February 2011
7 posts
The Curious Case of Amanda Hocking
Here in the coming months I’m going to spend a bit of time writing about much that has become of the journalistic world as it crashed headlong into the world of the blogosphere. What started with the best of intentions has gone horribly wrong with entire sections of the environment becoming thoroughly unreliable. Today brings us just such an example of what frustrates so many about how ...
AICN: Massawyrm enjoys THE EAGLE
At first glance, many will think that they’ve seen this already, mistaking it for Neil Marshall’s fun, b-movie romp CENTURION. But they aren’t the same film – they’re not even the same story. Instead, I think they would make one hell of a double feature – CENTURION playing beautifully into THE EAGLE. CENTURION is Marshall’s bloody exploration into what happened to the fabled 9th Legion of...
AICN: Massawyrm craves the taste of cold steel and...
I do believe that Adam Sandler’s films are getting progressively worse. At this point I find it hard to tell; like that kid who gets his ass kicked on the playground every god damned day and doesn’t know for sure whether the beating was worse yesterday or the day before. What I do know is that something broke inside of Adam Sandler and somewhere along the line he stopped trying to be a...
AICN: Massawyrm thinks I AM NUMBER FOUR is a big...
A product of James (A MILLION LITTLE PIECES) Frey’s controversial and exploitive fiction factory Full Fathom Five, I AM NUMBER FOUR takes everything you hate about the Hollywood movie-by-committee system and applies it directly to its source material as well. Everything about it is hollow, artificial and uninspired. And in order to wrap your mind around what exactly went wrong here, you have...
Film.com: Broadcast News a Welcome Sight on...
It’s always nice when Criterion pulls out and dusts off one of your deep-fried cinema favorites to give it new life on DVD and Blu-ray, and today is just such a day. James L. Brooks has brought us a number of classics — from television series like Taxi, Rhoda, and Mary Tyler Moore, to films like As Good as it Gets and Terms of Endearment. But for my money, his very best work comes in...
Film.com: Middle Men Is Last Year's Ignored Gem
One of last year’s most tragically ignored films is finally making its way to DVD and Blu-ray. Middle Men is the true story of the guys who changed the Internet forever. No, not the Facebook guys — the guys who wrote a tiny piece of code that allowed people to buy things safely with a credit card over the Internet and put it toward the one thing they knew could make money: ...
Massawyrm really digs Kevin Smith's RED STATE
As has been written numerous times, RED STATE isn’t exactly a horror film, though Kevin Smith certainly thinks it is, having argued rather strongly that the ideas he plays around with in it are truly frightening. Unfortunately, that doesn’t change the fact that, structurally speaking, it simply isn’t one. What he’s made is satire. Pure, straight from the bottle satire. Far too often people...
