Movies

Elsewhere: Saw 3D

25 October 2010

At Comic Con, I got a chance to do a roundtable interview with the cast of Saw 3D. You can read their thoughts on the legacy of the horror franchise and the 3D filming process over at Film Buff Online.

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Elsewhere

19 October 2010

I talk about the Solomon Kane movie over at Bloody Good Horror. And of course, I review comics with some of my friends at Floppytown.  Today, for instance, I say, “Darkseid’s revenge for Batman shooting him with a god-killing time bullet is to turn Batman into a time bullet that will destroy the universe and [...]

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On Comic Con

13 October 2010

1. I go to New York Comic Con every year – have gone as long as there has been one – and I think it’s great to be in one place with a lot of people who are passionate about the things that you’re passionate about in an environment where you can celebrate that stuff, [...]

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Case 39

4 October 2010

Read my review here. Synopsis: it wasn’t very good.

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Resident Evil: Afterlife

23 September 2010

Today at Bloody Good Horror, I try to cultivate value from 97 wasted minutes of my life.

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Five Implausible Urban Legends To Base Your New Horror Movie On

20 September 2010

1. Chewing gum is not fully digested for seven years. 2. All conversations in a room stop or pause at 20 minutes after the hour. 3. A statue of St. Joseph will grant speedy progress on property transactions. 4. Vengeful spirits murder anyone who doesn’t retweet them. 5. Sesame Street is replacing Cookie Monster with [...]

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Elsewhere

15 September 2010

Those of you who skip over my posts about horror movies will be happy to know that I’ve landed a gig reviewing movies at BloodyGoodHorror.com.  My first post is a review of the 2005 flick Cry_Wolf.  Read it here.

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My Soul To Take

25 August 2010

I’m hoping really hard for Wes Craven’s My Soul To Take. Craven is a masterful director and, his novel Fountain Society aside, has always been a solid writer, though his best work will probably stand as his collaboration with Kevin Williamson on the Scream saga (and he gets bonus points for co-writing Alex Aja’s remake [...]

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Expendables 2

18 August 2010

To really make a sequel to The Expendables work, you need to go back to the visceral premise that got people out to see the first one and either make it bigger or deliver on it better. If you’re going to make a sequel to The Expendables, you have to pit Sylvester Stallone’s team of [...]

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Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Box Office

16 August 2010

I’d ask why geeks need so much damn validation, but I think we all know the answer to that is ‘because we never got any validation back when we were in high school’ or whatever. Or is it that we’ve begun to believe the asinine hype that we read in trash magazines and online about [...]

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