Category: Reviews

After-Movie-Conversations: The Huntsman: Winters War

Maybe it was a date, but above was the actual conversation I had with the girl after this movie.  Date or not, there was no follow-up. People really liked Charlize Theron’s Ravana in the Snow White and the Huntsman, but they were considerably less enthusiastic about Kristen Stewart’s Snow White.  Kind of amazing, then, that…

Judging Sequels: Norm Macdonald, Anna Kournikova, and The Matrix Trilogy

I remember, on more than one occassion, jumping to the defense of The Matrix: Reloaded.  Shitty title, yes, but people were talking about what a terrible movie it was — but it wasn’t terrible.  I liked to say that it was the Anna Kornikova of movies — Anna Kournikova was a great tennis player she…

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BAD MOVIES: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

Aside from bad acting, a stupid plot, bad dialogue, and bad pacing, the movie went on 40min longer than it should have.  It ended.  And then it kept going.  For 40 more minutes! It didn’t help that the best part of the movie was Wonder Woman, who isn’t featured in the title and only really…

BOOKS: Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury

I’d been holding onto this book for quite some time.  I’m fond of Bradbury — I enjoyed the Illustrated Man, the Martian Chronicles, and Fahrenheit 451.  But it was a 2012 Fringe show (Bookworm, by Corin Raymond) that got me to give him a more careful look, and which prompted me to read Something Wicked…