Bowling for ‘Less than Ten’ Dollars
Mad shouts out! We’re pleased as punch to know that some old Charleston friends are in the heeeeouse. In other, way more mundane news, while Liz was attending school this week I got a chance to tutor myself on some very basic PHP and MySQL, a feat that was impossible to do on a Mac [...]
Searching for Harry Plotter
Just to make sure I wasn’t missing out on all the hype that’s mystifying the rest of the world, I went to see Harry Potter this weekend with Liz . What I discovered was that I’m far more out of touch then I ever suspected. After two hours of what could only be considered “character [...]
From Hell
We recently got a chance to see the movie adaptation of Alan Moore‘s Victorian tale of Jack the Ripper, From Hell. Comic Book aficionados will certainly rembember Moore’s legendary achievement of the mid-80′s, Watchmen, a veritable staple in the Postmodern comic book genre that has reached well-deserved cult status. As for the movie, I don’t [...]
Thrown Into Withdrawal
Who ‘da thought that a movie about a Coney Island junkie and his speed freakin’ mom would be so compelling to watch, and so intensely breathtaking at the same time. I’m talking about none other then Requiem for a Dream, the sophisticatedly stylish movie adaptation of the novel by Hubert Selby, Jr. This movie, while [...]
High Time on DVD
I have got to say that Almost Famous, a comedy which chronicles the journalistic travels of a young Rolling Stone reporter, is a well executed and entertaining movie that’s full of laughs, even if it’s senseless 70′s nostalgia. Having only rented it because I thought it was something Liz would not want to see (she’s [...]
