Three female superheroes
I've encountered three new and interesting superhero comics featuring female protagonists in the past two months. I hope to post...
Archive for Reviews
Stranger Here, and Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace
Yesterday, I read Jen Larsen's newly released memoir Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My...
Review: Valentine’s Day (the movie)
If you're looking for an intertwining-plot-threads fun sweet romantic comedy to watch on Valentine's Day, you could do worse than...
Les Miserables Calmes
(Can you tell I still don't speak French?) I finally went to see the movie of Les Miz the other...
Unstrung Heroes
I first saw the 1995 movie Unstrung Heroes in late 1996, and I liked it a lot. I bought it...
Catchup
Wow, it’s apparently been two weeks since I posted here. FOGcon was good. It was great to get some time...
Imagine Me & You
A couple weeks ago, I somehow happened across a mention of a 2005 movie I had never heard of: Imagine...
2011 movies
I watched 41 movies in 2011, including 8 that I had seen before. (I rarely rewatch movies, but I've been...
My first Kindle
The latest generation of the Kindle—not the Kindle Fire, not the Kindle Touch, just the plain old Kindle—finally has the...
Review: Drive
Saw Drive on Tuesday night. What a mistake that was. I ended up writing a rather long discussion of it,...
Person of Interest and the total surveillance society
Yesterday, I watched the pilot of the new CBS show Person of Interest. It's pretty good in a variety of...
Captain America
Finally saw Captain America tonight, and enjoyed it quite a bit. Not by any means a Great Film. But fun,...