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The Spring Can Be Tricky: A Review Of “Kinect Adventures”

The Spring Can Be Tricky: A Review Of “Kinect Adventures”

Okay. Okay. The Kinect. I finally bought one at Best Buy. The Best Buy guy was all, “You need to get the Geek Squad Black Tie..

June 8, 2011 with 0 Comments
Little Yarn Purses That Look Like Dragons: “Dragon Age II” Reviewed

Little Yarn Purses That Look Like Dragons: “Dragon Age II” Reviewed

In the first Dragon Age, you were literally saving the entire kingdom of Ferelden from a bunch of Darkspawn. You had to go around..

June 7, 2011 with 0 Comments

A Good Candidate For Understanding Love: A Review Of “Kung Fu Panda 2″

I was in a horrible mood watching Kung Fu Panda 2. This guy behind me wouldn’t stop kicking my seat. So I elbowed the seat whenever..

June 6, 2011 with 0 Comments

Then The Tiger Lost An Eye: “X-Men: First Class” Reviewed

James McAvoy is Professor X and and Michael Fassbender is Magneto. They are best friends! Mutant best friends. I remember my first best..

June 3, 2011 with 0 Comments

You’ve Never Been To The Dog Circus? A Review Of “Step Up 3D”

A curly haired kid named Moose is starting college at NYU. But there is a dance battle right there on campus! Moose can totally dance so..

June 1, 2011 with 0 Comments

You Don’t Even Want To See The King Of Diamonds: A Review Of “Bridesmaids”

Okay, so Bridesmaids. There was a baby in the theater. But he was a quiet baby. He only made baby noises once during the movie. Thank you,..

May 31, 2011 with 1 Comment

The Line Is Long At Trader Joe’s: “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” Reviewed

The other night I had a dream that Barack Obama and I were hanging out in my hometown library. It was really casual, because Obama had..

May 30, 2011 with 0 Comments

There Better Not Be Any Thistles: A Review Of “The Troll Hunter”

A bunch of Norwegian college students hear about an unauthorized bear killing so they double-time it to the scene of the bear crime. Is one..

May 26, 2011 with 0 Comments

Jam Your Hands in a Janitor’s Bucket: A Review of “I Am Number Four”

Alright- there’s nine alien teenagers on our planet and some other evil aliens want to kill them. IN NUMERIC ORDER. Gotta admire that..

May 25, 2011 with 0 Comments
A Beard Worth Stripping For! A Review of “Luther | Series 1″

A Beard Worth Stripping For! A Review of “Luther | Series 1″

Idris Elba is Detective Chief Inspector John Luther! In England, of course. It would be pretty posh if we had Detective Chief Inspectors..

May 24, 2011 with 0 Comments

That’s some pig! A review of the movie “The Descent”

So, a bunch of women are going caving in the Appalachian mountains. They treat it like a baby shower or a bachelorette party by getting..

May 21, 2011 with 2 Comments
Portal 2

Portal 2

I have no idea what to say about this game. If Portal 2 was a president, it would be Abraham Lincoln. Everybody already knows about Abraham..

May 11, 2011 with 0 Comments

Thor

So, Anthony Hopkins is Odin! He got stabbed in the eye by a Frost Giant. He wears a complicated eyepatch with little extra parts and stuff...

May 9, 2011 with 0 Comments

The Devil’s Art Director

As it turns out, the first season of The Twilight Zone from 1959 is not just good, it’s incredible. Nerds losing their glasses after..

April 29, 2011

Water for Elephants – Trailer

If there’s one thing circus movies love, it’s shots of tents getting set up. Hey you, hoist that tent! Now you guys hit this..

April 22, 2011 with 0 Comments

Pirates of the Caribbean : On Stranger Tides – Trailer

The barrel budget on this movie must be through the roof. The President of Disney is probably up all night, surrounded by bills from..

April 19, 2011 with 0 Comments

Born To Be Wild (Trailer)

I think it’s actually illegal now to have a movie about baby animals or endangered animals and not have Morgan Freeman do the voice..

April 18, 2011 with 0 Comments

The Fighter

Mark Wahlberg is a fighter! So is his brother Christian Bale. But Mark Wahlberg is a more muscular, healthier fighter. Like a 16-bit..

March 28, 2011 with 1 Comment

Hereafter

Matt Damon is a psychic who gave up psychic-ing to be a blue collar worker because he got sick of talking to dead people all the time...

March 23, 2011 with 0 Comments
A drawing of Isaac Clarke from Dead Space 2

A drawing of Isaac Clarke from Dead Space 2

This is Dead Space 2 hero Isaac Clarke with the Marker- a terrible space rock that turns humans into bloodthirsty screeching claw monsters...

March 22, 2011 with 0 Comments
Unstoppable

Unstoppable

Denzel Washington and Chris Pine are two train conductors (engineers?) and they are like, “Trains! Get that coal lined up! Put the..

March 17, 2011 with 0 Comments
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Shia LaBeouf is a Wall Street guy. But he’s a good Wall Street guy because he wants to help a scientist with his green solar magic..

March 9, 2011 with 0 Comments
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II

Hey, Starkiller is back! But he’s a clone. The real one is dead, I think? Darth Vader can’t get enough of this guy! If I had an..

