Posts Tagged ‘film’
Drag Me to Hell is a horror parable for the new millennium, or, more specifically, a horror morality play all about the Great Recession.
It doesn’t seem like that, maybe. On the surface, it’s pretty straightforward: girl shames gypsy woman, gypsy woman curses her to be plagued by a dark spirit known as the Lamia. She [...]
Holy shit, I didn’t hate Terminator: Salvation.
I caught it on a lark, today. I had finished the chapter I wanted to finish, I’d done some yard work, and had to head out to an appointment, and found myself with an hour and a half to kill.
So, movie.
To reiterate: holy shit, I didn’t hate Terminator: [...]
Left yesterday at 7:00 AM to head down to Doylestown.
Picked up Lance by 8:00 AM. To the train in Princeton.
Then, New York City, which is much shinier than last I saw it. I haven’t been to Manhattan in… I dunno, eight years? And it was, even then, even after its Giuliani sanitization, possessing of [...]
(Prologue: I just wrote 6,000 words. I should not be writing more words. And yet, I am. My sanity is barely intact, and my brain has turned into a clayey smear, so take my words here with a giant salt lick. Don’t judge me, monkey.)
(Prologue II, The Wrath of Epilogue: Just in case anybody doesn’t [...]
Just saw Star Trek, the ‘09 “reboot.” And I figured, hey, I have a website. I can make type-type on my blogbook! Right? What better way to entertain you gibbbering gibbons than with a review of the new Star Trek movie?
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Except, I don’t know what to say. “I liked it.” That’s it. That’s as deep [...]
