Just finished watching Tokyo! (2008). Had to watch it with Michel Gondry being one of the three directors of this slightly bizarre film, but surprisingly his short film of the three wasn’t my favorite. Gondry’s film “Interior Design” certainly made me feel more in touch with Japan, but it gets really strange near the end [...]

This summer we’ve gotten robots in the form of Terminators and Transformers, both equally crappy (though Transformers wins with spectacle). But I have hope that the streak of robot crap will end with District 9. From the guy that was going to do the Halo movie, we get this documentary style story about aliens being [...]

I hated the original Transformers solely because there was so little interaction between the actual robots themselves, but after rewatching it before going in to the sequel, it was a lot more enjoyable than I remembered. And now that I’ve seen Revenge of the Fallen, suddenly the first one is like a work of art. [...]

Got the Princess Bride and Princess Monoke from Netflix. Figured that I might as well group the two together to give myself a nice theme to my movie watching. Both movies I’ve heard great things about, one being a movie I was turned off by because of the title (Princess Bride does not equal Princess [...]

After a recommendation (and miscommunication) from a co-worker, I decided to check out the film Ed Wood (1994) . At first, I thought I was being told that Ed Wood was the worst film ever made by the worst director ever, but instead it’s a great film about the worst director ever (though one holds [...]