Paul Newman passed away Friday.  I make no bones in my proclamation that Cool Hand Luke is the finest bit of cinema ever produced.  That’s not my opinion, that’s pure fact.  It’s a fact like the sun comes up in the East, like the Earth is round, and like Jesus loved everything, especially the dinosaurs.
Paul [...]

I watched I Am Legend with my lovely wife the other night.  LAME.  It had the feel of a much longer and much better movie that got edited into goofiness.  I think to have done it well it would have had to have been a trilogy.  I guess Will Smith doesn’t do trilogies.
The internal inconsistencies [...]

Good movie, in a beautifully badass sort of way.  The visuals are absolutely stunning.  The fights are magnificent bits of violent ballet.  The evil things are either hideous to the point of making you want to avert your eyes or beautiful to the point of not being able to.
The story, well, the story is pretty [...]

My lovely wife and I went out this weekend on a little date.  During said date, we went to the movies and saw Tyler Perry’s Daddy’s Little Girls.
I have to admit having a few reservations about going to see a Tyler Perry movie.  If you don’t recognize the name, he is the cat with the [...]

The 03/31/06 episode of The Chair and Automan is out. Download the MP3 directly here. Or better yet, get a podcatching client and subscribe to this podcast here. Or check out my Odeo channel.
In this episode:
I understand that I sound like I’m in a can. I’m trying to fix [...]

I can’t wait until we go see the movie coming out called Something New.
Mainly because my wife is driving me nuts about it. She has already announced that it is going to be an instant classic and that it will be in her top movies of all time. This after having seen a [...]

As kind of a take-off of this post by John Rogers and because I was recently discussing this topic with my wife, here are my picks of the 10 movies I would show someone to try and explain what america is. In fact here is the quote:
The challenge is:
Explain America to someone from somewhere [...]

I can’t imagine wanting to see a movie less than I want to see Hostel. It’s bad enough that most “horror” movies now run to the edge of fetish-ness (is that a word?), but lord who wants to go see a snuff film. I mean, besides the sickos out there.
All I can think [...]

Today is the last day of my dreaded Suncom/AT&T contract. I would like to commemorate the moment with a few lines from the greatest movie ever, Cool Hand Luke:
Boss: Sorry, Luke. I’m just doing my job. You gotta appreciate that.
Luke: Nah – calling it your job don’t make it right, Boss.
Goodbye Suncom. [...]

During my time off I have watched more TV than I had in the previous four or five years, combined (excluding baseball games). And one thing stands out: it really sucks. I can’t stand most TV shows so I watch mostly movies. Even most of those are for idiots.
Another (un)interesting thing is [...]