This weekend, we went to go see BODIES: The Exhibition. It was creepy and interesting. But mostly, it was creepy. Maybe you’ve heard of it. It’s the one where they take actual dead humans, apply a mysterious technique called “polymer preservation” (which, from what I can tell and imagine, is something like pumping the corpse [...]
I’ve decided to enter an Oscar pool with three fellow bloggers (whom I actually know IRL): Justin, Susan, and Wife (whom I really know in IRL, IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN). Other than watching a butt-ton of movies I am pretty dull about them. I wouldn’t say I have a dearth of movie related [...]
RMSzero and I ventured out of the (relative) safety of the city limits to catch a flick at the Short Pump Move Complex. Aside: Isn’t it odd that when you live inside the city limits you feel more comfortable among bums and transvestitutes than rent-a-cops and soccer mom’s that insist on driving while chatting it [...]
Casablanca I loved this movie. I never realized how many famous lines came out of this film. ***** A Streetcar Named Desire Why aren’t movies magical anymore? ***** Kiss Kiss Bang Bang You had me at hello RDJr. **** Hotel Rwanda How did I miss this guy speaking at Chop Suey last year!? **** Fullmetal [...]
WTF AWESOME!? This morning I was, again, greeted by the cool pulsating glow of my best friend in the world Wii. “Oh shit!” I said, remembering that the Opera-made web browser was supposed to drop today. I’m not sure why I switched into a narrative right there, weird. Anyway as is custom with downloading crap [...]
I woke up this morning greeted by the pulsating blue glow of my Wii telling me that I had a message. Turns out it wasn’t midas sending me another Civil War general Mii, but it was Nintendo letting me know that the Forecast Channel was available for download! I’ve only had about five minutes to [...]
RVABlogs.com, in its infancy, was a dirty corner of the web filled with local political hacks pointing their grubby little fingers at each other. Today a cadre of lady bloggers regularly pound out some serious quality blogs. Over the past year the site has doubled in popularity — which means more ladies AWWWW YEAH!!! Last [...]
The Royal Tenenbaums I’m late to the whole Wes Anderson thing, but better late than never right? I mean, who is your favorite in this movie? Everyone turns in a stellar performance. ***** Delicatessen Amelie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet shows us why you can’t ever trust French people. They may just eat you. **** Borat Should [...]
The Birth of a Nation Pretty watchable considering it is: from in 1915, a silent movie, three hours long, full of actors in black face, and generally praises the KKK. Rating: *** Moulin Rouge! I’m pretty sure this movie blew my mind. I did have to watch it in four sittings, whatever that means. Secretly [...]
Some Like It Hot A great member of the Cross Dressing Comedy; personally my favorite Genre. Plus Tony Curtis does this awesome impression of Cary Grant and it is hilarious. Rating: **** Promises Its like kids say the darndest things, but these kids all have racist parents. Good in a sad way though. Rating: **** [...]
Usually when I read a book, the book world exists only within the covers of the book. Even super-compelling book worlds, like Middle Earth, while fully realized, don’t make me think I could literally go there. About 90% of the way through Infinite Jest, I realized it was a whole different sort of book world. [...]
I don’t know how you can resist a movie with a tagline like See Saw, I certainly couldn’t (at least I couldn’t resist it on Netflix). You have to have some major marketing cajones to go to press with such a succinctly punny tag. MY HAT IS OFF TO YOU LION’S GATE. Saw is intense, [...]
On Monday, Maura and I finally got out to see An Inconvenient Truth up at Potomac Mills with our good friends Jon and Ingrid. They are soon to be moving out to California, where Jon is going to study for his PhD in Oceanography, so they were excellent people to go see this particular movie [...]
This weekend I Netflix’d the Garbage Pail Kids Movie — it was something else. My mother never allowed me to own/purchase Garpage Pail Kids cards or see the movie. Now that I am released from her tyrannical iron fisted rule, I thought I would show her what for and watch the movie anyway. Let me [...]
So here is Dune, by Frank Herbert. It’s a verifiable classic of Science Fiction writing, it spawned a movie which is a classic of Science Fiction filmmaking, and I found a battered old copy of it at the by now famous Fredericksburg Library Booksale. It has a picture of Monument Valley on the spine. Don’t [...]