Kick Ass is a pretty fun movie.  I enjoyed it.

That's all you really need from a review, right?  Whether, according to the reviewer, it's worth seeing?  I guess I could write substantial guidelines by which you can determine whether you, personally, will like it, but--Actually, that's a really good idea.

You will like Kick-Ass if you like violent ( Read more... )

So, I'm now four days away from leaving Toronto for more or less good.  Feelings are mixed; I've got some great friends here now, and it is in many ways an ideal city, but it's time for me not to be the token American anymore, and to push on with living my life.  So, this post is, in part, a semi-tearful farewell to my Canadian audience.  Live nice ( Read more... )

Hey, just an updatory post about my life at the moment. Probably won't make for great reading, but it should be nice for my various stalkers, who may or may not have had aneurysms trying to decipher my Bizarro post. I was going to do exclusively those forever on here, but figured I should try to be unambiguous and relatively somber for reasons that ( Read more... )

Have left Toronto for four unmonths. Am not leave classes to unfinish degree by beginning of summer. Am definitely undone then--am not have to take more somehow earlier ( Read more... )

Hey campers. If you're following this and not http://artistwanted.livejournal.com, you're a dumb, because I don't really update this anymore, and I post a little snippet of something or other for my own amusement in the other every day. As my loyal readers over there already know, on Friday ( Read more... )

I know that it's common for people to proclaim their love of recently deceased celebrities, and normally I'm the first person to get irritated with exaggerated reverence for the dead. But I am being honest when I say that my favorite character on Angel, one of my favorite shows, was Lorne, the green Karaoke demon who could tell a person's future ( Read more... )

Okay, I know none of you are probably particularly interested, but I cannot remain silent on this. This is a video game that has received near universal acclaim, and it's one of the worst video games I've ever played. The central problem being that it is hardly a video game at all ( Read more... )

So I just saw it again, on my own with the full popcorn treatment, and I liked it way better. I guess having seen it before meant that I was watching it more with an eye towards its own merits, rather than just waiting to see how close it would be to the books ( Read more... )

I went into Watchmen with pretty well-managed expectations. I knew I was going to see a Zach Snyder movie, and I also had it well in mind that the movie does not preclude me from enjoying the book. The long and short is, I liked it a lot. I was sitting happily all the way through, enjoying moving pitcher versions of some of the most powerful ( Read more... )

I got linked for the second time today to a thing about some University of Central Florida professor who makes his living "debunking" myths like vampires and zombies, which I think is a really stupid thing to do. It's like standing up at a magic show and shouting out how all the tricks are done. Yeah, there's no such things as vampires, but there ( Read more... )