Happy Friday!  Wait, it isn’t Friday?  It’s Monday!?  Where’d my weekend go?  Oh . . . my kids.  Duh.  Need to start advance writing these things so I don’t get all temporally lost.  Anyway, today (tomorrow and Friday’s) blog, is on why I hate American Horror films.

So, recent discussion all over the place—from bad word choices of senators to discussion of the meaning of Holmes and Avatar—have gotten me thinking about the concept of messages.  What is a story supposed to say?  What did the author want it to say, and what did the author end up saying?  They aren’t always [...]

First, happy new year!  Anyway. So it has been the big thing lately for movies to be reboots or re-imaginings of already existing properties.  Either there are more books-to-movies being made or comics-to-movies or just redoing old movies new, the old phrase “originality is dead” has never seemed more true than at the theater these [...]

Administrivia: Sorry I’m a day late, have been ill with a bad head cold. So last night, I went and saw Where the Wild Things Are.  I’ll go ahead and say: yes, it is a very good movie.  Oddly enough, I never doubted that it would be,  and I honestly don’t know why.  After all, [...]

So, I watched Ponyo just recently.  Now, I do tend to enjoy Miyazaki work, but this was an instance that actually kind of fell flat.  Before I get to what fell flat, let me at least say what I did like (the complete opposite of what I want reviewers to do to me, but meh). [...]