Archive for the ‘RANTS & REVIEWS’ Category

A Not So Dangerous Movie

I had the opportunity to attend the Los Angeles premiere of David Cronenberg’s new film, A Dangerous Method, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. Unfortunately, none of the stars made the trip due to other engagements, but Cronenberg and his producing partner, Jeremy Thomas, introduced the film, and a few celeb […]

Snider on Snyder’s IMMORTALS

Starring: Henry Cavill, Stephen Dorff, Luke Evans, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, Joseph Morgan, Freida Pinto, Mickey Rourke, Daniel Sharman. Directed by: Tarsem Singh Release Date: November 11, 2011 The upcoming sequel/prequel to Zach Snyder’s, 300: Battle of Artemisia, The Immortals, is described by director Tarsem Singh as “Caravaggio meets Fight Club.” Theseus is a mortal man […]

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I See Dead People

I promise this is not about baseball.  For those who have zero interest in sports, please bear with me for four sentences.  Middle relief pitchers are undervalued.  There is this absurd belief that the ninth inning is somehow more important than the sixth, when in reality the question of whether to use your best pitcher […]

Ain’t Nothing Like The Real THING Baby…

The Thing – alien depression, yet again. I saw the newest installment of The Thing on Sunday and much like a Twin Bing does, it fell short. If you have ever eaten on of those pink balls of hell, you know what I speak of. The 2011 The Thing was CGI and CGI creatures are […]

The Best Hour and a Half on Television!

In this critic’s opinion, I must say that the end of the HBO’s series Entourage was very depressing.  All be it, the show’s last episode was it’s best, even if the men’s version of Sex In The City was cut way too short.

That Hurt.

Brad Pitt is a movie star.  Brad Pitt has, on at least once occasion, worn a sweater[1].  That is the extent of my personal knowledge of Brad Pitt, but it does not even begin to adequately reveal the man’s nature in any real sense, nor even within the media-created identity that is presented to us.  It’s […]

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THE THING, a Prequel or a Sequel?

By John Delia Fans of the film The Thing (1982) beware; even though the movie takes you back to the Norwegian outpost providing a beginning to John Carpenter’s film with the same title, this one may as well have been a remake.  Those that have never seen Carpenter’s masterpiece however, will get all the chills […]

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