BEOWULF



John Malkovich, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Angelina Jolie. Hmmmmmmmmm.......

Labels: fun, movies, myth, youtube

  ¶ 8:32 PM 3 comments

  300 REVISITED



Lexington Green sent me this impressive essay on 300 in the Michigan War Studies Review. If you liked the movie, give it a look.

Insanely busy these past few days.....

Labels: 300, frank miller, lexington green, movies

  ¶ 4:16 PM 4 comments

  300 REVISITED



The DVD release cometh....



ADDENDUM:

"And Then We Will Fight In The Shade" -review of 300 at Chicago Boyz

Labels: 300, movies, recommended viewing

  ¶ 8:25 PM 4 comments

  RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER



Going to take the kiddies to see this one on Saturday or Sunday. I'm wondering how the movie handles the world-devouring Galactus that I remember from my childhood of thumbing through Marvel comic books.

It occurred to me that Stan Lee ( along with the late sci-fi writer, Philip K. Dick, another example)may go down as one of the great, unintentionally prolific, screenplay writers.

Labels: Marvel, movies, personal

  ¶ 10:27 AM 1 comments

  BEWARE THE MAN IN BLACK



Took the kids to see Spiderman III which had great potential and some high points but frittered it's energies away on too many villains, jumbled plotlines and a multitude of character vignettes crammed in to an overly long film. The drift toward campy humor, while amusing, indicatesdthe series needs to take a good, long, rest before it starts to resemble "Predator vs. Alien" or "ROCKY IX: THE PROSTATE SURGERY".

Even the young Son of Zenpundit, who lives, eats, breathes and sleeps all things Spider-Man, had enough by about the first hour and a half.

Labels: movies

  ¶ 9:27 PM 0 comments

  LONG LIVE THE KING



Outstanding performance by Forrest Whittaker in his interpretation of the devious, charming, sociopathic, brutally murderous General Idi Amin Dada's descent into paranoia and state terror.

Labels: africa, dictator, movies, uganda

  ¶ 9:22 AM 2 comments

  2007: YEAR OF THE GUY MOVIE

First, Frank Miller's 300 was a smash hit over the fierce objections of the chick-flick Left. Now, Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse is coming.

Labels: 300, frank miller, grindhouse, movies, quentin tarantino, robert rodriguez

  ¶ 7:29 PM 4 comments

  300



My review of Frank Miller's 300 - " Then we will fight in the shade" - is posted at Chicago Boyz.

Labels: 300, chicago boyz, frank miller, history, movies, spartans

  ¶ 8:21 PM 6 comments

  THE DEPARTED



I watched "The Departed" last night, which was generally excellent, if a tad long with an entirely unmemorable and wooden love interest. The plot twists nicely for a gangster film and Jack Nicholson gives an adeptly understated performance as Frank Costello, a character based on the real-life Irish mob boss of Boston's Winter Hill Gang, the notorious James J. " Whitey" Bulger, who like Costello, was both casually murderous and a protected informant of the FBI. Matt Damon is out-acted by Leonardo DiCaprio in their joint scenes, but as neither of them will ever be confused with Sir Laurence Olivier, that really doesn't matter much.

Worth the price of a movie rental.

Labels: boston, mob, movies

  ¶ 7:01 AM 11 comments

  300

Or watch it here:



This is very cool. Frank Miller rules.

Labels: 300, frank miller, movies, spartans

  ¶ 6:11 PM 13 comments

  NON-SERIOUS POST DEDICATED TO PHILOSOPHICAL VILLAINS EVERYWHERE

So...this is that YouTube nonsense that entertains the internet masses....

Labels: fun, matrix, movies

  ¶ 7:31 PM 0 comments