Movies

Back in the 1980s, I used to go see the Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue. I wasn't one of those people who went every weekend, but I probably saw it maybe a dozen times.In case you're wondering, no, I didn't dress up. There wasn't any single character I wanted to be. My personality was pretty much Brad, but my body type ran more to Eddie. … [Read more...] about The Late Night Double Feature Picture Show

One of the stories going around this week was that several black celebrities -- including Spike Lee, Will Smith, and Jada Pinkett Smith -- had announced they would not be attending the Academy Awards ceremony this year in protest of the lack of black acting nominees. Or as director Spike Lee put it in his oddly-capitalized Instagram rant: How Is It Possible For The 2nd … [Read more...] about A Little Oscar Math

So there's another Terminator film in the works, scheduled for next summer. I want it to be awesome, but I'm not expecting much. From what I gather, the impetus to make the film was that the company that made the last one went belly up and somebody ended up with the rights and figured they'd better do something with them, and Arnold's available again, so what the hell, let's … [Read more...] about The Wrong Terminator

I'm not sure whether I'm going to see the new Ender's Game movie.I'm not alone in facing this decision. The big-budget movie is based on the much beloved science fiction book of the same name, which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. However, a lot of people are reluctant to see it because its author, Orson Scott Card, has in later years turned out to be something of a … [Read more...] about Ender’s Game…Meh

Zero Dark Thirty is a terrific spy thriller.Almost nobody mentions that. Everybody talks about the controversial issues raised by Catherine Bigelow's new movie about the hunt for Osama bin Laden -- the use of torture, the slam at criminal defense lawyers -- but if you can set aside your differences with the politics of the characters (and by extension, the filmmakers) Zero … [Read more...] about Zero Dark Thirty – Short Review