We rented After the Sunset to watch with my family while they’re in town for the weekend. My dad went to bed early, but everyone else seem to enjoy the movie. Ignoring some goofs (how can you talk on a radio while diving with a regulator in your mouth?), I thought it was pretty entertaining […]
Right now my local theaters (the ones worth going to at least) are showing a whopping six showings of Revenge of the Sith on each of May 19 and May 20. There are a few ways to view this.
Most shows are already sold out They’ll be adding more shows as we get closer and those sell […]
The Guardian just pulled on its flame-proof battle suit and released The world’s 40 best directors. Not to put it lightly, I think this will be a little controversial. There’s not a “mainstream” director in the list (well, maybe Martin Scorsese), and the list tends to favor directors who hit the stage in the 70s […]
They call me Mr. Tibbs
One interesting side effect of watching old movies is getting to see classic lines in context. Some work (”I coulda been a contendah“) and some don’t. Well, this one works pretty well. I’m really growing to like Sidney Poitier, and I thought Rod Steiger did a pretty good job […]
Oops. I’ve trying to reorganize my RSS subscriptions in Bloglines so I’m better about staying up-to-date. Well, in the process I accidentally deleted a group of feeds. Fortunately, I have a backup of my blogroll, so I imported it back into Bloglines. This created a bunch of duplicate subscriptions. So I deleted everything and tried […]
Worst Idea of the Week: War Games II: The Deadly Key — “will follow Cory Carpenter on a class trip in Europe when the authorities wrongly mistake him for a cyber criminal.” I really want to know who thought this would be a good idea.