Originally written and posted on March 23, 2009. The idea of “bro-mance,” a platonic relationship between male friends, is an idea that a lot of films have been dancing around recently, but has never quite so fully been explored since I Love You, Man. To be fair, a bro-mance usually forms the core of every [...]
Originally written and posted on February 23, 2009. “Our revenge will be to survive,” speaks Daniel Craig to his comrades about a third of the way through Defiance, a film that follows a camp of vagabond Jews forced out of comfort by the Nazis during WWII. It’s a line that no doubt would’ve had greater [...]
Originally written and posted on February 9, 2009. Neil Gaiman is a science fiction/fantasy author who has found great success as a screen writer in recent years with such films as Stardust, Beowulf, and now Coraline, the lattermost of which is a 3-D stop motion feature film helmed by Henry Selick, the silent man behind [...]
Originally written and posted on January 15, 2009. I don’t understand 24. It’s odd that I find myself confessing this fact, what with having watched every episode of every season and all, but there’s something inherently flawed in the design of the series. I dare say that 24 pioneered prime time television dramas that require [...]
Originally written and posted on August 17, 2010. Loathe as I am to admit it, I tend to watch an anomalous amount of reality television. Not the brand of reality television that involves washed up celebrities living in a mansion or sexy young folk living large on an island in the sun. No, my taste [...]