I’m a big fan of fantasy, so I couldn’t help but be intrigued when I saw the trailer for Pan’s Labyrinth. Satyrs and faeries and weird-looking monsters with eyes in their hands? Sounds great! I’m in. Unfortunately, the movie trailers and even the box itself make one glaring omission that would almost certainly turn most [...]
“Friends shouldn’t let friends write movies.” That was my wife’s opinion of the movie, and I can’t disagree. I wouldn’t say it was a bad. In fact, I’d say I enjoyed it overall. It’s just exceedingly silly, perhaps too much so at times (the sasquatch scene comes to mind… don’t ask). Here’s the best scene [...]
My wife and I rarely go out of our way to get to the theatre thanks to our two-year-old. Since the last installment of Pirates of the Caribbean, however, we’ve been aching to see how the story ends, so we made the time to catch At World’s End on opening weekend. My review of At [...]
I rented this movie on the recommendation of an old college buddy. In fact, we were once in the same sci-fi/fantasy movie club, proving that we have at least somewhat similar tastes when it comes to movies. Thus, I’m inclined to trust his judgment on the occasion that he takes the time out of his [...]
What is it these days with mutant hillbillies? First came Wrong Turn, and now The Hills Have Eyes. Don’t get me wrong; they’re both fairly decent horror movies. It’s just that I, for one, have never thought of hillbillies as scary. Having lived in the country for part of my childhood, I met more than [...]
When I mentioned going on a date with my wife to see Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, my mother was actually asking for a review before the date ever happened. Oh well, it’s not as if I couldn’t have predicted that it would be at least as good, if not better, than the [...]
I like movies. Thanks to my son, now exhibiting symptoms of his upcoming terrible two’s, my wife and I don’t get to see them as often. Naturally, we wouldn’t trade parenthood for the world, but we often reminisce about how frequently we used to go to the movies together in college. The first way we’ve [...]
Despite the recommendations of several friends who had read and loved the book, I didn’t get around to watching Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy until just recently. It’s worth mentioning that the friends of whom I speak are just as nerdy and weird as am I, in some cases moreso. Thus, it came as no [...]
As my wife and I have been deprived of television and internet access on moving into our new apartment, it should come as no surprise that we’ve been making frequent trips to the video store. On our most recent excursion, we rented the horror film entitled “Dark Water.” Generally speaking, I consider myself a big [...]
As a general rule, my wife and I don’t get to go out to the movies like we used to, a fact that can be attributed entirely to our one-year-old son. After all, nobody wants to be the person in the theater with the screaming child. Perhaps he’ll have enough attention span in a few [...]