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damnit, I'm sober and I can't fall asleep
I've mostly refrained from posting about mainstream movies...
but here goes
Mr. Brooks - Kevin Costner movies have been a dirty little secret guilty vice for me. I'll harangue his films in public but I haven't been disappointed, yet (Prince of Thieves & Waterworld, I'm looking at you with a smile on my face) Perhaps Mr. Brooks vindicates my guilt ( Read more... ) -
Jerome Bixby's The Man from Earth
Verdict: Definitely worth the 90 minutes ( Read more... ) -
grr
I'm a pathetic twit. -
Social Capital From Being A Scientimagicisomething.
In conversation:
So this BCG (I can't remember, it's a hormone for inducing ovulation in frogs, so you can force breed them), is it recombinant or an extract from something?
It's from urine.
Frog urine? That must be the worst job ever, squeezing urine from frogs.
Human urine
What?!
Back in the day, they had women who thought that they might ( Read more... ) -
Natural City
I picked up a copy of Natural City as it was billed as "Korean Blade Runner".
It's no Blade Runner but it is a very well done live-action near-future paramilitary anime/manga. So maybe I'll call it Korean live-action Ghost in the ShellMany of the themes and science-fiction givens much more closely resemble the tropes presented in Ghost in the ( Read more... ) -
Space Truckers
Thumbs way up!
Starts a little slow in the beginning but picks up once the viewer gets the setting, but is cheesy-clever. Not "smart," just clever - which I prefer.
The lead actress is a hotty with a really cute nose and fantastic delts, and the lead actor is none other than Dennis fucking Hopper (say that with me in Pinky's voice. It's too bad ( Read more... ) -
Fido
Zombie movies seem to be back in the mainstream again; 28 days/weeks, an updated Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead...
Fido taps into the retro-50's genre like the Stepford Wives or Bewitched (or the 70's show, &c). Successfully ( Read more... )
