My Movie Reviews on Counterpunch

... my slow but steady plan to get organized about my movie writing, I have catalogued all my Counterpunch reviews and alphabetized them by title. I will update this post as I publish more and make a link ...). Then I'll get back to full speed movie writing once again. Looking over all the Counterpunch reviews I've written totally inspired me to write MORE about movies. Damn I love to write about movies...

virtual film festival: Curry and Chips*: the South Asian Experience of the UK

Book review: Prep

Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld Freshman year, high school. Hailing from South Bend, Indiana, Lee Fiora is starting her first year at Ault, one of New England’s most exclusive boarding schools, but it might as well be a foreign country. Though money, class, and race are never spoken of openly on Ault’s spacious and leafy campus, it can be found everywhere to Lee: in her classmates’ luxury ...

Sarah Jane Adventures - Rank The Stories!

This is my ranking of the six stories from Series 3, from best to worst: 1. The Mad Woman in the Attic 2. The Eternity Trap 3. The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith 4. Mona Lisa's Revenge 5. The Gift 6. Prisoner of the Judoon How would you rank them? Here's my review of season closer "The Gift" , with plenty of references to Boom Town, The Unquiet Dead, The Christmas Invasion, The Family of Blood...

Review: Lady GaGa - The Fame Monster

Artist: Lady GaGa Album: The Fame Monster Year: 2009 Genre: Dance, electronic, pop Rating: 8 out of 10 / A- The Fame Monster was originally going to be part of a 2-disc re-release of Lady GaGa's debut album The Fame . GaGa decided to offer Monster as a separate album as well as in the 2-disc package, and it was a very wise decision. An improvement in virtually every way from her...

Kevin Smith Blu Ray Boxed Set

Reviewed. Some more personal thoughts: These are not germane to the review and I'm including these comments outside the FlickDirect cut-tags because I wanted to comment on my reaction to the movies and not simply include it in the review of the boxed set. I've determined, after watching the shows, that I'm just not a Kevin Smith fan. I do appreciate his talent--and his unique voice. I ...

Movie Reviews - 2012 and Paranormal Activity

2012 is billed as a disaster movie based on the idea that the world is going to end when the Mayan calendar 'runs out'. The disaster visuals are amazing, huge swaths of earth are destroyed by earthquake and water. Shit blows the fuck up. The dialogue, the plot, and everything is absolutely terrible . My friend and I found ourselves guffawing through most of the movie at the absolute absurdity ...

You Don't Mess With Mako, Mother Fucker.

Hoooo boy. A thousand curses upon you shadowravyn for giving me yet another damned way to waste my time... From the pure deeeelight of Nostalgia Chick (the Transformers (1986) , Armageddon , and Last Unicorn reviews are hella fun), I had to see this other dude, this this this "That Guy With The Glasses" fellow. And his review of Red Sonja . Not only is there a spot on review of a ...

Theatre review: Public Property

... to be no chance of burying the story so instead it's a case of how best to salvage it and maybe even turn it to their advantage - especially as Geoffrey's autobiography has recently had disastrous reviews, perhaps they can test the "all publicity is good publicity" maxim to its limit. The show's main strength is its humour - Jackson has lots of very funny, snappy lines and an experienced cast ...

Aah, the coffee shop dream

... had his mail delivered to Café Central. The arrangement was hardly idyllic. The Jung Wieners steadily went through a limited pool of girlfriends and came to blows with each other over reviews. Yet out of the friction came the kind of humanist thought that still reverberates throughout literature, design, philosophy, even architecture. And once again, a cosmopolitan, slightly alienated attitude ...