I don’t mean for this to be a negative review, in that I’m not trying to scare you away from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. In fact, I think everyone should see it, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nothing like a last minute trip out of town to mess up your perfectly timed rhythm. (I have this ‘do nothing’ thing timed down to a science!) At least it gave me a couple of days out of the horrible … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I actually wasn’t holding out a lot of hope for Iron Man. Up until now, the only Marvel titles that have been successful have been Spider-Man and X-Men, and even those two lost their bearings by the third installments. Daredevil … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It was a dream match-up. Jackie Chan vs. Jet Li. Man, what I wouldn’t have paid to see that…15 or 20 years ago. It’s not that Forbidden Kingdom is a terrible movie. (Heaven knows the criteria for a good martial … Continue reading → Continue reading →