July 2010

What Hath I Wrought?

30 July 2010

Kanye Interrupts Helmet Xzibit Being Stalked By A Velociraptor Mountains Pizza (feat. Spots Perkins)

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Salt

30 July 2010

Salt is so well-made that you won’t realize how much sense it doesn’t make until about an hour after it’s over. This is, in part, because it’s amazingly fun and jam packed with stunningly orchestrated stunts and chases. It is also yet another case of a movie being elevated by having a cast (Angelina Jolie, [...]

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Five Thoughts On Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World

29 July 2010

1. For a movie that is about a guy fighting and killing hipsters, there were certainly a lot of hipsters packed into the theater. 2. Kieran Culkin as Wallace completely steals the movie. 3. It is remarkably faithful to the source material. Even in the third act, when significant changes are made for understandable reasons,  [...]

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Coming This Fall From SpikeTV

28 July 2010

Tune in next time on Deadliest Author for…NEAL STEPHENSON vs. DAN BROWN.

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The Most Important Announcement from San Diego Comic Con 2010

27 July 2010
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Mister Charles

26 July 2010

The following post contains commentary on Inception. As a matter of course, it contains spoilers. If you want to avoid spoilers (and I suggest you do), skip this one for now. Look at this cute animal picture.  For the rest of you, the post continues after the jump.

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The 2008 Baltimore Comic-Con Kingdom Comics Panel

22 July 2010

This is an article I wrote for Newsarama. They never ran the article, I assume because of how completely vapid this particular panel was.  Or because I omitted the ten minute rant that Ahmet Zappa went on about Thumbelina, the smallest horse in the world. “Kingdom Comics is about sucking the cute out of everything.” [...]

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The Passage

22 July 2010

I’ve been trying to write about The Passage for awhile, but when I try, I just end up saying “Oh, it’s pretty good,” or something.  It’s an epic book – it spans nearly a century, deals with an apocalyptic event that decimates the U.S. population, and combines eerie supernatural elements with a hard scientific rationale [...]

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Disturbing Behavior

20 July 2010

“The problem with America is mankind’s abject unwillingness to contribute to the delinquency of the young.” That’s what Nick Stahl shouts at a middle-aged man who refuses to buy him a case of beer in Disturbing Behavior, yet another variation on Red Scare paranoia horror from 1998 – the other notable being The Faculty, which [...]

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Comics I’m Buying This Week

14 July 2010

I may have skipped last week because I didn’t get into Comics on the Green until Saturday, but CIBTW is back! AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #637 – As much as I like Spidey from issue to issue anyway, there’s maybe one storyline a year that feels big and satisfying. Last year’s was New Ways To Die and [...]

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