Last week I did something that, in all my thirty-some years of being a southerner, I'd never done before: watched the entire movie Gone With The Wind.What did I think of it? I thought it was one of the best period pieces I've ever seen. But it got to the point where I was just waiting for somebody, anybody, to slap the heck out of Scarlett O'Hara. She was way too hung up on Ashley Wilkes for her own good and it cost her everything: in the end...
Monday, July 24, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Weird Al's coming STRAIGHT OUTTA LYNWOOD on September 26
After a week of tantalizing teasers, yesterday "Weird Al" Yankovic revealed the title and full cover artwork for his newest album. Straight Outta Lynwood arrives in stores on September 26th. Here's what it'll look like:Maybe it's just me, but this title and cover seems to be a lot more "serious" than the typical Al album. Guess I was expecting something along the lines...
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Four years ago today...
...I became the happiest man on the face of the earth.Happy Anniversary, my dear Lisa ...
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
"Game over man, game over!"
A little bit of cinema history: it was twenty years ago today - July 18th, 1986 - that the movie Aliens debut...
Monday, July 17, 2006
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST review
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest is one of those movies that just gets better and better the more I think about it, now four days after Lisa and I watched it at a theater in Newport News, Virginia. It was a really neat movie experience to wrap up what was a terrific - if completely unplanned - vacation. Now with some time behind me that was spent on "digesting...
Saturday, July 15, 2006
Pictures from our Hampton/Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Newport News excursion
Lisa took a lot more pictures with her film camera that I'll probably be adding on to these eventually, but here's a look at some of the stuff we did this past week after arriving in Hampton, Virginia:U.S. Navy aircraft carriers docked at NorfolkAnother Navy ship berthed in Norfolk (we caught this pic on our way back home.)Tuesday I got to do something that I've been wanting...
Friday, July 14, 2006
Return from the land of a thousand 7-Elevens
Lisa and I pulled back into home about 2:30 this afternoon, four days after taking off with no idea whatsoever where we were headed. All we knew was that we were going to head out of town and we didn't care where that put us. And I think the original plan was to try and make it at least as far as New Jersey and maybe take a quick jaunt into New York City. But in the end, Monday evening saw us marginally lost in Virginia Beach, headed up I-64 to...
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Eye-MAXed out on SUPERMAN RETURNS
At the behest of Darth Larry (who wrote a report last week after seeing it) and because we felt like a short trip was in order, Lisa and I ordered tickets this past Monday night for Superman Returns in IMAX 3D at the only IMAX screen (of two) in North Carolina that was showing it. The showtime was at 7:45 and when I told my friend Chad about it he ordered him up a ticket...
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
In 1996 we celebrated our INDEPENDENCE DAY
Today marks a pretty funny anniversary for me. You see, it was ten years ago yesterday – July 3rd, 1996 – that Independence Day premiered. Some theaters jumped the gun and had showings on the night of the 2nd, which is the date in the movie that all the action starts happening, but most people started seeing it on the 3rd and 4th. It was on July 4th that I saw it for the...
Monday, July 03, 2006
Ain't It Cool News is ten years old!
Ten years ago today, an Austin, Texas cinephile named Harry Knowles officially launched Ain't It Cool News. Say what you will of that site be you fan or detractor, it has more than made its mark on popular culture in the past deci-century. From the very beginning - heck I was there when Harry posted those pics from the Star Wars Special Editions on a plain blank page in March of '96 - this has been one of my very most visited websites. Spend some...
Saturday, July 01, 2006
SUPERMAN RETURNS to a world that's needed him for way too long
Superman Returns is a full-water baptism that finally and thoroughly washes away the reek and stench of the last two Superman movies while bringing the hero back to a pure, clean starting point.Now, for the elucidation...Finally caught Superman Returns today, in the good company of my wife Lisa, my friend Chad and his brother Brad. We saw it at the West End Cinema in Burlington:...
Avast ye scurvy mateys: the Pirate Party comes to the U.S.
You may have heard of the recent do-to about The Pirate Bay, a website that serves as a search engine to help you find torrented files for download (I've used it a few times to locate bootleg episodes of Doctor Who since we won't be getting new eps of that show here in America for awhile). Well the Pirate Bay got raided by the Swedish police and shut down for awhile, but...
Friday, June 30, 2006
Noah's Ark found, says team (and they even brought photos to prove it)
The World Net Daily site is getting slammed right now but here's part of the story that I was able to pull. Amazing... if true. The Ark has been "found" in about a dozen places stretching from Turkey to Afghanistan over the years, so I'm going to remain healthily skeptical until we know more for sure. But it's still fascinating to consider this might be the real thing:A 14-man crew that included evangelical apologist Josh McDowell says it returned...
Thursday, June 29, 2006
TRANSFORMERS teaser unfolds online
In 2003,the Beagle 2 Mars Roverwas launchedWe were told it crashedIts final transmissionwas classified top secretIt was the only warningwe would ever getThe Official Transformers movie website has the first "teaser" for next summer's movie. It's very slow to download (and it's in Flash video format which I would have much preferred it be Quicktime) but it looks great when...
Want to watch this week's MONDAY NIGHT LIVE that I produced?
Click here to watch this week's Monday Night Live (in Windows Media format), the first that I produced... featuring Yours Truly as the voice of "Greta" from the Bulgarian Institute of Standards and Technology. Thanks to Richard Moore (AKA "BillyBobMan") for hosting ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Tonight's serving from Netflix: MOTHER, JUGS & SPEED
I've seen this movie a few times already (and first wrote about it several months ago) but it's so darned funny I just had to put it on the Netflix queue. So tonight Lisa and I watched Mother, Jugs & Speed, the 1976 flick starring Bill Cosby, Raquel Welch and Harvey Keitel as staff members of a private ambulance company that breaks all the rules ("Everything in this place...
Darth Larry reviews SUPERMAN RETURNS
Haven't seen it yet (wish I could have caught the 10 o'clock showings last night 'cept I had a shift at the station) but Darth Larry - my oftentimes filmgoing companion and all-around nice guy - has a great review of Superman Returns up on his blog, in a style that can only be called his own. Makes me want to see this movie that much more. I'm probably going to see it sometime in the next few days, with Lisa and maybe a few other friends. I got...
