Too Dark. Too long. Too fast. Too pretentious. Too loud. Too many characters. Too much steady cam. Too little substance. Too little fun. The whole world has lost its mind. Heath was great, although the role was completely over the top and didn’t call for any subtlety of performance. And his commitment to method acting [...]

“Remember this, never forget it, you’re just a piece of meat.”(1950′s studio boss Harry Cohn, to actress Kim Novak) P.S. Think that is terrible? So do we. Checks here.

“We want a story that starts out with an earthquakeand works its way up to a climax.” Samuel Goldwyn

I know it’s brilliant. I just don’t know exactly what it is. I know what it isn’t: a kids movie. It’s too cynical. And too foreboding. I say this as someone who thinks Bambi/Lion King style tragedies are good for kids. Wall-E is different than these in that it is on many levels like a [...]

Here is a link to a partial transcript of an interview I did with friend Tony Rossi for The Christopher Closeup podcasts. A nice chunk of the interview was all about my favorite TV show, the freshly re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (2003) on the Sci-Fi Channel. Tony is also an unabashed fan of the show, so [...]

Back in March I was interviewed for the online version of the magazine of Catholic United for the Faith, which is called “Lay Witness.” In opening the stack of mail waiting for me back at the Act One offices, I just found a letter from the magazine telling me that the interview is posted here. [...]

Here is a snip from Daily Variety’s review today of Journey to the Center of the Earth the latest classic work to apparently be rendered banal by Walden Media. “What Journey to the Center of the Earth emphasizes is how technology ends up dictating content: Helmer Brevig [note from Barb: "helmer" is Tinseltown speak for [...]

I just have to ask. Why, oh why, America, did so many of you watch ABS’c latest summer entertainment for the brain dead, the idiocy-fest Wipeout? It was the biggest summer premiere for the network in the last three years. Which means we will now see many similarly themed, but probably not as stunningly produced [...]

“I find most people know what a good story is – until they sit down to write one.” Flannery O’Connor

So, we can take for granted that somewhere out there in Tinseltown, some Machiavellian studio executive has a collection of really rare original Incredible Hulk comic books. He had his people buy them up back in the early 90′s when the comic book movie thing had hit really big, and he was sure that cornering [...]

Cyber-friend and frequently sympatico movie critic Dirty Harry (formerly of Libertas) has a new blog all his own here. You have to love a guy whose mission statement is the following: To what extent this site can, we will promote, aid, and encourage those in the entertainment community doing right by liberty and America. To [...]

So, Wednesday night I attended the ultimate BSG nerddom event with my friends Vicki and Mark (the foolish advocate of lost cause animated panda movies…) It was the Emmy voters screening of Battlestar Galactica‘s “For your consideration” episode – which happens to be the mid-season finale airing tonight, “Revelations.” The showrunner, Ron Moore, actually had [...]

This made me laugh today. And I really needed it. Thanks CMR!

(Sorry, but you have to give me a couple stars for just how clever that heading is.) I saw this film on its opening Friday a couple weeks ago, and have been wanting to blog about it ever since. I was going to post a mostly positive blog, but then I started reading a lot [...]