March 7, 2011 with 0 Comments
Black Swan

Black Swan

Okay, Natalie Portman wants to be the Swan Queen in a big ballet production. You can tell this is a big deal ballet company, because they..

March 3, 2011 with 1 Comment
The King’s Speech

The King’s Speech

Colin Firth has a stuttering problem! Helena Bonham Carter has wavy hair and a doll’s face. And she’s married to the prince!..

February 16, 2011 with 0 Comments
Horses and dogs and fences

Horses and dogs and fences

Well, first of all, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say thank you to everyone who reached out to me regarding my essay on my..

February 7, 2011 with 0 Comments
Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2

Wow, I barely wrote anything at all last week. What was I doing? Eating ice cream. The whole time, just ice cream. Ice cream sounds good,..

January 23, 2011 with 0 Comments
The Other Guys

The Other Guys

Will Ferrell is an uptight cop and Mark Wahlberg is his partner. They find a British guy and he’s bad or something. Or shady. But..

January 17, 2011 with 1 Comment
Easy A

Easy A

In the movie Easy A, Emma Stone’s character lies about having sex with high school boys in exchange for gift cards. Phonetically, I..

January 14, 2011 with 0 Comments

The Town

Spoilers. Okay, here is my review of The Town. Ben Affleck’s impossibly handsome face robs some banks and Jon Hamm’s impossibly..

January 10, 2011 with 2 Comments

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West is about a criminal named Monkey with spiky bleached blonde hair and a bunch of muscles.  Also, red makeup..

January 3, 2011 with 0 Comments

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Train Your Dragon is about a bunch of vikings who kill dragons. And by vikings, I mean they have pointy hats and viking ships but..

December 31, 2010 with 2 Comments

Cyrus

I thought you all should know that I’m listening to “My Boo” by the Ghost Town DJ’s while I write this review..

December 27, 2010 with 2 Comments

Scrooged

If there was a kid in the year 1988 more excited than me about Scrooged, I’d like to meet the little son of a bitch. To shake his..

December 21, 2010 with 0 Comments
Full Dark, No Stars

Full Dark, No Stars

Okay, this book of short stories is supposed to be dark- even for Stephen King. That’s what reviews about Full Dark, No Stars are..

December 19, 2010 with 0 Comments

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Look, it’s aliens. This whole thing is aliens. I know you’re expecting something else, but here we are. Like..

December 15, 2010 with 1 Comment

How It’s Going So Far In Fallout: New Vegas

This game is half wasteland apocalypse and half Frank Sinatra’s Las Vegas, so there’s a lot of dust and neon signs. And ruined..

December 10, 2010 with 0 Comments

Minority Report

It’s the year 2054, iPhones are probably great, and a businessman is about to kill his wife for cheating on him. His wife is pretty..

December 6, 2010 with 1 Comment

Field of Dreams

Kevin Costner is a farmer who likes baseball and used to be a hippie. He even says so in the beginning of the movie. “I used to be a..

December 3, 2010 with 0 Comments

Bored to Death | Season 2

So I go home for Thanksgiving and my grandfather asks me to fix his DVD player. But that DVD player is never going to work again. Even the..

November 29, 2010 with 0 Comments

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1

This review contains mild spoilers. Well, now that Dumbledore is dead, Voldemort is having evil wizard parties. Doesn’t seem like..

November 26, 2010 with 1 Comment

How I Accidentally Strom Thurmond’ed My Baby in Fable III

So my Fable III guy is running around the Fable III world being the brother of the king doing stupid quests and tickling townsfolk and..

November 22, 2010 with 4 Comments

Men of a Certain Age | Season 1

Now- I would never tell a bondage porn company how to run their business, but it seems like a waste not to make a porn spoof of this show..

November 15, 2010 with 0 Comments

Winter’s Bone

Dogs everywhere heard the title of this movie and started wagging their tails. Sorry, cinema enjoying dogs. There are no dog bones in..

November 10, 2010 with 1 Comment

You Got To Go In Underground From The Side (Avatar)

I know one thing, this movie is the black-lightiest inside of a black light poster I ever did see. Tell me this, Avatar- what is it like..

November 8, 2010 with 0 Comments

The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me was directed by Michael Winterbottom. Which is crazy, because Winterbottom is clearly a bear’s name. Like a bear..

November 3, 2010 with 0 Comments

Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare

John Marston is hanging out with his family when his uncle comes in and bites his wife. CHOMP! Sounds like a Flannery O’Connor short..

November 1, 2010 with 0 Comments

Batman: Under the Red Hood

In Batman: Under the Red Hood, Batman tinkers around with the engine of his torch-red 67 Ford Mustang for an hour and a half. He’s..

October 27, 2010 with 1 Comment

TiMER

Emma Caulfield plays an orthodontist named Oona. More like ortho-hotness! I guess anyone who practices ortho-hotness isn’t recognized..

October 25, 2010 with 0 Comments

Mad Men | Season 4

This review contains spoilers. I hated the first few episodes of this season. I was even thinking of giving up on it. But then they showed..

October 20, 2010 with 0 Comments
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