Archive for the 'Movies' Category

Pan’s Labyrinth

Monday, August 6th, 2007

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 [...]

Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

“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 [...]

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

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 [...]

Hard Candy

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

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 [...]

The Hills Have Eyes

Monday, October 16th, 2006

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 [...]

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Friday, July 21st, 2006

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 [...]

Netflix and Fandango

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

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 [...]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Monday, April 17th, 2006

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 [...]

Dark Water

Friday, January 6th, 2006

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 [...]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

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 [...]