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10.18.05 by Siege @ 2:35 am  Written & Directed by: Joss Whedon Review: Sure it's chock full of cheesy one-liners. And sure you could tell if a character would end up living or dying as soon as you meet them. But what's important is that it kicked ass. Especially for something that was resurrected from the Fox graveyard of shows, most of which suffered from the highly fatal Immediate Fanbase Deficiency Syndrome. Time: 13 seconds. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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10.02.05 by Widge @ 7:13 pm  Film: Written by Neil Gaiman, based on a story by Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean My Advice: Don't miss it. Helena (Leonidas) is a girl with a dilemma. Whereas some kids dream of living in a fantasy circus world, Helena gets it day-in, day-out...and she's bored to death with it. Of course, her mother and father (McKee and Brydon) do run a circus that's basically what would happen if Dave McKean designed a Cirque du Soleil show, so I'm sure just the constant visual stimulation would wear anybody's ass out eventually. But when her mother falls ill, Helena finds herself in a place that's pure, mainlined McKean, which is like Dali illustrating Alice in Wonderland. Helena has to figure out where she is and why she's there before the land she's arrived in is consumed by the darkness and destroyed. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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09.27.05 by Siege @ 5:21 pm  Written by: Luc Besson & Robert Mark Kamen Review: You know the drill. Bring lots of popcorn. Leave the brain at home. Time: 5 seconds. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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09.25.05 by Siege @ 4:23 am  Written & Directed by: Andrew Niccol Review: Of course I'm going to like this movie. It's about guns. And what guns do. The politics are subtle enough that you might think it's only an action flick. But there's also values and other junk like that, too. And as far as the "life of a 7.62" opening sequence goes, if I had an award to give it, I would. Time: 15 seconds. Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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08.26.05 by Widge @ 3:11 am 
Directed by Terry Gilliam My Advice: Matinee. It's the early 19th Century in French Occupied Germany. Two brothers, Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm (Damon and Ledger) make their way across Europe, helping out villagers who are plagued with beasties, witches and spooks of all sorts. Well, sorta. Really they're mining Jacob's knowledge of European folklore and going to where the legends say the beasties, witches and spooks are--because chances are very good they'll find superstitious people there willing to believe anything (like, for example, Kansas) and thus, willing to pay handsomely to have their fears dispatched. Because there are people willing to pay for such services, the Grimms are justified in their minds to relieve the people of the necessary coin. Only what if it's not all just heebee jeebie bullshit? What if there's a forest somewhere in France where Some Really Weird Shit is actually going down? And what if they were...compelled (psst--it involves being on the wrong end of guns) to go there? Categorized as: Movies and Reviews
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