How Zombies Ate My Christmas
Forget traditional Christmas movies like "Miracle On 34th Street." Put all memories of "The Great Escape" aside. Even the umpteenth rerun of Bond cannot defeat the new holiday season favourite: the...
Category: Film and movies
The new G.I. Joe movie: a tantalizing preview
These days, it’s hardly worth waking up on Saturday morning, unless you somehow crave 30 minutes of nausea-inducing lights, screeching, and creepily bug-eyed characters. I’ve seen the animated...
Diddy and Bond: a match made in the pits of hell
Sean Combs is mystifying. He has gone through an evolution of names, from “Puff Daddy,” to “P.Diddy,” to just “Diddy.” Why he hasn’t completed the logical progression and started...
From Achilles to Shia LaBeouf, the kickass version of John Cusack
Socrates wrote, “Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.” If this is the case then we should want to know who is wearing the perfume and what deeds have they performed heroically. Not really a...
In memory of Paul Newman
Paul Newman is dead. He died of lung cancer at age 83, at his home in Connecticut. He is survived by his wife, five children, and two grandchildren. He was one of the last of the great old stars, the...
A-list actors hug polar bears; world is saved (not really)
I find celebrities just a little presumptuous. Not all celebrities, really - mostly just the A-list actors. What bothers me isn’t their posturing, their preening, or their living in giant houses...
I believe in the Joker (while “The Dark Knight” rakes in the profit)
Unless you are just now joining civilization, you may have heard of a little film called "Batman: The Dark Knight." It is not the first Batman film, of course; the popular character from the comic...
Cold War revisited: “Red Dawn”
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. Director, screenwriter, and producer John Milius has...
Cold War revisited: “The Thing”
As certain factions speculate that the world is headed toward a new Cold War, Mark Farnsworth examines the artistic legacy of this phenomenon. "The Thing" is the darkest film in the Kurt Russell...
The epic abomination of “Sex and the City”
When challenged to use the word horticulture in a sentence the writer, poet, and critic Dorothy Parker retorted, “You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think.” Parker, the...