Category: Movies
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The Three Christmas Movies
So how many Christmas movie plots are there really? Â As my wife watches all the Hallmark/ABC Family/etc. I realize there may only be three (this doesn’t include animated specials). Â Let’s see: 1. Â A Christmas Carol – Remade dozens of times, starring Captain Picard, starring Alistair Sim, starring Muppets, starring Mickey, starring Bill Murray, sort of…
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Friday Finds – LOTR and Star Wars
Hey, it’s been a while.  Vacations, children, car shopping, attending Sabres games in the press box, all take a toll on my time.  Onto the posts! The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim First Impressions – Oh yeah, this has a lot to do with the lack of regular content too. Skyrim Stories – The Shakiest Swordarm…
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Ender’s Game News – Ben Kingsley and Hollywood Whitewashing
Some notes:Â This post has some plot details of Ender’s Game: The Book, so if you haven’t read it (and WHY NOT) read the rest of this at your own risk. I hesitate to even write this, as Orson Scott Card’s books were a pretty fundamental part of my childhood, after I read my brother’s…
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Best Animated Film 2011 – Which Should Be Nominated?
As seen at Slashfilm, there will be at least 18 eligible animated movies to get Oscar nominations this year, which means there could be 5 nominees in the category. I’ve actually seen most of them, aside from the four foreign ones and the ones releasing in the next few weeks. With Pixar’s only entry the…
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Friday Finds – Kung Fu and Carmen Sandiego
Well, it was a busy week for me, though most of the creative juices were used at the Sabres site I run. They had a rough week, what can I say? Still, I got OGT out, and it’s one of my all time favorites, River City Ransom. Check it out if you haven’t yet. On…
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Friday Finds – War Machine and The Hobbit
Happy Friday, all! I’m getting back in the swing of things so got some posts down this week. Not sure how many I’ll manage for next week, though, as I’m planning to fire up River City Ransom for OGT. Might just nerd-snipe myself into oblivion there, love that game. Anyway, this week’s posts: Kid Movie…
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Kid Movie Reviews – Coraline
I finally got to see Coraline last night, on TV even though I have a DVD copy, and enjoyed it immensely. If you are not familiar with it (or the Neil Gaiman book it is based on), Coraline Jones is an 11 year old girl who craves her parents’ attention. Especially since they just moved…
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Friday Finds – Vicious Krakens
I’ve been seriously sick pretty much all week, so there isn’t much this week. Hope to recover over the weekend so I can get back after it. NaNoWriMo? Should I subject myself to this again? – Apparently so. Movie Review – Real Steel – Quite entertaining. Links: Krakens be crazy. Flying power generation, very cool.…
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Movie Review – Real Steel
I took my son with me to see Real Steel last night. Much like Rise of the Planet of the Apes, this was a movie that hit my radar late. I mean, I knew about it, and probably made the jokes everyone else made about Rock’em Sock’em Robots. It wasn’t until reviews started to come…
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Friday Finds – Downy Canadian Dinosaurs and Colliding Galaxies
Hey everybody, hope you had a fun week. Here’s the posts from this week: Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D – Time did seem to stretch out before me in this, for sure. Old Game Tuesday – Civilization II – *snore* – Huh, what? I wasn’t sleeping after staying…
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Movie Review: Spy Kids: All the Time in the World in 4D
You can file this under “Movies Mike saw so you don’t have to”. I had a pair of Fandango passes that had to be used by Friday, and this was pretty much the only movie left in theaters that was age appropriate. ‘Appropriate’ might actually be a stretch, as vomit/fart/poop laden ‘comedy’ isn’t really appropriate…